BACKGROUND

The invention relates generally to monitoring and controlling electro-mechanical systems. In particular, the invention relates to automated sensing of measurable parameters and setting controls of inputs for systems such as guns, energy storage systems, motors, generators, turbines, pumps and pulsed power release devices.

All branches of the United States military rely on a variety of electrical and mechanical systems to perform their duties. Ensuring normal operation is imperative for high-cost or critical Navy systems in order to protect the fitness or “health” of its fleet. Currently, many of these systems rely on scheduled maintenance, hardware inspections, and manual analysis of data collected from the system of interest.

In a scenario where the warfighter is engaging a threat, humans also must quickly decide whether to continue operating the system of interest in a degraded state of fitness once damage occurs, or to terminate (i.e., shutdown) operations and rely on another system to counter the threat. All of these actions rely on human operations, decisions, and interactions, which have been repeatedly shown to be unreliable by the various mishaps and tragedies reported in the news on a yearly basis.

SUMMARY

Conventional system monitoring techniques yield disadvantages addressed by various exemplary embodiments of the present invention. In particular, various exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented system for monitoring an electro-mechanical device. The system includes a sensor, a data acquisition receiver, and an analysis processor. The sensor measures a parameter of the device as an analog signal. The data acquisition receiver converts the analog signal into a digital signal. The analysis processor assigns the signal data to a condition state responsive to an action mode to control the device.

