Print Email Facebook Twitter A Systematic Literature Review of Predictive Maintenance for Defence Fixed-Wing Aircraft Sustainment and Operations Title A Systematic Literature Review of Predictive Maintenance for Defence Fixed-Wing Aircraft Sustainment and Operations Author Scott, Michael J. (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University) Verhagen, W.J.C. (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University) Bieber, M.T. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Marzocca, Pier (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University) Date 2022 Abstract In recent decades, the increased use of sensor technologies, as well as the increase in digitalisation of aircraft sustainment and operations, have enabled capabilities to detect, diagnose, and predict the health of aircraft structures, systems, and components. Predictive maintenance and closely related concepts, such as prognostics and health management (PHM) have attracted increasing attention from a research perspective, encompassing a growing range of original research papers as well as review papers. When considering the latter, several limitations remain, including a lack of research methodology definition, and a lack of review papers on predictive maintenance which focus on military applications within a defence context. This review paper aims to address these gaps by providing a systematic two-stage review of predictive maintenance focused on a defence domain context, with particular focus on the operations and sustainment of fixed-wing defence aircraft. While defence aircraft share similarities with civil aviation platforms, defence aircraft exhibit significant variation in operations and environment and have different performance objectives and constraints. The review utilises a systematic methodology incorporating bibliometric analysis of the considered domain, as well as text processing and clustering of a set of aligned review papers to position the core topics for subsequent discussion. This discussion highlights state-of-the-art applications and associated success factors in predictive maintenance and decision support, followed by an identification of practical and research challenges. The scope is primarily confined to fixed-wing defence aircraft, including legacy and emerging aircraft platforms. It highlights that challenges in predictive maintenance and PHM for researchers and practitioners alike do not necessarily revolve solely on what can be monitored, but also covers how robust decisions can be made with the quality of data available. Subject aircraftdecision-makingdefencediagnosticsmaintenancepredictiveprognosticsuncertainty To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9634fc62-d95f-47f3-b32b-5a6ee93041c1 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/s22187070 ISSN 1424-8220 Source Sensors, 22 (18) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 Michael J. Scott, W.J.C. Verhagen, M.T. Bieber, Pier Marzocca Files PDF sensors_22_07070_v2.pdf 1.43 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9634fc62-d95f-47f3-b32b-5a6ee93041c1/datastream/OBJ/view