developing simulation & training solutions with cots

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Building simulation and training systems with COTS

Jose M Lopez-Rodriguez

Business Development and Sales Director

http://www.nexteleng.es/microsite/ncware

[email protected]

NADS Nextel Aerospace, Defence & Security

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New Trends in Simulation …

Simulators as network assets in Net-Centric federations of Systems.

Demand for rapid deployment of training solutions based on COTS and GOTS.

More interoperability between simulators and real systems (1).

Open Architectures and modular design for Simulators, looking for more reusability, scalability and mantenibility (1)

Improve capabilities for battlespace M&S. (1)

(1) Technological goals included in the SP MoD 2010 Strategy for Technology and Innovation (ETID)

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… brings new Requirements for M&S Technology

Plug&play simulation Architectures

Distributed architectures with QoS

Interoperate with NEC “clouds”

Development based on existing repositories

Interoperability between live, virtual and constructive simulations

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Our approach to these requirements…

Market Requests▪ Plug&play simulation

Architectures

▪ Distributed architectures with QoS

▪ Interoperate with NEC “clouds”

▪ Development based on existingrepositories

▪ Interoperability between live, virtual and constructivesimulations

Nextel proposes▪ Data centric design based on

open middlewares (HLA & DDS)

▪ Use of DDS for simulation

▪ DDS as a common messagingtechnology

▪ Model Driven Developments

▪ Cohabitation of HLA and DDS standards with other mil standards, like MIP.

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Our COTS portfolio

Tactical C4I Middleware forInteroperability:

NCWarefor Distributed

Systems

SimulationMiddleware:

NCWarefor Simulation

SimulationFramework:

Simware

MDD tools forSimulation:

Simdeveloper

OMG DDS v.1.2 / OMG DDSI / RTPS v.2.1

HLA IEEE 1516

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C4I SYSTEMS

SimulationModule 1

Simulation Module 2

Federate1

DDS HLADDS DDS

RT Simulation Network HLA Simulation Network

Federate2

Federate3

NCWare SIM

RT SERVICE BUS (MIDDLEWARE)

DDS DDS

NCWare

InformationSystem 1

SQLODBC

NCWare

Sensor APP

DDS

NCWare

NCWare RTI

HLA

SENSORS OTHER CIS SYSTEMS

SIMULATOR 2 SIMULATOR N

SIM

ULA

TOR

1

WS / SOAP

InformationSystem N

InformationSystem i

OTHER RTI

HLA

C2 APP

SIMWARE

Our Technology in use SIMDEVELOPER

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Migrating to an Open Distributed Simulation Architecture

WEAPON1

WIU

OTHER SENSORS

IOS

PERISC. SONAR1

CONSOLES

SISTEM 1

TACTICAL ENVIRONM.

NAV SENSORS

SONAR2

WEAPON2

EWS

WEAPON3

CONTROL SIM

SEABED ENVIRONM.

EM ENVIRONM

VOICE COMMS

VISUAL

RECORDER

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONM

SYSTEM2

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WEAPON1

WIU

OTHER SENSORS

IOS

PERISC.

SONAR2

CONSOLES

SYSTEM1

ACOUSTICAL ENVIRONM

NAV SENSORS

SONAR1

WEAPON2

ACOUSTIC GENERATOR

WEAPON3

SYSTEM 1

SEABED ENVIRONM

EM ENVIRONM

VOICE COMMS

IMAGE GENERATOR

RECORDER

TACTICAL ENVIRONM

SYSTEM 2

RT Simulation

Middlew

are(N

CWare)

Migrating to an Open Distributed Simulation Architecture

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WEAPON1

WIU

OTHER SENSORS

IOS

PERISC.

SONAR2

CONSOLES

SYSTEM1

ACOUSTICAL ENVIRONM

NAV SENSORS

SONAR1

WEAPON2

ACOUSTIC GENERATOR

WEAPON3

SYSTEM 1

SEABED ENVIRONM

EM ENVIRONM

VOICE COMMS

IMAGE GENERATOR

RECORDER

TACTICAL ENVIRONM

SYSTEM 2

RT Simulation

Middlew

are(N

CWare)

Some advantages of an Open Simulation Architecture

DDS

DDS

DDS

DDS

DDS

DDS

DDS

DDS

HLA

HLA

HLA

HLA

HLA

HLA- Concept of HLA Federation applied tothe Internal Simulation Architecture.

- Make easy the System level Design.

- Rapid design and development basedon Repositories and COTS.

- Less risky and more cost-effectiveintegration and testing.

-Saving costs and speed up time tomarket up to 50%

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Somes use cases : The ITM M&S Development Environment

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Development of Simulation Assets

Development of SimAsset’s IOS.

MDD based on SimDeveloper

Enables reusability of blocksets and other libraries of Mathworksproducts

Automatic code gen

Sim Assets DatabaseConfiguration MgmentContent MgmentWeb access

Specialized SimComponents

Sim Entity with HMI, business logic and data interfaces

Independence of Simruntime infrastructure

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HiFi dynamic ModelEvent basedCompliant with a State

Machine

SimulationModel

SimulationHMI

Parameter Control during execution

Parameter configuration in planning session.

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SimulationModel

SimulationHMI

SimulationAsset

SimulationModel

SIMWARE SimEngine

SimulationHMI

NCW

are Sim

SimulatorIOS

VR FORCES ENTITY

SimulationModel

SimulationHMI

VrForces SimEngine

VrForcesGUI RTI

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Somes use cases : Reusability of HLA legacy code in DDS compliant systems

HLA federate

RTI HLA

HLA Federation

DDS Domain

HLA federate

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Somes use cases : Reusability of HLA legacy code in DDS compliant systems

HLA federate

RTI HLA

HLA Federation

DDS Domain

HLA federate

NCWare RTI

HLA federate

RTI HLA

HLA Domain

NCWare Gateway

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Wrapping up …

▪ COTS/GOTS based solutions are the next future for simulation

▪ Open architectures and compliance with standards enable the development of a Simulator as a Federation of Simulation Assets

▪ Cohabitation of DDS & HLA should be a key driver for the complete interoperability of simulation and real systems.

▪ SimWare is a very powerful tool for saving costs and speed up the time to market of new simulation products.

▪ NCWare, alone or in combination with SimWare, enables the reusability of legacy components in new developments.

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InteroperabilityReal systems & Simulators Blend QoS

COTS

Open ArchitectureDDS

HLAFull lifecycle development tools

Real-Time

Automation

High Level Design

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For more information…

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Jose M Lopez-Rodriguez

Business Development and Sales Director

http://www.nexteleng.es/microsite/ncware

[email protected]

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