Fault Isolation for Shipboard Decision Support

Fault detection and fault isolation for in-service decision support systems for marine surface vehicles will be presented in this paper. The stochastic wave elevation and the associated ship responses are modeled in the frequency domain. The paper takes as an example fault isolation of a containership on which a decision support system has been installed and it will be demonstrated that all the faults can be isolated. The paper shows how a shipboard decision support system could become highly reliable and comprise built-in supervision of the quality of the sensor signals that are crucial to the quality of decisions given to navigators.