An Integrated Model-Based Diagnostic and Prognostic Framework

Systems health monitoring is essential in guar- anteeing the safe, efficient, and correct opera- tion of complex engineered systems. Diagnosis, which consists of detection, isolation and identi- fication of faults; and prognosis, which consists of prediction of the remaining useful life of com- ponents, subsystems, or systems; constitute sys- tems health monitoring. This paper presents an integrated model-based diagnostic and prognos- tic framework, where we make use of a com- mon modeling paradigm to model both the nom- inal and faulty behavior in all aspects of systems health monitoring. We illustrate our approach us- ing a simulated propellant loading system that in- cludes tanks, valves, and pumps.