Inertial navigation system intelligent diagnostic expert (INSIDE)

Author

Attias, Lori ; Sveitis, Joseph

Author_Institution

McDonnell Aircraft Co., St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

21-25 May 1990

Firstpage

1250

Abstract

A troubleshooting expert system has been designed to provide repair and diagnostic information for aircraft inertial navigation systems (INS). The inertial navigation system intelligent diagnostic expert (INSIDE) is used to diagnose faults in an INS system, and to train new operators on the troubleshooting of an INS system, thus freeing up the experienced engineer for other projects. INSIDE leads a new engineer through the conventional fault paths and step-by-step through repairs, thus alleviating the primary training and greatly diminishing the part-time training. The IN intelligent diagnostic expert uses a fault path algorithm. The fault tree is traversed by a rules-based inference engine written in the Level 5 expert system shell. It is comprised of one main, executive knowledge base and five more detailed knowledge bases. The system supports graphics, and interfaces with a BASIC program to perform simple, pertinent computations on the request of the operator

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; automatic test equipment; computer aided instruction; expert systems; fault location; inertial navigation; training; BASIC; Level 5 expert system shell; aircraft inertial navigation systems; executive knowledge base; fault path algorithm; fault tree; graphics; intelligent diagnostic expert; repair; rules-based inference engine; training; troubleshooting expert system; Aerospace engineering; Aircraft navigation; Aircraft propulsion; Diagnostic expert systems; Engines; Fault trees; Graphics; Inertial navigation; Inference algorithms; Intelligent systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1990. NAECON 1990., Proceedings of the IEEE 1990 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1990.112950

Filename

112950