TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Materials/Processes

ACQUISITION PROGRAM: PMS 392

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OBJECTIVE: Enable Engineers and planners to collect digital data of the "as is" layout of shipboard spaces using a dimensionally accurate digital 3D imaging system. The captured digital data would accurately depict the color, texture, and configuration of ship equipment (including type and location). These images can be readily converted into engineering drawings or other technical work documents and stored to provide virtual data sharing support for engineers and planners. "As is" data captured would serve as inputs to a feature recognition tool that would aid designers in modeling the shipboard spaces and subsystems therein. Scan data, models, and drawings are managed in a design and technical data management environment which consists of various enabling capabilities for distributed processing, intelligent information management and distribution, program management, and life cycle engineering and support-related activities.

DESCRIPTION: Prior to the execution of submarine maintenance work, extensive engineering and production planning is required. This planning involves one or more manpower-intensive ship checks prior to the submarine entering the depot for repairs or modernization. Ship checks are necessary to obtain accurate ship configuration, since rarely do baseline ship drawings accurately reflect the current configuration of a ship. Typically, ship construction drawings depict a particular system or systems, but do not show all equipment and structures in a particular area. The result is that ship checks normally take a significant amount of time and resources to fully develop engineering changes and production documentation necessary for the depot level work. This effort would use existing technology to build an engineering process for capturing, manipulating, analyzing and sharing the data using digital information.

PHASE I: Develop a system design for distance support shipboard maintenance utility. This system should have a digital 3D scanning device combining images and measurement data, and engineer coded information, an automated analysis process, and automated technical data package generation.

PHASE II: Develop and test the distance support digital information capture System including applications in readiness, logistics and maintenance with performance assessment in actual work environments.

PHASE III: Prepare a user friendly maintenance system for use by shipboard personnel to perform distance support maintenance in civilian and military work environments.

PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL/DUAL-USE APPLICATIONS: This system could be applied in any work environment, where structure�s change such as complex nuclear and non-nuclear spaces; architectural structures; buildings, factories, and other physical plants; and historical sites where preservation or configuration change is important to document.

REFERENCES:
1. McAllister, David; Woodrow Robins, "True three-dimensional imaging techniques and display technologies" 15-16 January 1987, Los Angles, California, Chairs/Editors: sponsored by SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering; in conjunction with the Center for Applied Optics /University of Alabama in Huntsville; v. 761;

2. Sorby, S.A.,K.J. Manner, B.J. Baartmans "3-D visualization for engineering graphics" published in 1998 by Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 07458

KEYWORDS: virtual ship check; product lifecycle management; digital data capture; 3D data analysis

TPOC: fernando pereira
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