Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VI

This book contains papers presented at the sixth International Conference on Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering held in Oxford, UK in was held in Southampton, UK July 1991. The first conference in this series the second in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 1987, the third in 1986, 1989 in Palo Alto, California, USA in 1988, the fourth in Cambridge, UK in and the fifth in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1990. The conference series has now established itself as the unique forum for the presentation of the latest research, development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in all fields of engineering. Consequently, books of conference proceedings provide a historical record of the application of AI in engineering design, analysis, simulation, planning, scheduling, monitoring, control, diagnosis, reliability and quality, as well as in robotics and manufacturing systems, from the early beginnings to mature applications of today. Whilst previously the field was dominated by knowledge-based systems, in this latest volume, for the first time, a significant proportion of papers cover the paradigms of neural networks and genetic algorithms. Learning and self­ organising behaviour of systems based on these paradigms are particularly important in engineering applications. From a large number of submitted proposals over sixty papers have been selected by members of the Advisory Committee who acted as referees. Pa­ pers have been grouped under the following headings.

Section 1: Engineering Design.- Genetic Algorithms as a Computational Theory of Conceptual Design.- Pre-schematic Electronic Circuit Designer.- Expert Systems in Mechanical Engineering Design.- Numerical Methods in AI-Based Design Systems.- A Knowledge Based System to Automate Manufacturing and Design Engineering.- HYPERARCHITECTURES - A New Multidimensional and Humanistic Scheme for CAAD.- An Integrated Approach to the Automation of Class Three Electronic Design Problems.- Design Brief Expansion Tool.- An Integrated System for Constructibility Assessment of a Design Detail.- Knowledge Based System for Geometry Features Reasoning from Three-Dimensional CAD Data.- Insights into Cooperative Group Design: Experience with the LAN Designer System.- Decomposition of Design Activities.- Mixpert: A Maintainable Configurer’s Assistant.- Design of Breakwaters using Knowledge-Based Techniques.- Controlling Database Integrity.- Intelligent Conceptual Design for Mechanical Systems.- Design and Implementation of a Prototype Intelligent System for Evolution Design of Dynamic Objects.- Evolutionary Inheritance and Delegation as Mechanisms in Knowledge Programming for Engineering Product Design.- An Expert System for Ergonomic Workplace Design Using a Genetic Algorithm.- Section 2: Engineering Analysis and Simulation.- Hierarchical Qualitative Simulation for Large Scale Dynamical Systems.- Intelligent Support of Flight Experimental Design and Analysis.- A Knowledge Based System for Material Preheat in Welding.- HardSys/HardDraw: A Smart Topology Based Electromagnetic Interaction Modelling Tool.- Drilling Tool Selection Aid System.- Structured Selection Problem in Pavement Rehabilitation.- HyperQ/Process: An Expert System for Manufactuing Process Selection.- Neural Networks in the Colour Industry.- The Design of a Simulator System for Educating Engineers.- Section 3: Planning and Scheduling.- Process Parameter Origination using a Combination of Knowledge Based Paradigms.- Real-Time Means Planning Ahead to Look Back.- Resource Leveling in PERT by Neural Network.- CONTRALTO: Constraint Reasoning Applied to Logistics for Transport Organisations.- RAPS - A Rule-based Language for Specifying Resource Allocation and Time-tabling Problems.- KBS in Marine Collision Avoidance.- An Expert System Tool to Aid Production Schedulers.- Section 4: Monitoring and Control.- A Real Time Interpretation Model.- A New Method to Obtain the Relation Matrix for Fuzzy Logic Controllers.- Using Process Knowledge for Adaptive User Interfaces.- Intelligent Machine Tools: An Application of Neural Networks to the Control of Cutting Tool Performance.- Studies in A.I. Augmented Control Systems using the BOXES Methodology.- Artificial Neural Network for Alarm-State Monitoring.- Design and Experimentation of a Shell to Develop Knowledge Based Systems for Spacecraft Control.- Coupling Expert Systems on Control Engineering Software.- Real-Time Drought Control of Storage Reservoir by Combining Middle and Long-Term Weather Forecast and Fuzzy Inference.- Vehicles Controlling: Representation of Knowledge and Algorithms of Multi-Agent Decision.- Section 5: Diagnosis, Safety and Reliability.- DIPLOMA - The Seal of Approval.- Knowledge Based System for Fault Diagnosis of a Hot Strip Mill Downcoiler.- Towards an Automated FMEA Assistant.- Generic Diagnosis for Mechanical Devices.- Fault Detection in Digital Filters for Satellite Systems.- Section 6: Robotics.- The Co-operative Behavior of Multirobot Systems.- Piecewise Straight-Line Correlation Algorithm for Feedback Navigation Systems with Robotic Applications.- A Multiple Views Robotic Stereo Method for 3-D Shape Perception.- Section 7: Knowledge Elicitation and Representation.- Data Acquisition and Expert Knowledge Elicitation for Expert Systems in Construction.- Representing the Engineering Description of Soils in Knowledge Based Systems.- Section 8: Theory and Methods for System Development.- Expert System Verification and Validation Part I: Defining the Concepts.- Expert System Verification and Validation Part II: Implementing the Concepts.- Development of a Systems Theory using Natural Language.- Computer Aided Validation Expert System.- Fuzzy Boxes As An Alternative to Neural Networks for Difficult Control Problems.- Optimal Solutions for Deep and Shallow Engineering Expert Systems.- Optimisation of Neural-Network Structure using Genetic Techniques.- Interval Algebras and Order of Magnitude Reasoning.- An Algorithm for the Automated Generation of Rheological Models.- Expert’s Interface in a Generator of Process Supervision Systems: Relational Management of an Object-Oriented Knowledge.- Default Reasoning in Dipsy-E System.- Knowledge-Based Modelling Systems for Research of Engineering Objects.- Integration of Natural Language in Developing the Inference Mechanism Provides Powerful Benefits for Engineering Applications.- Organizational System as Hierarchy of Information Processes.- Authors’ Index.