Development of Expert System for the Shipbuilding

对造船专家系统进行了为期三年的研究。造船包括几十万个零件，一种设计只生产一艘船。由于大批量生产系统中的系统化经验不适用于造船，因此系统化被认为是极其困难的。然而，人工智能、三维实体造型和数据库管理系统的最新进展可能会为造船设计系统带来新的方法学。在本研究项目中，引入了专家系统作为关键技术，并将面向对象和面向约束的方法相结合形成了系统。1.船舶基础设计系统，2.线型光顺系统，3.三维实体造型系统，4.结构设计系统，5.隔板/壳体展开系统，6.工艺规划系统，7.调度系统，以说明本研究概念的有效性。

Research on the expert system for the shipbuilding was conducted for three years. Shipbuilding contains some hundred thousand parts and only one ship is produced by one design. As the systematization experiences in the mass production system is not applicable for the shipbuilding, the system atization is recognized extremely difficult. However, the recent advances in the Artificial Intel ligence, three-dimensional solid modelling and database management system may bring the new methodology for the design system for the shipbuilding. In this research project, the expert system is introduced as a key technology and the object-oriented and constraint-oriented approaches are combined to form the system. 1. Ship Fundamental Design System, 2. Lines Fairing System, 3. Three Dimensional Solid Modeller, 4.Structural Design System, 5.Partition/Shell Expansion System, 6.Process Planning System, 7.Scheduling System were developed to illustrate the effectiveness of the concept of this research.