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.