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ORACLE open world 2015

Laurent PELTIERS
Jean-Marc WATTECANT

Big Data in Airbus

Flight Test and
Integration Center

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Some figures about AIRBUS

74000 employees over mainly 4 countries (more than 1000 in the US)
Revenues (2013) 42,000 million / EBIT 1,710 million

8121 aircrafts in service operated by more

than 400 companies

Largest civil aircraft: the double deck A380

629 aircrafts delivered in 2014

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Flight & Integration test center : our place in A/C development

A/C
A/C certified!
certified!
Entry into
concept

MG3

Auth. to
Offer

Entry into
Definition

MG4.2

MG4.1

End of
Concept

MG5

Entry into
Production

MG6

Freeze of
Definition

MG7

Concept
~24 months

Entry into
FAL

First
Flight

Entry into
service

MG9

MG11

MG13

Integration Tests
Definition

Flight Tests

Data for Manufacturing

~24 months
Production
6 Year Development lead time

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Assembly line

Ramp Up

Test
Phase

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Flight & Integration test center: our mission

Design office & program domains

Tests definition

Aircraft certification
Flight &Integration test center

Tests preparation

Ground or flight tests

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Tests reports

Tests analysis

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Evolution of data collected

Parameters #

x50
670 000
000 parameters
parameters
670
450 TB
TB archived
archived
450
320 000
000 parameters
parameters
320
150 TB
TB archived
archived
150
14 000
000 parameters
parameters
14
12,8 TB
TB archived
archived
12,8

Data archived

x50

12 000
000 parameters
parameters
12
8,5 TB archived
AMPEX 28 tracks
8 GB

SONY AIT 2/3

50/100 GB

1987

1992

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SCSI hard disk

300 GB

2005

SSD hard disk

700 GB

2013

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Why Big data ? - Volume Forecast

FT data volume production forecast (w/o video)
- GigaBytes per quarter -

A lot of restore up to 10 years after

60,000
Simu NEO
50,000

40,000

Simu A350
Simu
A400M
A350-1000

30,000

NEO
A350-900

20,000
A340

10,000

A320
A400M

0
Q1-13
Q2-13
Q3-13
Q4-13
Q1-14
Q2-14
Q3-14
Q4-14
Q1-15
Q2-15
Q3-15
Q4-15
Q1-16
Q2-16
Q3-16
Q4-16
Q1-17
Q2-17
Q3-17
Q4-17
Q1-18
Q2-18
Q3-18
Q4-18

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A380

Concurrent access
High volume management

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Big data project: One year project

Start:feb
2014
RFI/RFP:
Q3 2013

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Validation:
october
2014

EIS:
january
2015

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Big data project: the scope of the first step

Acquire

Raw data

Current tools
compatibility
Organize Data triggering

Analyse

Decide

Machine learning

Discovery tools

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No functional impact for the user

Enhancements :
Less overhead to get the data
Full campaign on-line

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Main challenges ?
Big data appliance
noSQL database
HADOOP cluster

Large time series

Injection by burst
Up to 4 flights 2 times a day

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Current status

4 aircrafts
70000 parameters / aircrafts
700h of flights

5 billions of events
15% of the disk capacity

Big Data Appliance X4-2

6 nodes noSQL
6 nodes HADOOP

50% of the NEO processing use the appliance

Time saving for multiflights analysis

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Next steps: processing

Descriptive analysis:
Complex event detection
Wide correlation between parameters

Predictive analysis:
Sensor failure
Anomalies database

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Next steps: Vizualisation

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AIRBUS Flight and Integration Test Centre : our data

processing view
Processing HMI

Full campaign
on-line

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Complex event detection

Time correlation for diag
Machine learning algo

Data mining tool

Results storage
Flight Tests data
lake

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Big Data application : Improve Data retrieval

Save flight hours
Easy search will be generalized
searchautopiloton&altitude>30000ft&Mn>0.8&bank>5then
andplottheverticalloadfactor

Opportunities to bridge with other database (configuration, logs,)

Compare versions in the frame of incremental development

A320 :1988

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Sharklet 2012

NEO 2015

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Big Data application : Perform Data re-use

Increase system design maturity
use the data for design verification prior implementation in avionic
software (robustness)

Continuous detection of anomalies on the whole campaign

Tuning and re-launch surveillance algorithms
Patterns recognition out of the usual enveloppe

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Big Data application : Accelerate Test Analysis

Enhance the analysis through statistical tools
Correlation analysis:
eg:longitudinaloscillationA380specificflightneededtounderstand
therootcause
No stimulation
Mn=0.85

No stimulation
Mn=0.85->0.8

Self learning and clustering capability

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stimulation
Mn=0.85

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