DC-ARM Supervisory Control System Development: Phase 1
Abstract
This report describes the first phase of work to develop technology for automated supervisory control of damage control (DC) aboard Navy ships. The primary performance goals of the Supervisory Control System (SCS) are to: enable situation awareness for a human supervisor to initiate preemptive actions and control damage by monitoring the automated response of ship systems. Phase 1 of the DC-S CS development addresses the logical architecture for control decisions and the physical and logical actions needed to enable effective situation awareness for damage control. Guidelines are defined for a modular control architecture to achieve, in a cost-effective manner, the goals of survivability, reliability, robustness, maintainability, and operability. The architecture for the control decision logic is defined from the level of individual components within the ship systems to the level of the total ship. A functional analysis method is then used to define the specific requirements of the individual control decision elements in the control system architecture. The method also defines complementary requirements for ship systems to support the control decision requirements. Design methods are defined so that ship system designers may apply the SCS technology effectively in Navy ships.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 26, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA379381
Entities
People
- M. Bradley
- R. Downs
- Sean Burns
- T. Lestina
- T. Sheridan
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory