EMMA (Expert Missile Maintenance Aid): The Expert System for Munition Maintenance

Abstract

EMMA (Expert Missile Maintenance Aid) is the res ult of research sponsored by the Air Force Base Armament Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida. It is a first attempt to enhance maintenance of a tactical munition at the field and depot level by using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The ultimate goal of EMMA is to help a novice maintenance technician isolate and diagnose electronic, electromechanical, and mechanical equipment faults to the board/chassis level more quickly and consistently than the best human expert using the best currently available automatic test equipment (ATE). To this end, EMMA augments existing ATE with an expert system that captures the knowledge of design and maintenance experts. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Maintenance and Diagnostics, Integrated Diagnostics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202558

Entities

People

  • Barry E. Mullins

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Expert Systems
  • Maintenance
  • Manpower Utilization
  • Mechanical Equipment
  • Munitions
  • Prototypes
  • Technicians
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Sets
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Microelectronics