Distributed embedded health assessment of networked instruments

This article presents an applicative architecture based on a solving method for embedded technical health assessment of complex systems. This architecture is defined in order to provide services enabling the evaluation of the health status of complex systems. Diagnostic and prognostic services provide information to the maintenance decision support system that leads to reduce the periods of unavailability and determine if future missions of complex systems can be carried out. The architecture presented in this paper implements distributed diagnostic and prognostic functions using multi-***agent techniques. An example shows the effectiveness of the applicative architecture.