On application of some artificial intelligence methods in ship design

Abstract

In the paper were presented examples of use of some intelligence tools such as a neural network, expert system and relational database to ship design. The neural network of back-propagation of errors was applied to select required power of ship main propulsion system on the basis of ship main parameters. Results obtained by using the network were compared with resulting values for similar ships found in Access database application. To aid design of the main propulsion system and ship power plant automation fuzzy logic was applied as an element of Case Based Reasoning (CBR) method in Exsys expert system as well as a few methods for selection of similar ships, elaborated by the authors.