Qualitative Simulation: A Tool for Global Decision Making
Abstract
As a decision making aid for the human operator of a highly automated,
complex system, qualitative modeling is presented as a tool to mimic
the human global assessment process by learning from the system
behavior. Such a qualitative model is applied to reason about the
behavior of a quantitatively simulated aircraft model, to determine
on-line when a malfunction occurs in the quantitative model, to
hypothesize about the nature of this malfunction, and to decide upon a
global strategy that would allow to operate (control) the quantitative
aircraft model under the modified flying conditions. Such an algorithm
could be utilized as an addition to a conventional autopilot which
would allow it to remain operational after a malfunction has taken
place.
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