Current Automated Test Equipment (ATE) often results in erroneous fault detection due to anomalies not foreseen by ATE engineers. NST proposes an innovative remote testing capability to stimulate, capture, monitor, and distribute SUT avionics data to/from FOL logistics centers to/from a remote body of SUT experts (SPO, Intermediate Level, Prime Vendor). The innovative approach utilizes network centric communications, an Automated Test Mark-up Language (ATML) extension for logistics, SUT specific XML data dictionaries with published schemas, a publish/subscribe data server to distribute the data dictionaries and SUT data to remote clients, COTS hardware, and NSTÂ’s REmote Monitoring and Operational Test Evaluation Stimulator (REMOTES) software to provide remote Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC testing capability. One or more SUT experts, at various remote locations, can be immersed within the test environment to monitor the SUT performance using any COTS java-enabled platform as well as inject test stimuli. With remote testing capability, many false positive fault detections may be isolated and possibly repaired at the field level and returned to service at a significant cost savings.
Keywords: Remote Ate, Net-Centric, Atml, Open System, Vdats, Gig, Mil-Std-1553, Arinc
