Health monitoring apparatus and method in aeronautic system

• US 9,594,613 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2015
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Hwa Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Manoskey, Joseph D
• Application Number:
  US14/592,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20150278065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 714/26, 714/25, 714/27, 714/38.1, 714/47.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0712 in a virtual computing platform, e.g. logically partitioned systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0739 in a data processing system embedded in automotive or aircraft systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0781 Error filtering or prioritizing based on a policy defined by the user or on a policy defined by a hardware/software module, e.g. according to a severity level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02

Abstract

Provided herein is a health monitoring apparatus that is capable of increasing the reliability and stability of an aviation system, the health monitoring apparatus including a health monitoring manager configured to receive a sensed error from an aeronautic system control apparatus, and to activate one of a process level monitor, a partition level monitor, and a module level monitor according to an error level of the sensed error, and a monitor unit comprising the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that are integrated into one system by a partitioning method, wherein the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that is activated by the health monitoring manager performs error handling and provides an error processing method suitable to the sensed error to the aeronautic system control apparatus.

Claims

1. A health monitoring apparatus in an aeronautic system including an aeronautic system control apparatus and the health monitoring apparatus, the health monitoring apparatus comprising:

at least one hardware processor and a storage;

a health monitoring manager loaded on the at least one hardware processor and configured to receive a sensed error from the aeronautic system control apparatus, and to activate one of a process level monitor, a partition level monitor, and a module level monitor according to an error level of the sensed error; and

a monitor unit loaded on the at least one hardware processor and comprising the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that are integrated into one system by a partitioning method, wherein the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that is activated by the health monitoring manager performs error handling and provides an error processing method suitable to the sensed error to the aeronautic system control apparatus,

wherein the aeronautic system control apparatus and the health monitoring apparatus are separated from each other in the aeronautic system.

2. The health monitoring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the health monitoring manager comprises:

an error level detector configured to determine the error level of the sensed error; and

an error level monitor scheduler configured to activate the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor according to a result of determination by the error level detector.

3. The health monitoring apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the error level detector is configured to determine the error level suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a system health monitoring table where error levels of errors occurring in the aeronautic system are prestored.

4. The health monitoring apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the process level monitor determines the error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a process level health monitoring table where error processing methods for a process level are prestored, when the process level monitor is activated,

the partition level monitor determines the error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a partition level health monitoring table where error processing methods for a partition level are prestored, when the partition level monitor is activated, and

the module level monitor determines the error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a module level health monitoring table where error processing methods for a module level are prestored, when the module level monitor is activated.

5. A health monitoring method in an aeronautic system including an aeronautic system control apparatus and a health monitoring apparatus separated from each other, the method comprising:

activating one of a process level monitor, a partition level monitor, and a module level monitor that are integrated into one system by a partitioning method, according to an error level of a sensed error from the aeronautic system control apparatus; and

determining, by the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that is activated, an error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing error handling.

6. The method according to claim 5,

wherein the activating of the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor comprises:

determining the error level of the sensed error; and

activating the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor according to a result of determination of the error level.

7. The method according to claim 6,

wherein the determining of the error level of the sensed error comprises determining the error level suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a system health monitoring table where error levels of errors occurring in the aeronautic system are prestored.

8. The method according to claim 7,

wherein the determining of the error processing method suitable to the sensed error comprises:

determining the error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a process level health monitoring table where error processing methods for a process level are prestored, when the process level monitor is activated,

determining the error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a partition level health monitoring table where error processing methods for a partition level are prestored, when the partition level monitor is activated, and

determining the error processing method suitable to the sensed error by performing a search in a module level health monitoring table where error processing methods for a module level are prestored, when the module level monitor is activated.