Application of Evidential Reasoning to Helicopter Flight Path Control

There currently exists a class of problems for which Artificial Intelligence based problem-solring methods, although desirable, are deemed impracticaL Characteristic of this class is a requirement to symbolically process a rapid and high volume of data in a real-time environment. Highly complex systems must coordinate data (referred to as "Knowledge" by Garvey et. al. [11) acquired from a wide range of disparate souces which may not only be distributed in origin, but also differing in fature content. The success of many emerging technological advances requires the building of performance-critical expert systems; to accomplish this, the issues established above must be addressed.