Sonar 3 VMSA Federate: User Guide and Technical Description

摘要

This federate provides a medium fidelity sonar model for Virtual Maritime Systems Architecture (VMSA) high level architecture (HLA) simulations. The model best represents towed array systems, but can be configured to model flank arrays as well. The Sonar model is coupled with an auto-detector/signal follower that creates VMSA Sonar tracks without an operator. While the federate is written in Java, the signal follower is provided only as a compiled Windows DLL. This limits the federate to the Windows operating system, either Windows 2000 or XP. This document describes the federate software, how to use it, and how to integrate the federate into DRDC Atlantic's VMSA execution system. As well, the software design and technical details are explained. This document covers version 3.0.1 of the Sonar federate.