The Artificial Intelligence applied to CAD/CAM Systems for designing the future Naval Ships

摘要

At this time all industrial designs are made by Information Technology (IT) tools, as Computer Aided Designs and Manufacturing (GAD/CAM), maintained and sustained with suitable databases and with lifecycle management of the information. To address the challenge of the Artificial Intelligence (Al) for designing better Naval Ships, it is necessary the CAD/CAM tools to adapt in different manners. The difference items of a Naval Ship should not be autonomous objects that decide by themselves, but they should be supervised by a central system that takes into account the product as a unique entity. A Naval Ship is a product with a huge value, but also has a vast importance for what it contains, so it cannot be left to the edge of technological autonomy. It is necessary to have a higher responsibility and this responsibility must be of a human intelligence. Future Naval Ships must be connected to be Smart thought Internet of Things (loT) technology. The connection of smart devices within a Warship must be human controlled. The control should start from the design tools because they control the shipbuilding process, from the early stages of the design up to operation management through detail and production stages. The collection of design systems, Product Lifecycle Management tools and other devices must be inter connected among them and will be part of the Al platform for the Naval Ships. The information shared in the scope of the Al must be managed by the human along the whole lifecycle of the Warship, starting from the beginning of the initial design. This need requires the CAD tools to be prepared with specific characteristics to handle that information.