An Intelligent Decision Support Tool for Automatic Engineering of Aircraft Electrical Wiring Harnesses and Pipes
Christian Van der Velden, Cees Bil, Xinghuo Yu, Adrian Smith · 7th AIAA ATIO Conf, 2nd CEIAT Int'l Conf on Innov and Integr in Aero Sciences,17th LTA Systems Tech Conf; followed by 2nd TEOS Forum · 2007
[Abstract] The automation of engineering processes through Knowledge Based Engineering methods and technologies can provide significant savings in project scheduling and cost, increasing competitiveness in a changing aerospace market. In this paper we present outcomes of a research project aimed at improving engineering automation capability through development of a tool for automatic rule based path-finding for the complex engineering task of aircraft electrical harness and pipe routing.