Integrated vehicle health management in the aviation field

Integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) technology focused on the aircraft-level fault diagnosis, prediction and health management. The application of IVHM is the inevitable development trend of the next generation aircraft CBM, it is important for aircraft to improve security, maintainability, performance and reduce the operation cost. This paper based on a large number of documents, describes the meanings and the development process of IVHMS, analyzes the difficulties and the key technologies of IVHM research. At the end of the paper, the technical development prospect was discussed. The author hopes that readers have a more detailed understanding of IVHM state-of-art and the future direction.