Patents by Inventor Robab Safa-Bakhsh

Robab Safa-Bakhsh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10096178
    Abstract: An off-board apparatus is provided for reducing nuisance fault indications from a vehicle. The apparatus is communicably coupled to a vehicle health monitoring (VHM) system, or one or more vehicle systems for at least collecting and communicating data thereto such as data that indicates fault generated by a line replaceable unit of the vehicle in response to a built-in test. The apparatus is also coupleable with a computerized maintenance management system configured to store data that describes a historical condition and maintenance of the vehicle. The apparatus is programmed to determine a probability of validity or invalidity of the fault indication, determine a condition indicator for the signal path based on the LRUs current and historical operational environment, and generate a notification, or output the fault indication for generation of a notification, only in an instance in which the fault indication, with a high probability is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Robab Safa-Bakhsh
  • Publication number: 20180190048
    Abstract: An off-board apparatus is provided for reducing nuisance fault indications from a vehicle. The apparatus is communicably coupled to a vehicle health monitoring (VHM) system, or one or more vehicle systems for at least collecting and communicating data thereto such as data that indicates fault generated by a line replaceable unit of the vehicle in response to a built-in test. The apparatus is also coupleable with a computerized maintenance management system configured to store data that describes a historical condition and maintenance of the vehicle. The apparatus is programmed to determine a probability of validity or invalidity of the fault indication, determine a condition indicator for the signal path based on the LRUs current and historical operational environment, and generate a notification, or output the fault indication for generation of a notification, only in an instance in which the fault indication, with a high probability is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventor: Robab Safa-Bakhsh
  • Patent number: 9691286
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for providing a predicted vehicle track and for providing alerts when two predicted vehicle tracks are closer than a threshold amount. A vehicle intent prediction model is generated based on past instance of tracks for a vehicle operation, known vehicle intent data for the past instances, and contextual factors, such as weather, airline operator, air vehicle type or configuration, day of the week, etc. for the past instances. The vehicle intent prediction model can be generated using one or more machine learning algorithms. A future vehicle trajectory for a current vehicle operation can be output by the vehicle intent prediction model using the current track and existing contextual factors for the current vehicle operation. In the event that two vehicles following their respective predicted vehicle future trajectories would be closer than a threshold distance, an alert can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Ali Bahrami, Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Jun Yuan, Paul C. Parks
  • Patent number: 9489340
    Abstract: An electrical power generation and distribution health monitoring system includes a network of a plurality of nodes included in an electrical system of a vehicle. Each node of the plurality of nodes is synchronized with other nodes of the plurality of nodes. The network is configured to communicate electrical system health data associated with the electrical system to at least one vehicle health reporting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Bruce D. Harmon
  • Publication number: 20160314692
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for providing a predicted vehicle track and for providing alerts when two predicted vehicle tracks are closer than a threshold amount. A vehicle intent prediction model is generated based on past instance of tracks for a vehicle operation, known vehicle intent data for the past instances, and contextual factors, such as weather, airline operator, air vehicle type or configuration, day of the week, etc. for the past instances. The vehicle intent prediction model can be generated using one or more machine learning algorithms. A future vehicle trajectory for a current vehicle operation can be output by the vehicle intent prediction model using the current track and existing contextual factors for the current vehicle operation. In the event that two vehicles following their respective predicted vehicle future trajectories would be closer than a threshold distance, an alert can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Ali BAHRAMI, Robab SAFA-BAKHSH, Jun YUAN, Paul C. PARKS
  • Publication number: 20160103162
    Abstract: A vehicle electrical power flow monitoring system including at least one channel power monitor node corresponding to a respective power distribution channel of a vehicle electrical power system, the at least one channel power monitor node being common to at least another different vehicle monitoring system, and at least one data acquisition node within each power distribution channel, each of the at least one data acquisition node being common to the at least another different vehicle monitoring system and communicably connected to a respective channel power monitor node, and wherein the at least one channel power monitor node is configured to receive electrical power flow data from a corresponding data acquisition node and determine an operating state of the vehicle electrical power system based on the electrical power flow data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Bruce D. Harmon
  • Patent number: 8914149
    Abstract: A platform health monitoring system including an associative memory. The associative memory stores a plurality of known health profiles for a platform. The platform health monitoring system also includes an input device in communication with the associative memory. The input device is configured to receive a current health profile of the platform. The platform health monitoring system also may include a comparator configured to compare, in conjunction with the associative memory, the current health profile with the plurality of known health profile to generate a comparison. The comparator is further configured to generate, based on the comparison and in conjunction with the associative memory, a report on a current health of the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Patrick Neal Harris
  • Patent number: 8843347
    Abstract: A monitoring system, method and computer program product are provided for monitoring the health of a monitored system. The monitoring system may include a receiver module to receive a plurality of sensor data relating to the monitored system and to receive textual data, such as free text, relating to the monitored system. The monitoring system may also include an associative memory to store and process the sensor data and the textual data and to establish associations between at least some of the sensor data and the textual data. Further, the monitoring system may include a dynamic change identification module to identify an instance in which the sensor data represents a dynamic change in condition and a correlation module to identify an instance in which textual data is associated with the sensor data proximate the dynamic change in condition so as to correlate the sensor data and the textual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Patrick Neal Harris
  • Publication number: 20130073259
    Abstract: A monitoring system, method and computer program product are provided for monitoring the health of a monitored system. The monitoring system may include a receiver module to receive a plurality of sensor data relating to the monitored system and to receive textual data, such as free text, relating to the monitored system. The monitoring system may also include an associative memory to store and process the sensor data and the textual data and to establish associations between at least some of the sensor data and the textual data. Further, the monitoring system may include a dynamic change identification module to identify an instance in which the sensor data represents a dynamic change in condition and a correlation module to identify an instance in which textual data is associated with the sensor data proximate the dynamic change in condition so as to correlate the sensor data and the textual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Patrick Harris
  • Publication number: 20110087387
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are present for monitoring a platform. Information from monitoring the platform is received from a sensor network and a number of systems associated with the platform. A plurality of observations is formed from the information. A profile is created from the plurality of observations in which the profile is used to monitor the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robab Safa-Bakhsh, Patrick Neal Harris