Open Systems Capabilities and Experience with the Integrated Vehicle Health Management System

The Integrated Vehicle Health Management System (IVHMS) fielded with the Army UH-60M Black Hawk provides drivetrain diagnostics, rotor track and balance, exceedance, operational usage, engine performance, bearing monitoring, structural regime recognition, cockpit voice and flight data recording functionality. As with the systems predecessor, the Integrated Diagnostics Health and Usage Management System (IMD-HUMS), this vehicle health management system was developed with an open system architecture which supports third party technology insertion. This capability includes insertion of technology developed by other vendors internal and external to the various subsystems within the IVHMS product boundary. This paper presents an overview of the open systems architecture embedded within the current generation of Goodrich Corporation vehicle health products, interfaces available for third party technology insertion in the Integrated Health Management Unit (IVHMU) and experiences of the open systems integrator for the UH-60M, Sikorsky, with the IVHMU opens systems interface.