ModelQuest System Validator

MarketMiner, Inc. (former AbTech Corporation)

Charlottesville, VA

ModelQuest System Validator (SV) is an automated flight control system (FCS) system validation product for the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV). System validation is being accomplished by computing overplots of hundreds of simulations for insignificant and significant anomalies with a truth model (i.e., comparing new cases with previously established truth cases). Statistical network overplot analysis models automatically identified important differences between the truth model and an actual or hardware-in-the-loop simulated FCS. This is expected to substantially reduce the time required to validate new control systems.

• Prototype development completed and delivered to DFRC (funding amount $599,000).
• Substantially reduces costs associated with manual inspection of numerous variables for each FCS simulation run
• Automates the generation of system validation and diagnostic models based on simulations of normal and anomalous conditions.

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• The software was initially developed for NASA DFRC to assist system engineers in validating an automated research flight-control system (RFCS) for the F-18 HARV. MQ SV is applicable to flight control systems, engines, manufacturing processes, medical signal processing, and mechanical equipment for:

Validation of new and modified systems and simulations
• System level diagnostics (anomaly detection, isolation, prediction)
• Comparative signal analysis (satellite telemetry, financial time-series and medical diagnostics [e.g., EKG analysis], applications.
• The technology developing during this program is also being used by the NASA JSF (Telemetry Expert Analyst & Monitor) and Air Force Research Laboratory (Satellite Telemetry Anomaly Resolution).

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