MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050865 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 21, for 'autonomous health management system and method for a spacecraft.'
Inventor(s) include S. Gayathri Devi; B. Natarajan; Mridul Gupta; Saideep Keshar; and Kartik Tyagi.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An autonomous health management system (100) for a spacecraft (102) includes one or more sensors (104) to monitor operational data associated with a plurality of subsystems (108) of spacecraft (102), a plurality of processing modules (106) acquires operational data from sensors (104) and generate processed operational data representative of operational states of subsystems (108), and exchange processed operational data among processing modules (106) via at least one communication network (110) to facilitate distributed processing, and a centralized control module (112) operatively coupled to processing modules (106) to receive and evaluate processed operational data via a monitoring and analysis module (218), detect anomalies indicative of fault conditions, identify at least one faulty processing module (106) or subsystem (108) via a diagnostic module (220) to isolate a fault source, and execute, via a recovery module (222), at least one corrective action to maintain spacecraft (102) operational continuity without requiring real-time ground intervention."
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