EMMA: An Onboard Emergency Management System for
Ships
Charlotte Pii Lunau
The presentation of the Emma emergency management system describes the
functions and the implementation of the system. Emma is an onboard
decision support system, which detects and gives advice in case of hull
damages and fires. Emma is connected to a ship-wide set of sensors, and
is constantly monitoring the status of the sensors. Emergencies are
detected at a very early state and the location of the emergency is
identified. Advice is presented at a graphical user interface, where it
has to be acknowledged before actions are carried out. Furthermore, Emma
has stability information available on line. From the software point of
view, Emma contains two novel concepts; it is a model-based system and
it uses meta-objects to monitor objects in the model. The model contains
all ship entities as objects and models the logical and structural
aspects of the ship as relations between objects.
About the author
Charlotte Pii Lunau is an
assistant professor in Computer Science at Aalborg
university. Dr. Lunau holds a master and a Ph.D in computer science
from University of Copenhagen from 1982 and 1989 respectively.
Dr. Lunau has extensive industrial experience working with decision
support systems for ships and has developed decision support systems
for navigation, main engine monitoring, and emergency management.