DLRK 2025: Prompt Engineering for Aviation Test Processes ✈️
Luca Ingianni presented at the German Aerospace Congress (Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress - DLRK) 2025 on innovative applications of AI in aviation testing and quality assurance.
About the Presentation
Title: Prompt Engineering for Automated Evaluation of Test Processes in Aviation Session: Artificial Intelligence (AI): Machine Learning Date: September 25, 2025 Location: Hamburg, Germany
The Challenge
Aviation software testing, particularly for safety-critical systems under DO-178B/C standards, generates vast amounts of test data that must be analyzed meticulously. Traditional manual evaluation is time-consuming, error-prone, and struggles to scale with the complexity of modern avionics systems.
The Solution
Luca’s presentation demonstrated how innovative prompt engineering methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) can enable:
- Automated test evaluation: Efficiently process and analyze large volumes of test results
- Error analysis: Systematically identify and categorize failures and anomalies
- Quality assurance compliance: Support DO-178B/C requirements with traceable, comprehensible analysis
- Expert support: Augment the capabilities of test managers, QA teams, and certification authorities
Key Innovations
The presented approaches go beyond simple automation, focusing on:
- Comprehensibility: Ensuring AI-generated analyses are transparent and auditable for certification
- Domain expertise integration: Embedding aviation-specific knowledge into prompt structures
- Practical application: Battle-tested methods already deployed in real aerospace projects
- Certification-readiness: Alignment with DO-178B/C quality standards and traceability requirements
Why This Matters
As aviation systems become more complex and software-intensive, the testing burden grows exponentially. LLM-assisted test evaluation offers a path to:
- Reduce time and cost of certification processes
- Improve test coverage and quality
- Free human experts to focus on high-value analysis and decision-making
- Maintain rigorous safety standards while accelerating development cycles
About DLRK
The German Aerospace Congress (DLRK) is the premier aerospace conference in the German-speaking world, bringing together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to present cutting-edge developments in aerospace technology.
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