RTDAMS: a real-time diagnosis and maintenance system

Rule-based systems are most important knowledge representation techniques and have been widely used to build large expert systems, but their deficiencies make them unsuitable for real-time application. The ideal space production has real-time requirements. This paper discusses the design and implementation of a real-time rule-based diagnosis and maintenance system (RTDAMS), which can be used in the automatic GaAs production line on the space station. >