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

Claim 14:
15. A computer-implemented system for monitoring aircraft system health, the system comprising at least one processor, the system configured to:
obtain fault data indicative of a plurality of fault indications provided by a first plurality of components of an aircraft;
obtain condition indicators representative of respective operational conditions of a second plurality of components of the aircraft;
fuse the fault data with the condition indicators to form a comprehensive data set;
identify one or more root causes of the plurality of fault conditions based at least in part on the comprehensive data set;
generate one or more alerts that describe the one or more root causes of the plurality of fault conditions; and
provide the one or more alerts for display to maintenance personnel associated with the aircraft, and
wherein in identifying the one or more root causes of the plurality of fault conditions, the one or more processors are configured to:
identify 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;
increase 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, and wherein the confidence score is increased for each instance by an amount that is proportional to a degree to which the evidence indicates the potential cause;
determine 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, output 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.