Model-based control reconfiguration: a shipboard system example

The ability to reconfigure a ship's engineering plant in response to changing mission or equipment conditions can dramatically increase a ship's capability and survivability. In our previous work (1999, 2000), a model-based reasoning framework for the integrated control/reconfiguration and diagnosis of discrete event systems was proposed. By applying this framework, we present an approach that integrates multiple shipboard systems and provides resourceand diagnostic-driven reconfiguration at multiple system levels, such as mission-level, process-level, and component-level. Several operation scenarios are studied to illustrate the reconfigurations of shipboard systems based on the changing objectives and diagnoses.