Telemetry analysts monitoring flight tests must perform red-line checking and make rapid decisions in realtime based upon data that is often contaminated with noisy or missing values. Analyst experience is critical to success. It would be highly beneficial to provide intelligent aids to those analysts. These aids must have the content of a carefully crafted expert system, but operate in the real world of noisy data and high data rates. The goal of this SBIR is to develop such a system for missile test monitoring: the Telemetry Real Time Intelligent Monitoring System (TRIMS). Aura Systems specializes in intelligent, realtime telemetry systems, and has a toolkit that can be used to craft a TRIMS solution. The center of this toolkit is the Aura Linkage server (TM) front end which performs rapid data filtering and anomaly detection at realtime data rates. Linkage Server communicates at a symbolic level with a sophisticated expect system shell in which the diagnosis of red-line conditions is performed. Rich graphical displays will be used. Aura proposes to demonstrate in Phase I its unique architecture for realtime intelligent monitoring using missile data from the Pacific Missile Test Center, and to expand in Phase 2 into a full TRIMS workstation.
