Design of a resource advisor for the next-generation surface combatant

The purpose of this project is to investigate the development of a resource advisor for the next-generation surface combatant of the US Navy. Reductions in crew size for these future vessels and increases in automation are likely to overburden the operators of these highly interdependent dynamical systems. The integrated engineering plant (IEP) is a dynamical network of interdependent systems that provide services to the ship such as awareness, mobility, etc. The heterogeneous systems composing the IEP, i.e.: electric distribution, chill water, fire main, etc, trade resources between themselves and the optimum configuration of the system is a multi-disciplinarian problem exhibiting highly dynamic characteristics