Aircraft maintenance message prediction
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsDavid J. Huber, Nigel D. Stepp, Tsai-Ching Lu
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for maintaining a vehicle, such as an aircraft. A plurality of maintenance messages generated during operation of the vehicle are stored to form a plurality of stored maintenance messages. The stored maintenance messages are filtered to remove from the stored maintenance messages those maintenance messages that are correlated to minimum equipment list actions to form filtered stored maintenance messages. A predicted maintenance message is generated from the filtered stored maintenance messages by applying a machine learning algorithm to the filtered stored maintenance messages. The predicted maintenance message may be used to perform a maintenance operation on the vehicle.
Claims20
A method of maintaining an aircraft, comprising:
- storing a plurality of maintenance messages generated during a plurality of legs of flights of the aircraft to form a plurality of stored maintenance messages;
- generating a predicted maintenance message from the plurality of stored maintenance messages;
- and
- using the predicted maintenance message to perform a maintenance operation on the aircraft.
A method of maintaining a vehicle, comprising:
- storing a plurality of maintenance messages generated during operation of the vehicle to form a plurality of stored maintenance messages;
- filtering the stored maintenance messages to remove from the stored maintenance messages those maintenance messages that are correlated to minimum equipment list actions to form filtered stored maintenance messages;
- generating a predicted maintenance message from the filtered stored maintenance messages by applying a machine learning algorithm to the filtered stored maintenance messages;
- and
- using the predicted maintenance message to perform a maintenance operation on the vehicle.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a real-time event storer configured to store a plurality of maintenance messages generated during operation of a vehicle to form a plurality of stored maintenance messages;
- a maintenance message predictor configured to generate a predicted maintenance message from the plurality of stored maintenance messages;
- and
- a predicted maintenance message deliverer configured to send the predicted maintenance message to maintenance personnel for use by the maintenance personnel to perform a maintenance operation on the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.