Automating Maintenance Instructions Study: Procedure Planning Technologies.

Abstract

This report describes several approaches to automating the processes surrounding original creation of maintenance instructions, or technical orders. The report emphasizes techniques rooted in linguistics, particularly computational linguistics, that seem to hold promise for automating the derivation of maintenance procedures conveyed as text. Two varieties are highlighted: case-based planning, which identifies similar procedures from existing technical manuals to define new procedures, and generative planning, which operates from first principles. Other elements of a complete set of tools for automation support are also described. These include natural language understanding, human form modeling, and computer-aided design integration. Several case studies are used to illustrate the potential of suggested approaches to the automation problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA351083

Entities

People

  • Alice Mulvehill
  • Bruce Roberts
  • Richard Pew
  • Robert Granville
  • Stephen Deutsch

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Case Studies
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Natural Languages
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.