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Implementing an Expert Diagnostic Assistance System for Car Failure and Malfunction

Applications in fault diagnosis are continuously being implemented to serve different sectors. Car failure detection is a sequence of diagnostic processes that necessitates the deployment of expertise. The Expert System (ES) is one of the leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques that have been adopted to handle such task. This paper presents the imperatives for an ES in developing car failure detection model and the requirements of constructing successful Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) for such model. In addition, it exhibits the adaptation of the ES in the development of Car Failure and Malfunction Diagnosis Assistance System (CFMDAS). However, CFMDAS development faces many challenges such as collecting the required data for building the knowledge base and performing the inferencing. Furthermore, diagnosis of car faults requires high technical skills and experienced mechanics who are typically scarce and expensive to get. Thus, systems such as CFMDAS can be highly useful in assisting mechanics for failure detection and training purposes. Moreover, capturing and retaining valuable knowledge on such domain yield more accurate and less time consuming models.

An Expert System for Car Failure Diagnosis

Car failure detection is a complicated process and requires high level of expertise. Any attempt of developing an expert system dealing with car failure detection has to overcome various difficulties. This paper describes a proposed knowledge-based system for car failure detection. The paper explains the need for an expert system and the some issues on developing knowledge-based systems, the car failure detection process and the difficulties involved in developing the system. The system structure and its components and their functions are described. The system has about 150 rules for different types of failures and causes. It can detect over 100 types of failures. The system has been tested and gave promising results. Keywords—Expert system, car failure diagnosis, knowledge- based system, CLIPS.

An Approach towards designing of Car Troubleshooting Expert System

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2010

Car problem detection is a complicated process which demands high level of knowledge and skills. Our aim is to develop an expert system on car maintenance and troubleshooting that is capable of assisting car's owner in dealing with their car problems and troubleshooting them whenever the time is limit and the human expert, also known as mechanics is not available at that very point of time. This paper provides affective design issues concerning the problems while driving a car and will give a logical solution which would help in rectifying those problems. The system would contain various set of rules for detecting different type of failures which can be easily handled by the driver and will give their causes. Here the system mainly deals with the starting problems of car and detecting various other large scale problems.

Developing Knowledge-Based Systems: Car Failure Detection using Expert System

Information and Knowledge Management, 2014

To develop an expert system describes the knowledge-base of the car failure detection. 19 rule-based of car fault diagnosis expert system using the Visual Basic and Microsoft Access as tools for helping inexperienced mechanic as the decision support system. During the test phase of system it never gave wrong detection according to the rules used. It can be concluded that car failure detection expert system is helpful although it might not give a complete guides and help as a human expert namely mechanical engineer do, but at least the expert system can give a temporary assistance to those who are in need of an instance help. Keywords: knowledge-base system, car failure detection, expert system, rule-based

Design and Implementation of an Expert Management System for Automobile Fault Detection

International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering-IJASRE, 2019

A system has been developed to communicate with the On-Board Diagnostics system of a car using the Controller Area Network communication protocol. The system requests the stored trouble codes that might have been detected by the diagnostics system and sends them to a server. The information is accessed through a web interface. The web interface allows the user to find the solutions in the database together with the detected faults. The database also contains information about trouble codes, such as their symptoms, causes and how to fix them. Monitoring the communications while testing the prototype showed that the system works as intended and can communicate with cars from different manufacturers and extract the data. The prototype system was compared with a commercial scan tool and testing showed that they both produced the same results. The second module of the project deals with the design and implementation of an expert system for car faults diagnosis. The project is motivated by the need to guide car owners and learners' motor mechanics in the maintenance and troubleshooting of motor problems without having to resort to presumptions and conjectures. Particularly, it is expected that the proposed design would ensure that car owners have proper assistance in times of crisis and what's more, will save them from the clutches of exploitative roadside mechanics. For this purpose, a rule-based artificial intelligence (AI) technique was utilized to obtain theoretical and practical expert system parameters, and then a conceptual expert system was designed. The expert system functioning is based on the database of car faults, symptoms and their correction, which make up its knowledge base. The new system was developed using PHP and MySQL database. This language was chosen because of its easy syntax and features for developing web-based applications.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERT CAR FAILURE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM WITH BAYESIAN APPROACH

In this study we propose a model of an Expert System to diagnose a car failure and malfunction using Bayesian Approach. An expert car failure diagnosis system is a computer system that uses specific knowledge which is owned by an expert to resolve car problems. Our specific system consists of knowledge base and solution to diagnose failure of car from Toyota Avanza, one of the favorite car used in Indonesia today and applying Bayesian approach for knowing the belief of the solution. We build Knowledge representation techniques of symptoms and solution froman experts using production rules. The experimental results presented and we obtained that the system has been able to perform diagnosis on car failure, giving solution and also gives the probability value of that solution.

The Prototype of an Expert Car Failures Diagnosis System with Combining Forward Chaining and Bayes Network

IRJAES, 2021

Today's automotive technology makes use of computers and sensors, as well issues a warning message on the dashboard to alert the car owner to a problem. This study aims to design an expert system to diagnose car failures using the Forward Chaining and Bayes Network methods. This system is specifically designed to use a knowledge base and solutions to diagnose failure Mercedes Benz cars based on Message Indicator Light (MIL). Observations and interviews were conducted with the experts in a workshop, then the rules for forward chaining were compiled, and then Bayes probability was calculated. The results of calculations with these two methods were the same diagnoses and solutions from experts.

Development of an Intelligent Car Engine Fault Troubleshooting System (CEFTS

Development of an Intelligent Car Engine Fault Troubleshooting System (CEFTS) , 2016

The mass production and wider use of automobiles and the incorporation of complex electronic technologies all indicate that the control of faults should be an integral part of engine design and usage. This paper discusses an expert system application for troubleshooting car engine faults using Auto-mechanic workshops in Calabar metropolis of Cross River State-Nigeria. The method of fact-finding called knowledge acquisition which is an expert system approach to extract facts was adopted in order to achieve good judgment in the use of heuristics among experts. The results are represented as a set of IF-THEN judgments that expert mechanics can rely mostly on in the troubleshooting process. The system depends on an automated matching process between symptoms and procedures. The paper developed a new prototype named Car Engine Fault Troubleshooting System (CEFTS) using C++ programming platform. The purpose of the developed prototype is to assist motorists and auto mechanics in fault troubleshooting of car engines by providing systematic and step-by-step analysis of failure symptoms and offering maintenance or service advice. The result of this development is expected to introduce a systematic and intelligent method in car engine troubleshooting and maintenance environments and also provides a troubleshooting framework for other researchers to work on.

A Fault Diagnosis Expert System for Commercial Bus Manufacturing process

International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018

Bus manufacturing is one of the important assets in automotive industries as well as mode of public transportation. The design process is difficult and long throughout time. Moreover, there are many manuals, rules and regulation according to different standard which make the standardization and design process to be difficult and time consuming. Hence, this project describes the use of an expert system shell for commercial bus design. In bus manufacturing field, design of commercial bus is heavily depending on human experts. With the help of expert system, process of design commercial bus will be shortened up to 56.5% compared to conventional way. The developed system can be used as a training module for inexperienced personnel. In this research work, the fault diagnosis system was developed by using Kappa-PC expert system shell. It is supported by object orientated technology for the MS window environment. Lastly, the developed system will be validated with a case study to verify th...

Implementing a Mobile Vehicle Failure and Malfunction Diagnosis Assistance System

2013

Applications in fault diagnosis are continuously being implemented to serve different sectors. Vehicle failure detection is a sequence of diagnostic processes that necessitates the deployment of expertise. This paper presents the imperatives for an expert system in developing vehicle failure solution detection model and the requirements of constructing successful knowledge-based system for such model. In addition, it exhibits the adaptation of the expert system in the development of vehicle failure and malfunction diagnosis assistance system (VFMDAS). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to assess the feasibility of augmenting the mechanic/vehicle user with a mobile application in the maintenance of vehicle. Based on the current diagnostic expert systems such as MYCIN, the expert diagnostic system discussed here will contain a knowledge base obtained from technical manuals and expert mechanics. It should be possible for less-qualified mechanic or a new vehicle user to quickly and accu...