Title: NATO HLA Federation for Study of Air Vehicle Landings on Ships
Abstract: Abstract : In November 1997, the NATO Naval Armaments Group on Ship Design (NG/6) established a Specialist Team on Simulation Based Design and Virtual Prototyping (ST-SBDVP). The purpose of the Team is to share information on the benefits, risks, and costs of instituting the technologies and processes of SBDVP applied to the acquisition of naval warships. A specific challenge undertaken by the Team is an experience-based study of international simulation interoperability, by applying the NATO-recommended High Level Architecture (HLA) to a military operations problem with significance to ship design. The Team has chosen to focus on vertical landings on warships by helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an operation of national interest to each of the Team nations. This problem incorporates daunting physics and military operations issues, which are dependent on understanding system interoperability between the ship, air vehicle, air vehicle control, and the landing system. Further, sufficient understanding of interoperability early in the system design process can be leveraged to optimize the ship/aircraft design in consideration of landing operations. This problem is therefore particularly conducive to examination via interoperable modeling and simulation. Three objectives the ST has in undertaking its study are: (1) to identify and correct any interoperability (technical, process, or culture) deficiencies in the conduct of a joint, allied nation federated simulation; (2) to introduce ST member nations to the development and execution of a simulation federation using HLA; and (3) to make advances, via international cooperation, toward a validated simulation of an important and potentially dangerous military operation, which encompasses very complex physics.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: report
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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