A Fault-Detection System Approach for the Optimization of Warship Equipment Replacement Parts Based on Operation Parameters

Systems engineering plays a key role in the naval sector, focusing on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems throughout their life cycle; it is therefore difficult to conceive functional warships without it. To this end, specialized information systems for logistical support and the sustainability of material solutions are essential to ensure proper provisioning and to know the operational status of the frigate. However, based on an architecture composed of a set of logistics applications, this information system may require highly qualified operators with a deep knowledge of the behavior of onboard systems to manage it properly. In this regard, failure detection systems have been postulated as one of the main cutting-edge methods to address the challenge, employing intelligent techniques for observing anomalies in the normal behavior of systems without the need for expert knowledge. In this paper, the study is concerned to the scope of the Spanish navy, where a complex information system structure is responsible for ensuring the correct maintenance and provisioning of the vessels. In such context, we hereby suggest a comparison between different one-class techniques, such as statistical models, geometric boundaries, or dimensional reduction to face anomaly detection in specific subsystems of a warship, with the prospect of applying it to the whole ship.

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Systems engineering is crucial in the naval sector for designing, integrating, and managing complex systems. Specialized information systems are necessary for logistical support and sustainability in warships, but they require qualified operators. Anomaly detection systems, using intelligent techniques, can observe system behavior without expert knowledge. This study focuses on the Spanish navy's complex information system structure for maintenance and provisioning, suggesting the comparison of different techniques for anomaly detection in warship subsystems.