Mission Reasoner System and Method

A system for automation of flight functions across an aircraft cockpit, comprising:

• a plurality of modules onboard an aircraft, the plurality of modules configured:
• 1) for a real time function during a mission and 2) to communicate with a plurality of architecture types, the plurality of modules including each of:
• a mission planning module configured for planning the mission;
• a mission execution module including an execution command of the mission and a phase of mission analysis;
• a human machine interface (HMI) onboard the aircraft;
• a mission assessment module including a mission health assessment;
• a mission experience module;
• and
• a vehicle health system configured for monitoring at least one subsystem onboard the aircraft, the vehicle health system including a multi-vehicle health interface configured for monitoring a vehicle status of a plurality of vehicles offboard the aircraft;
• a controller operatively coupled with each of the plurality of modules;
• a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the controller, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored therein that, in response to execution by the controller, cause the controller to:
• receive the execution command of the mission and a mission execution status from the mission execution module;
• receive a phase of mission from the mission assessment module;
• receive, from the vehicle health system, 1) a subsystem status of the at least one subsystem onboard the aircraft and 2) the vehicle status of at least one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles offboard the aircraft;
• determine 1) a subsystem degraded status of the at least one subsystem onboard the aircraft based on the received subsystem status and 2) a vehicle degraded status of at least one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles offboard the aircraft based on the received vehicle status;
• correlate each of the subsystem degraded status and the vehicle degraded status with the phase of mission;
• determine a probability of mission success based on the correlation;
• determine at least one predictive decision aid based on 1) the subsystem degraded status, 2) the vehicle degraded status, and 3) the phase of mission, and 4) the probability of mission success, the at least one predictive decision aid configured to mitigate the subsystem degraded status and the vehicle degraded status on the probability of mission success, the at least one predictive decision aid one of:
• a subsystem procedure onboard the aircraft, a mission go of the mission, at least one mission retask of the mission, and a mission no go of the mission;
• execute the at least one predictive decision aid one of:
• onboard the aircraft and offboard the aircraft;
• communicate the at least one predictive decision aid to each of the plurality of modules during the real time function;
• and
• present the at least one predictive decision aid via the HMI to one of:
• an operator and a supervisor of the aircraft.