Reducing workload with intelligent distributed control
conference paper
One of the tasks of the Defence Materiel Organisation is to design ships for the Royal Netherlands Navy. The main objective is to design ships that are capable of performing the missions that will be assigned to these ships and their crews. That in itself is a difficult task. To make things even more difficult, there are several constraints to the design process. The constraints that have become increasingly important in the last few years are: low budget limits for the acquisition and operation of new ships, and low availability of crew members. The obvious way to satisfy both constraints is to design naval ships that can actually be operated with fewer personnel. The key element to such new design is workload reduction because workload reduction enables manning reduction. This paper proposes to reduce the workload of Marine Engineering personnel by letting an intelligent distributed control system perform control tasks. The Defence Materiel Organisation and TNO Defence, Security and Safety have developed a test system that successfully proves the feasibility of the concept. The development of the control system continues with the UK-NL Research & Development project called DINCS, which started in March 2009
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TNO Identifier
464997
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Ship Control Systems Symposium (SCSS 2009), 21-23 September 2009, Ottawa, Canada
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