Semantically Enhanced System and Automation Design of Complex Marine Vessels
N. Kougiatsos (TU Delft - Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Jesper Zwaginga (TU Delft - Ship Design, Production and Operations)
J. F.J. Pruyn (TU Delft - Ship Design, Production and Operations)
Vasso Reppa (TU Delft - Transport Engineering and Logistics)
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Abstract
To integrate and assist the system and automation design phases of complex marine vessels, this paper proposes a two-level semantically enhanced scheme. At the design level, the system components are described and automatically connected by a developed graph-making tool using semantic 'knowledge'. Decisions regarding the system selection are made based on certain Quality of Service Criteria (QoS) and enforced in the final semantic database using a dedicated cognitive agent. The automation level leverages the selected systems semantic information with that of the associated automation components and reuses the graph-making tool to update the connection graph. The resulting knowledge-graph is then used to 'reason' for the creation of feasible closed-loop control architectures while a cognitive agent determines which closed-loop architecture to use based on various QoS criteria. The chosen closed-loop architecture can then change in an online manner during the vessel operation in case that system reconfiguration is required either due to malfunctioning components, or aiming to satisfy mission's goals. The applicability and efficiency of the proposed method are shown using a case study for marine propulsion.