Reusable Software for Autonomous Diagnosis of Complex Systems

A software system designed to provide a purely signal-based diagnosis of virtually any time-varying system has been developed. This software is part of an overall concept called “Beacon-based Exception Analysis for Multimissions,” or BEAM. This concept provides for real-time autonomous diagnostics and prognostics of virtually any complex system (e.g., intelligent spacecraft or advanced aircraft) by use of software executed on an embedded computer.