Recently two newly certified Boeing 737-8 (MAX) (Lion Air flight JT610 and Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302) crashed within 4 months resulting in 346 fatalities. The causes of both accidents are similar: the unintended and repetitive activations of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), which resulted in repetitive aircraft nose down commands through horizontal stabilizer...
In the design of complex objects, such as aircraft, the definition of the means of production usually begins after the definition of the product. In other words, the product specifications define the requirements for its production system (factory, assembly line, tools, etc.). The limitation of this approach is that the production system can inherit blocking constraints that might easily be...
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Analysis of recent accidents and incidents have pointed to monitoring failure as a contributing factor. Challenges in monitoring are likely to increase as the complexity of automated systems increases, for airplanes, for UAVs, and other supervisory tasks. Improving monitoring skills though training is one component of reducing monitoring failure and this prompted our research on...
Artificial intelligence, and its companion deep learning, are extensions of expert systems. These concepts translate into software programmes driving systems that are the basic tools for functions available to humans. It is essential to link these concepts to the concrete applications where their input becomes necessary.
For many years now, the Air and Space Academy has reflected on the...
