{"title":"Automating the FMEA process","authors":"J. Hunt, C. Price, Mark Lee","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1993.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1993.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a design analysis procedure involving the investigation and assessment of the effects of all possible failure modes on a system. This kind of analysis is of growing importance in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries, where increasingly complex electrical, electronic and mechanical systems are being combined in safety-critical applications. FMEA is an extremely tedious process because it demands detailed and systematic examination of the operation of all aspects of the design. However, this work must be carried out by professional engineers as it requires extensive experience of the domain. These two factors, painstaking work and expert judgment, indicate the great benefits that automated help will provide for design engineers. This paper describes a program which automates the prediction of the effect of failure modes for electrical systems. This is the most challenging task in FMEA and can only be fully achieved by integrating multiple models in a distributed reasoning architecture. The architecture is open-ended, and the paper shows how the program can be extended to encompass the full FMEA process. >","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"10 1","pages":"119-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80280649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model-based system for the classification and analysis of materials","authors":"A. Capelo, L. Ironi, S. Tentoni","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1993.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1993.0014","url":null,"abstract":"To build model-based systems capable of emulating the scientist's or engineer's way of reasoning about a given physical domain requires methods for automating the formulation or selection of a model which adequately captures the knowledge needed for solving a specific problem. To find and exploit such models requires the use and integration of different kinds of knowledge, formalisms and methods. This paper describes a system which aims at reasoning automatically about visco-elastic materials from a mechanical point of view. It integrates both domain-specific and domain-independent knowledge in order to classify and analyse the mechanical behaviour of materials. The classification task is based on qualitative knowledge, whereas the analysis of a material is performed at a quantitative level and is based on numerical simulation. The key ideas of the work are to automatically generate a library of models of ideal materials and their corresponding qualitative responses to standard experiments; to classify an actual material by selecting from within the library a class of models whose simulated qualitative behaviours towards standard loads match the observed behaviours; to identify a quantitative model of the material, and then to analyse the material by simulating its behaviour on any load. Each model in the library is automatically generated in two different forms; at the lowest level, as a symbolic description and, at a mathematical level, as an ordinary differential equation. This paper mainly concentrates on the methods and algorithms of model generation and qualitative simulation. >","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"167 1","pages":"145-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75088491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering Systems with Intelligence: Concepts, Tools and Applications","authors":"R. Mitchell","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1993.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1993.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80461715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Techniques in Computational Learning—an Introduction","authors":"H. Cather","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1993.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1993.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"21 1","pages":"258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82783467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in Design '92","authors":"P. Deasley","doi":"10.1049/ise.1993.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ise.1993.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"37 1","pages":"257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85927965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Device modelling environment: an interactive environment for modelling device behaviour","authors":"C. Low, Y. Iwasaki","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1992.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1992.0012","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a system called the device modeling environment (DME), which helps the user to analyse the behaviour of the device being designed. Given a description of the device design, the DME formulates a behaviour model of the device, analyses its behaviour through simulation, and provides an explanation of the behaviour. The DME can model both continuous and discontinuous physical phenomena. When it detects that the situation has evolved to a point where the original model is no longer applicable, it is able to modify the model and to continue simulation. We describe the representation of physical knowledge, the model formulation and simulation procedure of the DME. Our goal is to make the DME an interactive environment, which can assist designers even at an early stage of the design process by providing immediate feedback about the implications of design decisions.","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"7 1","pages":"115-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74786683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge-based support systems for uncertain complex tasks","authors":"D. O. Williams, J. Boyle","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1992.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1992.0010","url":null,"abstract":"The computer-based support of conceptual and procedural reasoning and of data manipulation is the central theme of this paper. The human conceptual mode of reasoning is supported by a computer-based thesaurus of concepts, and the procedural mode by a hierarchically organised set of specialists operated on by an inference engine. Support for data manipulation is provided by giving the user access to a set of functions for generating models and determining their behaviour. The resulting computer-based system is termed a knowledge-based support system (KBSS), rather than an expert system, because the authors emphasise the need for the computer to support the human's powerful reasoning methods. A KBSS has been developed in the domain of control engineering and is available commercially from Oxford Computer Consultants. >","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"16 1","pages":"87-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89271425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two laws of design","authors":"S. Dasgupta","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1992.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1992.0013","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major aims of design theory is to construct explanatory models that further enhance our understanding of design as a cognitive act. The search for such models raises the question as to whether there are, in fact, laws of design that are valid across the ‘sciences of the artificial’. In this paper, we present what we believe are two such qualitative laws. The ideas embedded in these laws have long been part of the ‘folk theory’ of design. Their main significance as stated here lies in the fact that the laws have been derived systematically from, and are supported by, well known knowledge level constructs; and in the conciseness, unambiguity and testability of their presentation.","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"7 1","pages":"146-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76962814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and synthesis of an intelligent control system based on fuzzy logic and the PID principle","authors":"Peng Wang, D. P. Kwok","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1992.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1992.0014","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis and design of an intelligent control system, based on the fuzzy set theory and the well known PID control principle, are carried out. The structures of fuzzy PID controllers are built up utilising expert heuristics to perform PID control actions. The properties of such controllers are investigated in terms of their nonlinear equivalence, stability analysis and robustness examination. The design procedures for this type of controller are formulated using the linguistic phase-plane approach, and realised by means of the expert system and CAD techniques. The simulation of an experimental heating process regulated by a fuzzy PID controller is presented as a practical example to manifest the correctness and usefulness of the proposed analysis and design methods.","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"22 1","pages":"157-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86682564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Jennings, E. Mamdani, I. Laresgoiti, J. Perez, J. Corera
{"title":"GRATE: a general framework for co-operative problem solving","authors":"N. Jennings, E. Mamdani, I. Laresgoiti, J. Perez, J. Corera","doi":"10.1049/ISE.1992.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ISE.1992.0011","url":null,"abstract":"As the deployment of expert systems has spread into more complex and sophisticated environments, so inherent technological limitations have been observed. As a technique for overcoming this complexity barrier, researchers have started to build systems composed of multiple, cooperating components. These systems tend to fall into two distinct categories: systems which solve a particular problem, such as speech recognition or vehicle monitoring, and systems which are general to some extent. GRATE is a general framework which enables an application builder to construct multi-agent systems for the domain of industrial process control. Unlike other cooperation frameworks, GRATE embodies a significant amount of inbuilt knowledge related to cooperation and control which can be utilised during system building. This approach offers a paradigm shift for the construction of multi-agent systems in which the role of configuring preexisting knowledge becomes an integral component. Rather than starting from scratch the designer can utilise the inbuilt knowledge and augment it, if necessary, with domain specific information. The GRATE architecture has a clear separation of concerns and has been applied to real-world problems in the domains of electricity transportation management and diagnosis of a particle accelerator beam controller.","PeriodicalId":55165,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications","volume":"26 1","pages":"102-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82187536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}