ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence and expert systems have rapidly developed to assist in the automation of electronics manufacturing and testing, diagnosis, and repair. The systems have received much attention as the competitive environment forces industry to examine new disciplines. AI systems, however, can be fast, accurate, and untiring in the performance of their duties, as long as the built-in decision strategies are programmed to deal with the problem at hand. Robotics and sensory systems, using a higher-level language structure which represents the interpretation of input signals from sensors, such as optical, infrared, acoustic, pneumatic, and magnetic devices, to a typical translation or motion system. The specific set of “actions,” when implemented, modifies this “state” by invoking changes in an order of decisions that were previously determined by inference. The inference method must first recognize that all conditions of the rules have been met.
