Frontier Technology Selected for Award to Develop Health Management Tools for Rocket Engine Turbomachinery
Frontier Technology, Inc (FTI) has been selected by the Air Force Research Laboratory for award of a Phase II SBIR contract to develop tools to better understand the performance characteristics and health state of liquid rocket engine turbomachinery. The goal of this effort is the ability to provide real-time health management/monitoring of these devices with an objective of reducing turnaround time, increasing availability and minimizing mission aborts or catastrophic failures. FTI will combine principles of real-time prognostic health management with Linear Engine Models to detect real-time system status and accurately identify failure sources and recommended actions. Using data from actual flights and rocket engine turbomachinery simulators, FTI will develop, demonstrate and validate tools so that experiments in sub-scale or full-scale hardware can be performed and compared to model predictions. This effort extends FTI’s research into prognostic assessment of real-time, dynamic systems and the ability of health management technology to reduce turnaround time for reusable systems.
Frontier Technology, Inc. is an engineering and information technology company helping customers to make informed decisions that improve their business operations and increase their bottom line. FTI offers Decision Management Products and Services for business analysis and Sensor Data Products and Solutions for operations analysis. The company has offices in Goleta, CA. Colorado Springs, CO, Dayton, OH, Beverly MA and Anniston, AL.
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