A sonar contact integrated manoeuvre evaluation and recommendation system

The sonar contact integrated manoeuvre evaluation and recommendation system is designed by formulating the locally optimal (best), next manoeuvre to provide situation assessment, tactical reasoning, and data visualisation tools. SCIMERS is designed to perform five fundamental functions: 1) gather information from a variety of sources and assemble them in a working database; 2) resolve and fuse uncertain, incomplete and conflicting contact information for geosit compilation; 3) reason using contact and environmental information to perform situation assessment and WHAT-IF testing; 4) generate manoeuvre recommendations that satisfies goals ranked by the user; and 5) concisely display recommendations and all necessary, supporting information. SCIMERS has been developed as an at-sea decision aid, hence all functions must be performed in near real-time. This paper provides a technical overview of the SCIMERS concept of operations as well as description of the functional modules.