Centralized and Distributed Structures of Intelligent Systems for Aided Design of Ship Automation

摘要

A design process and accepted solutions made during this process, often base on non-formalized knowledge, obtained from designer (expert) intuition and practice. There are no formalized rules assuring the correctness of design solutions. The analysis of design process of ship automation, including ship power system, shows that this process can be supported by application of the artificial intelligence elements. The article presents two artificial intelligence technologies of computer-aided design regarding ship's power subsystems automation (expert system and the multi-agent environment). The paper discusses applications developed using both approaches and presents their performance comparison concerning requests processing efficiency.