This paper presents the first, very promising results of the Automated Troubleshooting of Satellite Communication Ground Equipment (ATSIG) project, which is a research project conducted by Wirtek and University of Malaga and supported by European Space Agency. The project develops a novel concept for automating the troubleshooting process of a Satcom network operator. The work presented contains a thorough description of the developed concept, which is based on advanced technology from the artificial intelligence domain (Bayesian networks). This technology is ideal for solving the very complex problem of producing a diagnosis automatically in a domain with a lot of uncertainty. Although the presented work is specific to Satcom troubleshooting, the approach and results are immediately applicable for similar complex diagnostic domains. A list of requirements for supporting the end user is presented, and this is used to steer the concept development as well as validation activities. The validation section contains a case study presenting a model developed to automatically diagnose problems in satellite Tracking, Telemetry and Command (TT&C) stations. Early results after Phase 1 of the project is presented showing that the solution meets all identified requirements. In Phase 2 of the project (first half of 2008) focus is on validation of the concept within operator organizations with the aim to measure gains quantitatively.


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    Title :

    Automated Troubleshooting of Satellite Communication Ground Equipment


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    Publication date :

    2008-03-01


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    3254776 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English