AUTONOMOUS FITNESS FOR SERVICE ASSESSMENT

摘要

Autonomous fitness for continuing service assessment equipment interacts wit h the operator through natural speech, voice and sound and provides active failure prevention through automatic and/or continuous fitness for service assessmen t of a material under evaluation. The equipment comprises at least one computer and a material features acquisition system operable to detect a plurality of material features. The features are then evaluated according to rules that capture the multidiscipline knowledge of experts and are already inputted into the computer. The compute r iterations are processed until an acceptable conclusion is made regarding th e condition of the material under evaluation, thus alleviating the need for multidiscipline experts to examine and analyze all the material data manually, a very slow and expensiv e process. Further, the natural speech and voice interaction preferably allows the operator to operate the equipment while wearing gloves or with dirty hands as he/she wil l not need to constantly physically manipulate the equipment. The autonomous fitness fo r service assessment capability may also be retrofitted into conventional inspection systems by extracting pertinent features through spectral frequency analysis and sensor normalization and utilizing those features in the autonomous fitness for service assessment system.