Machine Learning in Engineering Automation

Abstract Engineers need intelligent tools to assist them with problems such as design, planning, monitoring, control, diagnosis, and analysis. Manual construction of these tools can be costly or impossible due to problems such as large amounts of data, lack of problem understanding, and the expense of knowledge engineering. Machine learning techniques hold promise for assisting in solutions to many of these problems, but engineering domains present significant challenges to learning systems, including: noisy data, continuous quantities, mathematical formulas, large problem spaces, incorporating multiple sources and forms of knowledge, and the need for user-system interaction. This paper describes a number of challenges to learning systems motivated by engineering applications and describes a taxonomy of engineering tasks for application of machine learning technology.

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