Abstract: The relevance of the study is due to the need to create a universal reliable valid accurate method for determining the vessel's squat, since all existing methods, techniques, algorithms, formulas are limited in use and do not fully possess all the specified characteristics. The object of the study is the navigational safety. The subject of the study is the vessel's squat in shallow water. The purpose of the study is to form a list of problems to be solved for the effective implementation of the concept of an adaptive system for assessing the current and predicted values of the vessel's squat, and a brief description of the content of these problems. The methodological basis of the study is experiment and measurement, although the work directly presents not the research results obtained by these methods, but the formulation of problems to be solved using them. When substantiating the concept of an adaptive system, such scientific research methods as analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction were used. The novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of the concept of an adaptive system, the hardware of which, among other things, includes such a technical means as a three-antenna satellite compass. The study revealed that the current methodology for determining squat does not contain absolutely reliable and universal methods. At the same time, the system proposed at the conceptual level is also limited in its development due to the lack of a clear understanding of the further direction of the study and the associated set of problems to be solved. In order to eliminate this gap, a list of primary tasks for the evolution and development of an adaptive system for assessing the current and predicted values of the vessel's squat has been formulated, some of which involve conducting full-scale experiments.

Keywords: system, forecasting, computation, UKC, squat, navigational safety, ecological security, economic security, neural network, architecture