SHIPBOARD PILOTING EXPERT SYSTEM. VOLUME 3. SPES SHIPBOARD EVALUATION PLAN; FINAL REPT. OCT 89-OCT 93

This document is the SPES Shipboard Evaluation Plan report for the Shipboard Piloting Expert System (SPES) project, MARAD contract DTMA 91-89-C-90031. The SPES project had three phases, with Phase 1 (0-15 months after contract start) activities centering on the requirements, design, and development of a standalone SPES. Phase 2 activities focused on Shipboard Integration and Test (15-32 months after contract start), and Phase 3 activities focused on an Operational Evaluation and Final Delivery of the SPES (27-47 months after contract start). In Phase 1, the initial SPES prototype was developed and documented. In Phases 2 and 3, the SPES prototype was verified and validated, transitioned to a shipboard configuration, and evaluated as a standalone system, and as a node in the Sperry Marine ExxBridge Integrated Bridge Project for Exxon Shipping Company. In August 1992, the SPES was installed aboard the Exxon Benicia, an Exxon tanker in the Valdez trade. This document is the Final Report for the SPES project. Volume 1 of this report describes the SPES, its knowledge representation and reasoning, and its integration and installation aboard the Exxon Benicia. Volumes 2 and 3 of this report, the appendices, contain the Phase 1 Report and the SPES Shipboard Evaluation Plan, respectively. This is Volume 3.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB94-183837 and PB94-183274. Sponsored by Maritime Administration, Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment.
• Corporate Authors:

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems
  110 Eighth Street
  Troy, NY  United States  12180

  Maritime Administration

  Office of Technology Assessment, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Grabowski, M
  • Sanborn, S
• Publication Date: 1993-10-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 114 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Artificial intelligence; Control systems; Data analysis; Expert systems; Marine engineering; Mathematical analysis; Position fixing; Ship pilotage; Systems engineering; Tankers; Water transportation; Workload
• Old TRIS Terms: Position(Location); Surface navigation; Tanker ships
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00666471
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MA-RD-840-93005
• Contract Numbers: DTMA91-89-C-90031
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 3 1994 12:00AM