Automated Troubleshooting of Satellite Communication Ground Equipment

This paper presents the first, very promising results of the automated troubleshooting of satellite communication ground equipment (ATSIG) project, which is a research project conducted by Wirtek and University of Malaga and supported by European Space Agency. The project develops a novel concept for automating the troubleshooting process of a Satcom network operator. The work presented contains a thorough description of the developed concept, which is based on advanced technology from the artificial intelligence domain (Bayesian networks). This technology is ideal for solving the very complex problem of producing a diagnosis automatically in a domain with a lot of uncertainty. Although the presented work is specific to Satcom troubleshooting, the approach and results are immediately applicable for similar complex diagnostic domains.