Fault diagnosis within airplane is a complex and time consuming task. Both the efficiency and the effect of fault diagnosis are increasingly important for airplane flying on timetable and flight security. In this paper, we propose a fault diagnosis support system (FDSS) by using agent technology to support ground crew in process of airplane fault diagnosis. This FDSS consists of four kinds of agents: management agent, interface agent, diagnosis agent and data agent. Management agent serves as an agent name server and keeps the all agents’ information, such as name, location, capabilities. Interface agent is the interface of FDSS. Fault diagnosis user and expert have their own interface agent to interact with the FDSS. Diagnosis agent encapsulates a diagnosis method. Data agent gets the required signals for fault diagnosis. All agents have the capabilities of communication and cooperation with each other. We study the FDSS architecture, and discuss the development technology of FDSS.The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.htmlIFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2028, Kobe, JapanSymposium 3, Session 1 : Intelligent Information Technology and Applications Men and Computin
