Design and implementation of an expert system for car maintenance and troubleshooting

Description

Abstract This project deals with the design and implementation of an expert system for car maintenance and troubleshooting. The project is motivated by the need to guide car owners and learners motor mechanics in the maintenance and troubleshooting of car 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-based 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 programming language and MySQL database. This language was chosen because of its easy syntax and features for developing a web-based application.