Tasmanian Devil: An Application of the High Level Architecture in the Distributed Mission Training Domain

摘要

The Tasmanian Devil project is a cooperative effort by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), Air Force Research Laboratory Warfighter Training Research Division (AFRL/HEA), and USN Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility (ACETEF) Aircraft Simulation - Manned Flight Simulator (MFS). The purpose of the project is to gain experience in the application of the HLA in the distributed mission training domain. The multi-service federation development team developed and demonstrated two simple, parallel service federations including aircraft training simulators using a common 2vX air-to-air training event. Each federation implemented a common federation design that was developed over the course of the project using the Federation Execution and Development Process (FEDEP) as a roadmap. Specific project objectives include: (1) implementation of HLA interfaces for the F-16 and F-18 simulators, an ordnance server, and a cockpit radio simulation; (2) beta testing of RTI NG; (3) first use of a VxWorks version RTI; (4) use of same FOM in two federations with two different mixes of federates; (5) use and assessment of agile FOM interfaces; and (6) examination of issues related to an evolutionary and persistent federation. This paper describes the results and lessons learned from the Tasmanian Devil project.