Candidate: Joel Brasil Borges
Program: UFSC / POSMEC
Date: March, 2002
Advisor: Jonny Carlos da Silva
Abstract: Due to the continuous application of industrial processes and increasing demand for alternative forms of energy that satisfy criteria and specific needs, pneumatics presents itself as source of energy to obtain mechanical power, competing with other forms such as hydraulic and electro-mechanics, in some power ranges, applied to different automation processes, mainly in those requiring sequential procedures. In this context, this work aims to develop a computational system prototype based on the concept of expert systems, more applicable in conditions where a great deal of knowledge is of heuristic nature to support the decision making process. With this condition the design of pneumatic systems benefits from expertise to achieve the expected level of quality, detecting since the early stages some possible failures, according to the concepts of concurrent engineering. In the development of this computational tool, concepts related to its expansion are studied, through the feasibility analysis and incremental model application via continuous cycles of knowledge acquisition, representation, implementation and test. Among the areas this prototype aims to cover is the domain used in the design of pneumatic systems to operate in sequential steps, using the methodologies of pneumatics and electro-pneumatics, previously known as step-by-step and maximum sequence methods.
BORGES, J. B. Desenvolvimento de protótipo de sistema especialista para projeto de sistemas pneumáticos. 2002. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia Mecânica). Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis.