Visualization System for Aircraft Diagnostic Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for failure analysis in complex systems, such as aircraft with highly-integrated architectures, fail to effectively identify and visually present all involved systems or the root cause of malfunctions, leading to difficulties in understanding cascading effects and facilitating diagnostic procedures.
Innovation Solution
A visualization and diagnostic analysis system that processes data to identify interested elements within a complex system, generates a 3D visual presentation, and applies visual effects to distinguish these elements, allowing for easier identification of key components and facilitating diagnostic analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual failure analysis is performed by groups of system analysts, then comprehensive diagnostic coverage is achieved, but analysis time and resource requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automated system with visual presentation capabilities as an intermediary between the complex system data and the analysts. This system processes maintenance messages, identifies interested elements, and presents them in a visual format that reduces the manual analysis burden while maintaining comprehensive diagnostic coverage
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of analysts reviewing system data with an automated computational system that uses processors to identify interested elements and generate visual presentations, significantly reducing analysis time while maintaining diagnostic thoroughness
2Loss of information
If complete system data is presented for failure analysis, then all involved systems are visible, but data complexity and difficulty of interpretation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the relevant 'interested elements' from the complete system data based on maintenance messages and diagnostic procedures. This extraction process removes unnecessary information while preserving all diagnostically relevant data, making the information both complete and easy to interpret
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies visual effects specifically to the interested elements within the visual presentation, creating local visual differentiation that draws attention to relevant components without overwhelming the user with uniform complex data presentation throughout the entire system
3Ease of operation
If visual effects are applied to distinguish interested elements, then diagnostic focus is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual effects including color changes to distinguish interested elements from other elements in the visual presentation. This simple visual differentiation technique significantly improves element identification ease without requiring complex system changes, as it operates at the presentation layer rather than the system level
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AI summary
An apparatus is provided for implementation of a system for visualization and diagnostic analysis of a complex system such as an aircraft composed of a plurality of elements. The apparatus may receive and process data for a physical instance of the complex system to identify a maintenance message for the complex system. A diagnostic procedure defined for and associated with the maintenance message, may involve or implicate one or more interested elements of the plurality of elements. The apparatus may generate a visual presentation of at least a portion of the complex system. The visual presentation may be digital media and depict the interested element(s) and one or more other elements of the plurality of elements. And the apparatus may apply a visual effect to the interested element(s) depicted by the visual presentation to distinguish the interested element(s) from the other element(s) depicted by the visual presentation.