Which sensor set is better for monitoring spacecraft subsystems? A geometric answer and its probabilistic generalization (Q2721661)

The thousands of measurements and dozens of windows avialable to each mission controller lead to the problem of window clutter and irrelevance of information. To solve this problem, it is suggested in the paper to select a screen which would give a mission controller the largest amount of information about the flight. For example, sensor readings corresponding to malfunctioning situations form a set \(S-D\), where \(S\) is a set of possible signals \((s_1,s_2,\dots,s_N)\in R^N\) and \(D\) is a set of desirable signals. So, it is necessary to choose a window for which the volume of \(S-D\) is maximum. This approach has some probabilistic generalizations, based on probabilistic distributions, obtained from the previous Space Shuttle missions.