Robot- designer: fantasy and reality

The concept of aircraft design automation system based on artificial intelligence elements has been actively developed at the Construction and Design of an Aircraft department of Kuibyshev Institute of Aviation (now SSAu) between the late 80s and early 90s, getting high appreciation (for example from the editors in the Ontology of designing scientific journal #2, 2012). The results of those works were published in Automation of the preliminary design of an aircraft by n.m. borgest in 1992. unfortunately the changes of the political system of the country put a stop to that research. researches in this field were able to be continued only with the opening of a new specialty CALS support for students as well as the Ontology of designing for master's degree, "Aircraft" at the department. The paper describes the modern approach to the creation of design automation systems and shows the results, achieved by the authors in the field of creating such systems for the aircraft preliminary design automation.