Intelligent Systems For Aerospace Engineering: An Overview
Kalmanje S. Krishnakumar · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) · 2003
Intelligent systems are nature-inspired, mathematically sound, computationally intensive problem solving tools and methodologies that have become extremely important for advancing the current trends in information technology. Artificially intelligent systems currently utilize computers to emulate various faculties of human intelligence and biological metaphors. They use a combination of symbolic and sub-symbolic systems capable of evolving human cognitive skills and intelligence, not just systems capable of doing things humans do not do well. Intelligent systems are ideally suited for tasks such as search and optimization, pattern recognition and matching, planning, uncertainty management, control, and adaptation. In this paper, the intelligent system technologies and their application potential are highlighted via several examples. 2 Defining Intelligent Systems Science has evolved with our efforts towards understanding and mimicking nature, through inventions and discoveries, hypotheses and proofs, success and failures. The evolution of computers marks the era of our success in building systems that can perform actions of a