Patent ID: 7412361

Claim:
An apparatus for prognosticating system performance in a dynamic system influenced by planned human activities, said dynamic system having a state vector and a telemetry subsystem, the apparatus comprising: a processor coupled to said telemetry subsystem and configured to acquire data relating to said state vector from said telemetry subsystem; memory, coupled to said processor, having stored therein mission plan data, said mission plan data comprising at least one plannable element relating to said planned human activities, said at least one plannable element comprising a value having a type and an interval of applicability; a dynamic system simulation core residing in said memory and executable on said processor to form a dynamic system simulation incorporating said mission plan data and said state vector data; a mission planning graphical user interface (GUI) receiving mission plan data and displaying results related to the dynamic system simulation; and a simulation monitor configured to receive data produced by said dynamic system simulation and executable to produce data indicative of problematic behavior of said dynamic system, wherein said data indicative of problematic behavior comprises plan deviation responses.