Intelligent control of auxiliary ship systems
David H. Scheidt, Christopher B. McCubbin, Michael J. Pekala, Shon Vick, David Alger · 2002
The Open Autonomy Kernel (OAK) is an architecture for au-tonomous distributed control. OAK addresses control as a three-step process: diagnosis, planning and execution. OAK is specifically designed to support “hard ” control problems in which the system is complex, sensor coverage is incomplete, and distribution of control is desired. A unique combination of model-based reasoning and autonomous agents are used. Model-based reasoning is used to perform diagnosis. Obser-vations and execution are distributed using autonomous in-telligent agents. Planning is performed with simple script or graph-spanning planners. A prototype OAK system designed to control the chilled water distribution system of a Navy sur-face ship has been developed and is described.