Generic integrated PHM/controller system

The Air Force is developing a wide variety of technologies for aircraft propulsion system health management (PHM). Unfortunately, many promising new sensor technologies and new algorithms cannot easily be deployed for on-wing demonstration particularly for UAV health monitoring and control applications. We are developing a generic hardware and software system to support the creation and fielding of low cost, integrated engine PHM/control systems. This system is based on an AMD Geode processor, a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA and the VxWorkstrade real-time operating system. The MathWorks Simulinktrade and Xilinx System Generatortrade are used for algorithm development and validation of the integrated system operation. This system will also facilitate integration of third party PHM algorithms. Presented here is a description of the hardware and software platform being developed to host the PHM/control system and its application to the AIIDED UAV demonstrator