Cyber-Physical Asset Management of Air Vehicle System

Effective asset management (AM) is essential to achieve operational excellence in the context of large complex cyber-physical systems. It involves coordinated activities across all life-cycle stages, including information and service exchange within and between adjacent air operations domains, for effective air operations and collaboration. For enterprises and military air operations AM presuppose information and service exchange between the adjacent air operations domains. Important aspects of aviation AM are Cyber-physical aircraft systems (CPS), which include Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM), CPS models, and Digital Twins (DTs), as central concepts used to predict and optimize asset performance. This paper provides an overview of the aviation AM phenomenology, environment, and challenges, and how they may impact envisioned realisations of effective AM solutions for support of enterprise air vehicle operations. A comprehensive approach is presented, comprising interdependent dimensions of the problem domain, and how they may be integrated into a framework and a platform concept addressing aviation AM needs.