An American knowledge base in England - Alternate implementations of an expert system flight status monitorA joint activity between the Dryden Flight Research Facility of the NASA Ames Research Center (Ames-Dryden) and the Royal Aerospace Establishment (RAE) on knowledge-based systems has been agreed. Under the agreement, a flight status monitor knowledge base developed at Ames-Dryden has been implemented using the real-time AI (artificial intelligence) toolkit MUSE, which was developed in the UK. Here, the background to the cooperation is described and the details of the flight status monitor and a prototype MUSE implementation are presented. It is noted that the capabilities of the expert-system flight status monitor to monitor data downlinked from the flight test aircraft and to generate information on the state and health of the system for the test engineers provides increased safety during flight testing of new systems. Furthermore, the expert-system flight status monitor provides the systems engineers with ready access to the large amount of information required to describe a complex aircraft system.
Document ID
19900043664
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Butler, G. F. (Royal Aerospace Establishment Farnborough, United Kingdom)
Graves, A. T. (Royal Aerospace Establishment Farnborough, United Kingdom)
Disbrow, J. D. (PRC System Services Edwards, CA, United States)
Duke, E. L. (NASA Flight Research Center Edwards, CA, United States)