Integration of MONSID with CAESAR to be funded through NASA SBIR Award

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Okean Solutions Proposal Summary - Fault Management Analysis Tool For Model Centric Systems Engineering

Technical Abstract

This proposal responds to the need for new technologies to effectively manage and streamline complex FM systems, enable rapid diagnostic model generation and validation, and provide tools to assess FM quality/performance e.g., fault containment regions (FCRs) and false positive/negative (FP/FN) rates. Okean Solutions proposes to improve fault management (FM) system modeling and analysis by integrating their model-based fault management tool/system, called MONSID®, with JPL’s Computer Aided Engineering for Systems Architecture (CAESAR) platform. The innovation will create greater visibility into the FM process and lower the barriers to entry for users who are not FM experts. The combined capability will advance the practice of FM to ultimately decrease labor and schedule costs while ensuring FM system robustness and appropriateness. The main application is FM design and software development. This could also be used in I&T and operations phases to update onboard FM models and in support of recovery operations.

Potential NASA Applications

A MONSID adaptor for CAESAR can support FM development in current and future programs, providing rapid model development and improving HW/SW trade accuracy and efficiency for fault containment, and FM performance analyses. It is applicable to a broad range of NASA missions that leverage model-based systems engineering tools. Such missions include CubeSats (Lunar Flashlight, SunRISE), Trident, Mars Sample Return, and others from near-Earth to interplanetary, risk-adverse, and experimental.