Optronic infrared system with predictive maintenance in terms of the number of cycles before breakdown

摘要

The invention relates to an optronics system equipped with: a detector cooler having a cooling machine, a cryostat, an IR detector placed in the cryostat, and a sensor for measuring the temperature TD of the detector; and a processing card which includes means for servocontrolling the cooling machine according to the temperature TD. The system includes a sensor for sensing the system's internal temperature TS, and the processing card includes means for calculating: the refrigerating time (TMF) based on the temperatures TD and TS, on each“on-off”cycle of the detector cooler, the trend of the drift in the refrigerating time TMF, as a function of the number of“on-off”cycles of the detector cooler, a number of“on-off”cycles of the detector cooler before breakdown as a function of said trend of the drift of the TMF, and means for storing data used in said calculations; these data are aggregated data and not the measurements of temperatures TD and TS, nor said TMFs, in order to limit the size of the storage means.