Concept, Architecture, and Design of a Stand-Alone Physics-Based Simulation Capability to Support Maritime-Air Littoral Tactics Development.

摘要

The Maritime Air Littoral Operations (MALO) Technology Demonstration Program (TDP) was undertaken by the Future Forces Synthetic Environment (FFSE) at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Ottawa to develop a modeling and simulation (M&S) based experimental environment to support the development and evaluation of maritime air operational tactics, doctrine and new concepts. The hypothesis being tested is that simulation can be used to evaluate Maritime Air tactics. A prototype for a Stand-Alone Physics-based Simulation Capability, termed the Synthetic Environment Research (SER) workstation, was designed and built in Phase one of the MALO TDP. The prototype was designed to support rapid experimentation within pre-configured operational scenarios and tactics alternatives, and to be employed by personnel at the CF Maritime Warfare Center during the early stages of concept development and experimentation. The SER consists of a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tool, the Satellite Took Kit from Analytical Graphics Inc., embedded within a MALO -- specific user application layer and interface that leads the operator through the experimental process of building scenarios to be investigated, modifying tactic variables, running and re-running a simulation, viewing data on programmed metrics, and visualizing the scenario execution.