Agent controlled Information Exchange for Integrated Ship's Bridge Systems

The progress of the standardising process in Integrated Navigation Systems and Integrated Bridge Systems established by the IMO enhanced the harmonising of the electronically devices. The information overflow reduction is one of the expected results. The more of installed bridge sub systems allows the displaying of additional navigational information by the HMI. In consequence the process adequate information selection is an essential and necessary task in ship's bridge automation.The following paper describes a data fusion oriented approach for information handling on integrated ship's bridge systems using agents. A JDL data fusion model was used for the ship navigational data handling. First experiments supported by data from a Voyage Data Recorder, extern knowledge data bases and various defined information layers will be discussed. The goal of the investigation was the information relevance evaluation in the navigational process current circumstances.