DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EXPERT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOBILE FAULT DETECTION (A CASE STUDY OF AUTO SERVICE DIVISION OF DELTA STATE POLYTECHNIC OGHARA-OTEFE)
Abstract
This project deals with the design and implementation of an expert system for car
faults diagnosis. The project is motivated by the need to guide car owners and
learners motor mechanics in the maintenance and troubleshooting of motor
problems without having to resort to presumptions and conjectures. Particularly, it
is expected that the proposed design would ensure that car owners have proper
assistance in times of crisis and what’s more will save them from the clutches of
exploitative roadside mechanics. For this purpose a rule- base artificial intelligence
(AI) technique was utilized to obtain theoretical and practical expert system
parameters, and then a conceptual expert system was designed. The expert system
functioning is based on the database of car faults, symptoms and their correction,
which make up its knowledge base. The new system was developed using PHP and
MySQL programming language and access database. This language was chosen
because of its easy syntax and features for developing windows based application. This project deals with the design and implementation of an expert system for car
faults diagnosis. The project is motivated by the need to guide car owners and
learners motor mechanics in the maintenance and troubleshooting of motor
problems without having to resort to presumptions and conjectures. Particularly, it
is expected that the proposed design would ensure that car owners have proper
assistance in times of crisis and what’s more will save them from the clutches of
exploitative roadside mechanics. For this purpose a rule- base artificial intelligence
(AI) technique was utilized to obtain theoretical and practical expert system
parameters, and then a conceptual expert system was designed. The expert system
functioning is based on the database of car faults, symptoms and their correction,
which make up its knowledge base. The new system was developed using PHP and
MySQL programming language and access database. This language was chosen
because of its easy syntax and features for developing windows based application.
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