[net.ai] III Seminar on Expert Systems for Fault Diagnosis...

KEDAR-CABELLI@RUTGERS.ARPA (03/15/84)

From:  Smadar <KEDAR-CABELLI@RUTGERS.ARPA>

         [Forwarded from the Rutgers bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]


                                 I I I SEMINAR

          Title:    An Expert System for Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis

          Speaker:  Kathy Abbott

          Date:     Tuesday, March 27, 1984, 1:30-2:30 PM
          Location: Hill Center, Seventh floor lounge

  Kathy  Abbott,  a Ph.D. student in our department, will give an informal talk
describing her research work at NASA.  Here is her abstract:

       The Flight Management Branch  at  NASA/Langley  Research  Center  in
    Hampton,Va.  is exploring the use of AI concepts to aid flight crews in
    managing aircraft systems. Under this research effort, an expert system
    is  being developed to perform on-board fault monitoring and diagnosis.
    Current expert systems technology is insufficient for this application,
    because the flight domain consists of dynamic physical systems and  the
    system  must respond in real time. A frame-based expert system has been
    designed that includes a  frame  associated  with  each  subsystem  and
    sensor  on  the  aircraft.  Among other information, the frames include
    mechanism models of the associated systems that  can  be  used  by  the
    diagnostic expert for hypothesis verification and predictive purposes.