Integration and tuning of performance control parameters of a vessel in order to meet decarbonization goals

A data processing system adapted for tuning a vessel control model to meet decarbonization goals, the system comprising:

• a host computing platform comprising one or more computers, each with memory and one or processing units including one or more processing cores;
• network interface circuitry disposed in at least one of the computers and providing, to programmatic modules executing in the host computing platform, data communications services to other computing devices from over a data communications network;
• persistent storage coupled to the host computing platform storing therein both a set of decarbonization models, each correlating deployment into a vessel of a set of one or more accessories and a reduction in carbon emissions resulting from use of the set of one or more accessories, and also a base performance model for the vessel, a specified set of control inputs for the vessel, and observed ones of the carbon emissions from the vessel responsive to the specified set of control inputs for the vessel;
• and,
• a tuning module comprising computer program instructions enabled while executing in the memory of at least one of the processing units of the host computing platform to perform:
• loading the base performance model for the vessel from the persistent storage into the memory of the host computing platform and selecting one of the decarbonization models in the persistent storage;
• computing a new integrated performance model for the vessel modeling new performance metrics resulting from the deployment of the one or more accessories of the selected one of the decarbonization models, and comparing the new performance metrics to a minimum standard of performance metrics for the vessel;
• and,
• on condition that one of the new performance metrics fails to meet the minimum standard of performance metrics, identifying a corresponding one of the accessories in the set impacting the one of the new performance metrics, incrementally applying an adjustment to the identified corresponding one of the accessories until the one of the new performance metrics is determined to meet the minimum standard of performance metrics, simulating the new integrated performance model in order to predict resulting carbon emissions and storing the resulting carbon emissions in the new integrated performance model in the persistent storage.

A computing device comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions stored therein, the instructions being executable by at least one processing core of a processing unit to cause the processing unit to tune a vessel control model to meet decarbonization goals by:

• loading from persistent storage into memory of a computing platform, a base performance model for a vessel, the base performance model modeling observed performance metrics of the vessel corresponding to a specified set of control inputs for the vessel, and corresponding observed carbon emissions from the vessel responsive to the specified set of control inputs for the vessel;
• selecting a decarbonization model in the persistent storage, the decarbonization model correlating deployment into the vessel of a set of one or more accessories and a reduction in the carbon emissions resulting from use of the set of one or more accessories;
• computing a new integrated performance model for the vessel modeling new performance metrics resulting from the deployment of the one or more accessories and comparing the new performance metrics to a minimum standard of performance metrics for the vessel;
• and,
• on condition that one of the new performance metrics fails to meet the minimum standard of performance metrics, identifying a corresponding one of the accessories in the set impacting the one of the new performance metrics, incrementally applying an adjustment to the identified corresponding one of the accessories until the one of the new performance metrics is determined to meet the minimum standard of performance metrics, simulating the new performance model in order to predict resulting carbon emissions and storing the resulting carbon emissions in the new integrated performance model.