Patent ID: 11922738
Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS TALERIS LIMITED
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring aircraft system health, the method comprising:
obtaining, by one or more computing devices, fault data indicative of a plurality of fault indications provided by a first plurality of components of an aircraft;
obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, condition indicators representative of respective operational conditions of a second plurality of components of the aircraft;
fusing, by the one or more computing devices, the fault data with the condition indicators to form a comprehensive data set;
identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more root causes of the plurality of fault conditions based at least in part on the comprehensive data set;
generating, by the one or more computing devices, one or more alerts that describe the one or more root causes of the plurality of fault conditions; and
providing, by the one or more computing devices, the one or more alerts for display to maintenance personnel associated with the aircraft, and
wherein the identifying, by the one or more computing devices, the one or more root causes of the plurality of fault conditions comprises:
identifying, by the one or more computing devices, each instance the comprehensive data set evidences a potential cause of the plurality of fault conditions, the comprehensive data set being supplemented over time with additional fault data or additional condition indicator data;
increasing, by the one or more computing devices, a confidence score associated with the potential cause for each instance the comprehensive data set evidences the potential cause, wherein increasing the confidence score indicates an increased likelihood that the potential cause is an identified cause of the plurality of fault indications;
determining, by the one or more computing devices, after the confidence score is increased, whether the confidence score exceeds a threshold value; and
in response to the confidence score exceeding the threshold value, outputting, by the one or more computing devices, an alert that describes the potential cause as the identified cause of the fault indications, the alert being one of the one or more alerts.