Cognitive SaaS Platform for Avionics Using Reinforcement Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional SaaS platforms for connected flight management systems lack the ability to understand user intent, adapt to changing circumstances, and learn from experience, leading to inefficient and costly custom coding for interaction with multiple sub-systems, and they often fail to provide context-sensitive data and reasoning capabilities.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of reinforcement learning models to analyze user queries, determine intent, entities, emotions, and context, and dynamically invoke appropriate services, enabling a cognitive service interface that can adapt and learn over time.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional hard-wired interfaces are used to interact with sub-systems, then specific user needs can be met, but the cost and time to build increase prohibitively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to meet specific user needsVSAvoidcost and time to build
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a natural language processing intermediary layer between users and sub-systems. This intermediary translates user queries into appropriate sub-system interactions, eliminating the need for hard-wired interfaces for each specific user need. The intermediary acts as a mediator that dynamically routes requests based on language understanding rather than pre-programmed pathways.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a universal natural language interface that can handle multiple different user needs through a single flexible system. Instead of creating dedicated interfaces for each sub-system interaction, the universal language processor can adapt to various query types and route them appropriately, making one interface serve multiple functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If custom coding is used for each point-to-point interaction of sub-systems, then specific functionality is achieved, but the complexity and cost increase extremely

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespecific functionalityVSAvoidcomplexity and cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The natural language processing system serves as an intermediary that replaces complex custom coding with language-based routing. Instead of writing custom code for each point-to-point interaction, the system uses language understanding to dynamically determine which sub-systems to invoke and how to connect them, significantly reducing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions from static hard-wired connections to dynamic language-based routing. The interaction pathways are not fixed but are determined dynamically at runtime based on the user's natural language query, allowing the system to adapt to new functionalities without additional coding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If traditional SaaS platforms are used, then basic data storage and computing are provided, but the ability to understand user intent and provide context-sensitive data is lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebasic platform functionalityVSAvoidability to understand user intent
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical interface systems with cognitive language processing systems. Instead of requiring users to navigate complex menu structures or know specific command protocols, the system uses natural language understanding to interpret user intent, substituting rigid mechanical interaction patterns with flexible cognitive processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where the natural language processing model learns from user interactions and improves its understanding of intent over time. This feedback mechanism allows the platform to become increasingly adept at understanding user needs and providing context-sensitive responses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3709236B1Systems and methods for cognitive services of a connected FMS or avionics saas platform
Publication Date: 2024.12.04 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
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AI summary

Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for cognitive services for a FMS SaaS platform. For instance, the method may include obtaining training data; training reinforcement learning model(s) using the obtained training data; in response to receiving a request for cognitive services from a user device, analyzing a query of the request for cognitive services using at least one reinforcement learning model of the trained reinforcement learning model(s); determining intent, entity(s), emotion, and/or context of the query based on an output of the at least one reinforcement learning model to form a cognitive services request; applying a second at least one reinforcement learning model of the trained reinforcement learning model(s) to the cognitive services request to determine one or more services to invoke; and transmitting a result to the user device based on an output of the one of more invoked services.