The UCL Design Building Block approach (DBBA) to design is instead more a designer-centric approach to modelling and information management in an architecturally centred CAPSD approach. This approach has inherited social aspects of the wider research, design & procurement community in which they have been developed and applied. UCL network-based analysis sought to apply these abstractions as an aid to designer understanding. PSD has been identified as an example of sketching in ship design, with PSD representations being fluid/forgiving/functional, but limited by current PSD tools (including implementations of the DBBA).

Dr Mukti is examining the applications of these abstractions in a designer-centred sketching approach to CAPSD. The research objective is to develop and demonstrate a novel approach and software toolset that allows, “in-stride” application of developing abstraction, modelling and analysis approaches to early stage ship designs, developed in the typical timescale of UCL concept design projects, and providing an effective reply to the requirements for a sketching tool laid out by Pawling and Andrews (2011). It will also build on network based approaches that been applied to PSD for novel ship and submarine concepts including “motherships” for UXVs (Kouriampalis 2019) and submarine distributed systems (Mukti 2022).