An Extensible Architecture for Avionics Sensor Health Assessment Using DDS

1. Infotech@Aerospace 19 - 22 August 2013 Boston, Massachusetts Your systems. Working as one. An Extensible Architecture for Avionics Sensor Health Assessment Using DDS Sumant Tambe, Ph.D. Senior Software Research Engineer Real-Time Innovations, Inc. 12/3/2013 Acknowledgement: This research is funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Dayton, OH under Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract # FA8650-11-C-1054. Manuscript approved for publication by WPAFB: PA Approval Number: 88ABW-2013-3209.

3. Why NASA Uses RTI Connext DDS • NASA was looking for a software architecture and communications infrastructure that enabled reliable, standards-based messaging between the International Space Station and Earth. • NASA relied on the RTI Connext DDS solution because of its ability to tolerate time delay and loss of signal. • A common, flexible, interoperable data communications interface that would readily integrate across each robot’s disparate applications and operating systems. 12/3/2013 © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 3

4. Data-Centric Architecture of DDS Sensor Health Assessment Airborne Sensor DataWriter publish DDS Global Data Space Sensor ID Airborne Sensor 12.35 35.45 0x2 1.34 6.78 ID Roll 10 35.5 35.5 DataReader -45 10.1 subscribe Yaw 0x4 Airborne Sensor Pitch 0x3 DataWriter DataReader Velocity Y 0x1 publish Velocity X subscribe -30 subscribe publish DataReader DataWriter 12/3/2013 © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 4

6. Context: Cyber Situational Awareness • Enterprise Security Situational Awareness • Sensor Health Management Security Situational Awareness Sensor Health Management Goal Situation (Attack) recognition, comprehension, projection Fault Detection, Isolation, Mitigation Sensors E.g., Host-based and network intrusion detection systems (OSSEC, Snort, Ganglia), malware detectors, firewalls, operating system, etc. E.g., Accelerometer, fuel-flow sensors, altimeter, speedometer, etc. Input to Analysis Events and Alerts: log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, realtime alerting and active response Sensor readings, software status signals, software quality signals, operating system information Analysis Techniques Complex Event Processing, Classification (Naïve Bayes, SVM, linear classifiers), clustering (Kmeans), pattern matching etc. Bayesian Networks, Hybrid Bayesian, Timed Fault Propagation Graphs (TFPG), Tools/Librari es R, Weka Smile and Genie Visualization Histograms, heat maps, time series Time series 12/3/2013 © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 6

8. Cyber Health Analysis of Airborne Sensors Propulsion Comms Engine Electrical Navigation (formerly Predator B) Mechanical Payload STANAG 4586 Message #1101: Subsystem Status Report 0 = No Status; 1 = Nominal; 2 = Caution; 3 = Warning; 4 = Emergency; 5 = Failed

9. Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Visualization Sensor Health Estimates BeagleBone Bayesian Network Orientation Sensor (IMU) Sensor Health Analysis using Bayesian Network Pitch/Roll/Yaw updates over TTL UART1 EngineOperatingStates Smile library Simulated UAV Engine Data (STANAG 4586) DDS Simulated MQ-9 Reaper UAV 12/3/2013 © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 9

10. Flight Simulator • Flight Simulator – E.g., Flight-Sim , X-Plane – Realistic aerodynamic simulation – Large number of model planes including UAVs • E.g., GD MQ-9 Reaper – Simulates sensor failures • E.g., Engine fire • Using Simulator data – Publish using DDS – Drive the Bayesian Network – Inject artificial failure to evaluate BaysNet 12/3/2013 © 2012 RTI • COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL 10

11. Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation using Orientation Sensors • Hardware Description – Beaglebone Rev A5 (700 MHz, 256 MB RAM) – CHR-6dm AHRS Orientation Sensor – Communication over TTL (3.3V) UART at 115200 Baud – Onboard Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) produces yaw, pitch, and roll angle estimates 12/3/2013 BeagleBone with CHR-6dm (above) CHR-6dm orientation Sensor (below) © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 11

12. Sensor Health Analysis Using Bayesian Networks • Bayesian Network based on STANAG 4586 • Sensor dependencies are modeled as an acyclic graphs • Can learn the structure and parameters from raw data • Each node has a probability distribution function with respect to its parents • Raw values of sensor readings are discretized and plugged in • Health nodes (H_*) give instantaneous probability of sensor being faulty – – Health Nodes Sensor Nodes A real value between 0 to 1 A value above or below a threshold trigger an alert 12/3/2013 © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 12

13. IMU-in-the-loop Simulation (Failure Scenarios) 1 Sub-Scenario #1 High Engine Thrust Replay Starts [0:00] Replay Ends [5:00] (Change Pitch and Roll Physically) 2 Replay Starts [0:00] Sub-Scenario #2 Very Low Engine Thrust @ [1:30] (Change Pitch and Roll Physically) Engine Catches Fire [0:57] 12/3/2013 Very Low Engine Thrust [1:30] © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. Replay Ends [5:00] 13

14. Extensibility Facilitates System Evolution • Evolution – Hardware evolves  Software evolves  Data-types evolve – Evolved system components must continue to communicate with unevolved components – E.g., 2d point (X, Y) evolves to 3d point (X, Y, Z) – New radar that produces 3d points must work with old display that expects 2d • Solution: OMG Extensible and Dynamic Topic Types Specification struct EngineOperatingStates { double timestamp; string vehicleId; //@key long engineStatus; double engineSpeed; double enginePower; double exhaustGasTemperature; double engineBodyTemperature; double outputPower; long fireDetectionSensor; };// Extensibility(EXTENSIBLE) 12/3/2013 struct EngineOperatingStatesSensorsHealth { double p_engineSpeedSensor_good; double p_engineSpeedSensor_bad; double p_exhaustGasTempSensor_good; double p_exhaustGasTempSensor_bad; double p_fireDetectionSensor_good; double p_fireDetectionSensor_bad; . . . };// Extensibility(EXTENSIBLE) © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 14

15. Take Home Points • Bayesian Networks – A flexible and capable platform for fault detection and diagnosis – Fine-grain fault detection within a subsystem and across subsystems – Large number of COTS tools • RTI Connext DDS – Has small footprint • Runs on a ARM processors (700 MHz, 256MB RAM) – Has low latency • Supports hardware-in-the-loop simulation as well as Smart Systems – Standards-based support for system evolution 12/3/2013 © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 15

16. Future Work 1. Expanded Cyber Situational Awareness – Using independent ground-based sensors 2. Integrate portable and truly interoperable airborne software components – Use RTI Transport Services Segment (TSS) implementation 3. Semantic Interoperability – – 12/3/2013 Use UAS Control Segment (UCS) Protocol Interoperability using DDS (RTPS) © 2013 Real-time Innovations, Inc. 16

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