Development of expert system for the design of airborne equipment

Abstract

This work focuses on the construction of an expert system shell for airborne equipment design. Traditional expert systems are constructed using a single monolithic software program for a specific application. Since the airborne equipment design is critical & complex, it demands the use of expert system technology. Since present aircrafts take in different equipments for different purposes, it is not feasible to think in terms of independently developed monolithic expert system program for each equipment. To overcome these problems, we have designed and developed a complex competent system i.e., a generic component based expert system for airborne equipment design. The main advantage of the component-based approach is that, the knowledge base is not hard coded and these components can be coupled with any domain-specific knowledge bases. The expert system with its expertise knowledge is made to guide the designer by providing design guidelines & testing procedures for the desired equipment. The expert system also audits the design and provides guidelines to modify & to improve the design.