Pilot's Associate: a cooperative, knowledge-based system application

Banks, Sheila B.; Lizza, Carl S.

doi:10.1109/64.87681

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“…The two planners, Tactics Planner and Mission Planner, react to the dynamic environment by responding to immediate threats and their effects on the prebriefed mission plan. The Pilot-Vehicle Interface subsystem provides the critical connection between the pilot and the rest of the system [12], [13]. Another project followed the PA program to address the ASM problem in attack helicopters is the Rotorcraft Pilots Associate (RPA) program.…”

Section: World-wide Asset Management Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Implementation Plan for Integrated Control and Asset Management of Petroleum Production Facilities

Sayda¹,

Taylor²

2006

IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control

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Abstract-This paper addresses innovative issues of asset management for the petroleum industry, which is very crucial for profitable oil and gas facilities operations and maintenance. A research project was initiated to study the feasibility of an intelligent asset management system. Having proposed a conceptual model for such a system in previous work [1], [2], we describe its behavior in terms of data and control flow, and pave the way for an implementation and rapid prototyping plan for such system. Furthermore we discuss the required off-the-shelf development tools. A simplified system prototype is introduced as a colored petri net model, which will be used to analyze the prototype logical structure and dynamic performance. We finally discuss the project progress status and future work.

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Section: World-wide Asset Management Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Implementation Plan for Integrated Control and Asset Management of Petroleum Production Facilities

Sayda¹,

Taylor²

2006

IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control

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“…The two planners, Tactics Planner and Mission Planner, react to the dynamic environment by responding to immediate threats and their effects on the pre-briefed mission plan. The Pilot-Vehicle Interface subsystem provides the critical connection between the pilot and the rest of the system" (Banks & Lizza, 1991). Another project, which followed the PA program to address the facility management problem in attack helicopters, is the Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) program.…”

Section: The Pilot's Associate (Pa) Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first research program to address the intelligent facility management problem in the US was the Pilot' (Banks & Lizza, 1991;Small & Howard, 1991). "The Pilot's Associate concept developed as a set of cooperating, knowledge-based subsystems: two assessor and two planning subsystems, and a pilot interface.…”

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Multi-agent Systems for Industrial Applications: Design, Development, and Challenges

Sayda¹

2011

Multi-Agent Systems - Modeling, Control, Programming, Simulations and Applications

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“…G2 [30], derived from PICON and developed by Gensym Corp., is a commercial ES Shell specially tailored to real-time control applications which is currently being applied to several problems. Literature also refers Pilot's Associate [31], intended to give support to the piloting of battle-planes. The RESCU project [32] produced a quality control system.…”

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Clinical communication and telemedicine

Coiera¹

2003

Guide to Health Informatics, 2Ed

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Human operators of monitoring and control systems typically perform knowledge intensive tasks requiring human intervention in diverse and sometimes critical situations. The cognitive overload to which they are submitted may motivate human errors which compromise safety and performance. Expert Systems offer the means to codify and automate the use of the knowledge of the best experts in a given domain, and may provide support to monitoring, diagnosis and control tasks. In this text we will make an overview of what expert systems are, what they may offer and what they don't. We will present their typical architecture and the most common knowledge representation formalisms and reasoning mechanisms, and discuss how they may deal with uncertainty. The lifecycle of an Expert System will also be presented, special attention being devoted to knowledge acquisition activities. An overview of some applications of expert systems to monitoring and control will be given, as well as some alternative approaches. INTRODUCTIONThe control needs of complex and expensive processes have motivated the development of sophisticated computational systems which allow the monitoring and control of complex processes by small crews of specialised human operators. Typically, these operators follow the process evolution through a set of instruments connected to a computer system which interacts with sensors, alarms and actuators. The control system is intended to minimize human intervention and to provide the operators with the maximum information on the controlled process. The operators' task essentially consists in trying to minimize failure risks while maximizing performance. The required degree of expertise depends on the complexity of the process and of the control system, on the importance, to people and equipment safety, of keeping the process in normal operation, and on the losses that an incorrect process control or its interruption may cause.In normal steady-state conditions, the control system takes charge of keeping the system in a given set point, and the operators confine themselves to monitoring the most important variables. Human intervention is required during system start-up and shut-down, and also to regulate the process to given resources and needs.Another, more critical, kind of situation occurs when equipment or process failures, or human errors, originate anomalous conditions. In such circumstances the control system presents a great quantity of information to the operators in a short time, originating in the most diverse sources, with the process conditions quickly changing and alarms escalating. In such a stressed situation, operators must discriminate actual faults from false alarm states, perform malfunction diagnosis, and plan and accomplish corrective actions 1 . This requires them to intensively resort to their knowledge on the process and on the control system. In particularly complex, stressed or time-critical situations, they 1 According to [1], "monitoring activities track process variables intelligent...

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Pilot's Associate: a cooperative, knowledge-based system application

Cited by 75 publications

References 5 publications

An Implementation Plan for Integrated Control and Asset Management of Petroleum Production Facilities

An Implementation Plan for Integrated Control and Asset Management of Petroleum Production Facilities

Multi-agent Systems for Industrial Applications: Design, Development, and Challenges

Clinical communication and telemedicine

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