On Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Building Sea-Going Ships

Sea-going ships are autonomous complex objects that are intensively automatized due to safety and economic factors. The issue is complicated enough to entail a need for powerful methods such as Artificial Intelligence techniques. This repon gives a brief description of several problems of ship-building for which Artificial Intelligence techniques seem to be particularly suitable. They include: inventing so called diagnostic models on the basis of experimental data, power systems protective relying, unmanned power plant control system and merchant fleet management. The concept of the sea-going robot-ship is also discussed, and some general remarks on the Artificial Intelligence approach to problem solving and conclusions containing agenda for research are added.