The requirement for improving aircraft utilization and responsiveness in airlift operations has been recognized for quite some time by the Canadian Forces. To date, the utilization of scarce airlift resources has been planned mainly through the employment of manpower-intensive manual methods in combination with the expertise of highly qualified personnel. In this paper, we address the problem of facilitating the load planning process for military aircraft cargo planes through the development of a computer-based system. We introduce TALBAS (Transport Aircraft Loading and BAlancing System), a knowledge-based system designed to assist personnel involved in preparing valid load plans for the C130 Hercules aircraft. The main features of this system which are accessible through a convivial graphical user interface, consists of the automatic generation of valid cargo arrangements given a list of items to be transported, the user-definition of load plans and the automatic validation of such load plans.
Transport Aircraft Loading and Balancing System: Using a CLIPS Expert System for Military Aircraft Load Planning
1994
8 pages
Report
No indication
English
Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Aircraft , Air cargo , Balancing , Computer techniques , Expert systems , Load distribution (Forces) , Loading operations , Transport aircraft , Aerodynamic balance , Air transportation , C (Programming language) , C-130 aircraft , Computer programs , Graphical user interface , Loads (Forces) , Foreign technology
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