NDLI: Harvest: A Framework and Co-Simulation Environment for Analyzing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

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Author	Augeri, C.J. Morris, K.M. Mullins, B.E.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Air Force Inst. of Technol., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (Augeri, C.J.)
Abstract	Unmanned vehicles have the capability to transform military operations. One relatively unexplored application involves cooperative unmanned vehicle systems called sensor swarms. We propose a conceptual unmanned vehicle swarm: a host of armed reconnaissance vehicles enabling surveillance and targeting (HARVEST). A HARVEST swarm is theoretically capable of autonomous refueling, cooperative search, information fusion, and munitions employment. To enable cooperative swarm capabilities, we identify a set of individual unmanned vehicle services, e.g., localization, querying, and routing. The HARVEST concept, swarm capabilities, and unmanned vehicle services are embodied in our sensor swarm co-simulation environment. The goal is to improve simulation fidelity by integrating existing simulators used within the department of defense (DoD). The process of integrating multiple simulations is known as co-simulation; our design uses OPNET's external system definition (ESD) to achieve co-simulation. This is the same interface OPNET provides to enable co-simulations based on the high-level architecture (HLA) defined by the defense modeling and simulation office (DMSO). The simulators in the first sensor swarm co-simulation prototype are based on the technology behind NETWARS (OPNET) and the Java programming language. To integrate with OPNET, Java wraps the ESD C-based method calls. This co-simulation is known as a Java, OPNET, and C-Based Co-Simulation (JOCosim). The implementation details of and lessons learned from the first JOCosim prototype are described in this paper. We also briefly discuss the second JOCosim prototype currently under development. The newer version places all simulation control within Java versus just receiving data from OPNET. This capability is crucial to achieving the goal of the second prototype-integrating additional simulation tools such as MATLAB, FalconView, and digital terrain elevation data (DTED)
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
File Size	9291031
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	142440617X
DOI	10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302142
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-10-23
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Unmanned aerial vehicles Remotely operated vehicles Java Electrostatic discharge Virtual prototyping Prototypes Sensor systems and applications Reconnaissance Surveillance Weapons
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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