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# First International Conference on Intelligent Systems Engineering, 1992 (Conf. Publ. No. 360)

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• ### Knowledge-based approach to signal smoothing

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):23 - 28
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The task of signal smoothing is addressed as a special case of signal processing. Despite the fact that the smoothing methods are based on the analytic signal description and work on the quantitative representation of signals, good choice of a method is far from trivial and is based on the qualitative knowledge about the signal and noise. The authors aim is to help the usage of so called order sta... View full abstract»

• ### A constraint maintenance system for the distributed resource allocation problem

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):197 - 202
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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The problem of allocating resources to activities may be decomposed into sub-problems, and these sub-problems may in turn be distributed across a society of problem solving agents. Distribution may be due to the geographical nature of the problem, or may reflect the structure of the organisation within which the activities take place. However, one might anticipate some degree of coupling between s... View full abstract»

• ### Intelligent pointers for fault diagnosis

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):165 - 170
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The paper explains a scheme for monitoring and diagnosing a plant in real time. This approach is based on application of system theory and artificial intelligence. System theory assists in obtaining information from the plant. This is done by constructing a mathematical model of plant. Comparing outputs from the real plant and its model provides useful information concerning the state of the syste... View full abstract»

• ### Using energy constraints to generate fault candidates in model based diagnosis

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):159 - 164
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The authors demonstrate the use of qualitative modelling techniques for the fault diagnosis of continuous dynamic systems. In addition, they examine the various classes of models of physical systems and their usages within a functional perspective of model-based' diagnosis. They outline a scheme for fault diagnosis which integrates the application of multiple models, qualitative and numeric, of t... View full abstract»

• ### Power plant domain representation for operator intelligent training systems

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):250 - 256
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The authors present the domain representation for an intelligent training system for the operation of thermal power plants, particularized to the Iberdrola owned Santurce thermal plant. The application, named SANTURCEDEM, is developed within the European Community ESPRIT ITSIE project, and its architecture consist of three main sections: the Domain, the Tutor and the User Interface. The descriptio... View full abstract»

• ### Qualitative modelling of dynamical systems for on-line diagnosis-knowledge acquisition vs. structured modelling

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):153 - 158
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The paper concerns the problem of finding qualitative models for a given dynamical system. It is shown that the principal modelling steps that are used in well-known modelling and identification methods in control theory can also be applied to qualitative modelling. This provides a systematic framework to find qualitative or even mixed quantitative-qualitative descriptions of dynamical systems View full abstract»

• ### Some aspects of the use of intelligent systems engineering in the design of airport security programmes

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):77 - 85
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The author indicates specific areas of airport security and security equipment where intelligent systems engineering (ISE) has greatly enhanced the equipment capability. The basic features of several different technologies for explosive and narcotics detection which are available in commercial devices, from the viewpoint of sensitivity, selectivity, response time, complexity, cost and health hazar... View full abstract»

• ### Trajectory planning of a robot using learning algorithms

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):13 - 16
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The authors consider the problem of a robot manipulator operating in a noisy workspace. The manipulator is required to move from an initial position Pi to a final position P f. Pi is assumed to be completely defined. However, Pf is obtained by a sensing operation and is assumed to be fixed but unknown. The authors appr... View full abstract»

• ### An intelligent graphical user interface for a design environment

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):190 - 196
Cited by:  Patents (2)
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The development of an intelligent graphical user interface has been considered as one of the intermediate objectives for the provision of an environment to assist a team of cooperating designers during the design of chemical plants. Within the design environment, a knowledge representation has been proposed to maintain and use a history of the design process. It consists of five types of closely i... View full abstract»

• ### An intelligent alarm system

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):324 - 329
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The authors describe an alarm system which will detect and track a human moving around a scene from stationary cameras. The authors provide a summary of the system from the lower pixel based representation to the higher level edge grouping and stereo matching. Data flows from the three cameras into the initial segmentation modules before the stereo matching algorithm is applied. After stereo match... View full abstract»

• ### The application of knowledge based techniques to subsea acoustic data interpretation

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):41 - 46
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This paper describes work carried out on the application of knowledge based techniques to subsea acoustic data interpretation. A simple knowledge based system for seismic interpretation is presented that is shown to form a suitable framework for a more general aid to the subsea survey industry. The work involves the integration of knowledge based techniques, acoustic signal processing algorithms, ... View full abstract»

• ### An on-line intelligent control scheme for tension control

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):244 - 249
Cited by:  Patents (1)
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In a high speed process control environment, system dynamics (including the disturbance) are often non-linear and fast changing. The classical self-tuning control (STC) strategy takes several seconds before obtaining a system model, STC cannot thus handle a fast changing environment. Rule based control can compensate for fast changes, but lacks a formal method to optimise the controller's effort. ... View full abstract»

• ### Qualitative model based diagnosis of continuous dynamic systems

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):147 - 152
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The paper presents several innovations in the development of techniques for diagnosing continuous dynamic systems based on qualitative models. It argues that, to diagnose such physical systems, a mechanism for modelling and simulating continuous dynamic behaviours, a method for synchronous tracking of the dynamic behaviours, a metric for detecting degradation of the continuous behaviours and for m... View full abstract»

• ### A knowledge based line balance system for a multi-product environment

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):92 - 97
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The computer aided line balance system (ALBS) adopts a procedure that an industrial engineer may follow when developing a manual line balance. It has been developed from personal experience, consultation with practising industrial engineers, and trial and error to provide a viable solution to most line balance conditions found in the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. The data relationships tha... View full abstract»

• ### DMUSE-a distributed real-time knowledge based systems toolkit

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):203 - 209
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The paper focuses on the architectural approach taken for the DMuse project. This includes a description of the Muse real time intelligent knowledge based systems (IKBS) toolkit and the alterations necessary to provide this system on a multiprocessor platform to produce the distributed Muse (DMuse) toolkit. For the purposes of the paper only the software is described View full abstract»

• ### Simulation of multiple layer woven textile structures for composite reinforcements

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):104 - 110
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The paper introduces a three dimensional simulation of multiple layer woven textile structures used for composite reinforcement. With the structural logic being delivered by an irregular 3D matrix, the images of most possible multiple layered structures can be generated. The simulation can be used to assist the design of reinforcements for composite materials, and the 3D images can be used as geom... View full abstract»

• ### A novel approach to finite automata with control application to transport systems

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):71 - 76
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The paper shows that finite automata are much closer related to discrete-time systems than assumed in the past. To this end a novel representation of Boolean functions is introduced similar to some sense to the canonical form of Shegalkin polynomials (1928). However common algebra is used instead of Boolean algebra. As a special class, systems which are linear in the sense of common algebra are co... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear robot system identification based on neural network models

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):299 - 303
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper addresses the novel issues related to system identification applied to robot manipulators based on the nonlinear functional properties of artificial neural network models. An estimation procedure for the link parameters is described in which identification is carried out using the parallel recursive prediction error technique. The algorithm enables the weights in each neuron of the netw... View full abstract»

• ### Developing strategies for manipulator path planning with orientation constraints

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):7 - 12
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The paper discusses the work undertaken at the UK National Advanced Robotics Research Centre in the area of path planning. Experiments have been undertaken with the best first planner (BFP) and random path planner (RPP) algorithms developed at Stanford University by Barraquand & Latombe (Rep. no. STAN-CS-89-1259, 1989). These look particularly suitable for solving a wide range of motion planni... View full abstract»

• ### A knowledge-based cable harness design rule checker to improve the effectiveness and efficiency

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):185 - 189
Cited by:  Patents (1)
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With the increase in the use of advanced technologies in products like aeroplanes and computers the performance of the cable harness has become critical. The cable harness needs to be designed as an integral part of the product and not as an after thought. The development cycle of the products has also shortened and there is an increased demand for a rapid design facility. The cable hardness desig... View full abstract»

• ### The representation of domain knowledge in intelligent training systems

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):269 - 274
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The ESPRIT project 2615 ITSIE, aims to utilise ITS techniques to develop a generic framework for the development of training systems. A major aspect of this project is the use of the qualitative modelling techniques to meet the needs of current training systems. The project has recognised the importance of clearly establishing the types of skills and expertise' required of the trainee. The author... View full abstract»

• ### SETH: an expert system for functional test and fault diagnosis of electronic devices

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):59 - 64
Cited by:  Patents (1)
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The authors describe how test benches based on the SETH System are used in Siemens Telecomunicazioni connected one another to form a testing line. During its activity SETH automatically drives the complex set of instruments that forms the test bench. By comparing the actual value read on the unit under test and the values stored in the knowledge base, SETH determines the next action to be executed... View full abstract»

• ### Issues raised in development of a large knowledge-based system for the design of railway signalling schemes

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):316 - 323
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This paper looks at some of the issues raised during the early stages of development of a system to aid railway signalling engineers in their design work. It points to the paramount importance of the interface in the overall system design and how it may even affect the underlying system structure. The difficulties that can be encountered where a user interface cannot be specified are highlighted. ... View full abstract»

• ### DC servo motor controllers based on a neural network

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):287 - 292
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The paper presents a methodology of developing a neural network based discrete time position servo motor controller. The motor driving circuit is nonlinear in nature and it is characterised by dead-zone and saturation features. Firstly, the authors analyse how motor operations are affected when the system is operated in closed-loop with that kind of undesirable phenomena. Secondly, they illustrate... View full abstract»

• ### Coupling numerical & symbolic techniques for dynamic data validation

Publication Year: 1992, Page(s):35 - 40
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A validation scheme has been developed to process aircraft flight data by coupling numerical and symbolic processing techniques. Feature interpretation and qualitative modelling approaches have been adopted since the observed, aircraft sensor network lacked instrumentation redundancy. The development of this application is presented in the context of a generic data reduction hierarchy for which im... View full abstract»