Research Article

Interface Data Modeling to Detect and Diagnose Intersystem Faults for Designing and Integrating System of Systems

Table 5

Overall design of tests during system design and integration phases.

SDLCTest no.When
(yy.mm)
Test siteSubsystems of local interfacesObjectiveTest period

System design phaseTest115.03At seaEight sensor and one control systemsTo train for detecting a surface target and evaluate target motion analysis72 hours
Test215.05At seaEight sensor and one control systems72 hours
Test315.09At the harborOne additional control systemTo train command and control for underwater weapon engagement6 hours
Test415.12At seaEight sensor and one control systemsTo measure accuracy of passive sonars to detect a surface target72 hours
Test516.08At seaEight sensor and one control systemsTo acquire navigation data72 hours
Test616.11At seaEight sensor and one control systemsTo measure underwater radiation noise72 hours
Test716.11At seaEight sensor and one control systemsTo measure self-noise of sonar systems72 hours
Test817.04At seaEight sensor and one control systems72 hours
System integration phaseTest918.01At the harborFour sensor systemsTo evaluate systems integration6 hours

yy and mm in (yy.mm) mean year and month, respectively. Subsystems in the fourth column are connected to local proxies such as the DIS, the integrated management system, or the signal processing system. These tests are extension from our previous study [12].