The Boeing Smart TPS Application Executive with Matlab® as a Diagnostic Reasoner

Extensible markup language (XML) transactions have been investigated by the Automatic test markup language (ATML) working group as a standardized way to establish connectivity between maintenance systems in a network centric support (NCS) environment. These same types of transactions are currently implemented in the smart TPS application executive for reasoner types of services. This paper discusses the engineering effort required to integrate MATLABreg into these transactions as a reasoner. We will outline the interface used and describe the code we generated for the interface. This integration will demonstrate the flexibility of the Boeing application executive's reasoner interface and the versatility of the MATLABreg environment. In order to exercise the interface between the application executive and MATLABreg, we developed a very simple reasoner in MATLABreg. This reasoner was only generated as a proof of concept and not a fully defined reasoner as outlined by IEEE 1232. This reasoner was developed for the demo system designed for the Boeing RT-CASS system demonstration of reasoners.