Advanced Building Rubble Simulator

Building rubble plays a major role in urban combat operations. Inability to model its effects on the environment greatly reduces a simulation’s fidelity and its training affectivity. Despite the clear need for robust rubble simulation, the state of the art in the military simulation industry fails to deliver on this problem. UtopiaCompression (UC) and Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training, and Support (LM STS) together, with UC’s extensive background in computational intelligence, computational vision, adaptive and multi-resolution 3D surface and volumetric modeling and GIS technologies and LM STS’ expertise in urban operation simulation, create a perfect team to solve this problem. Additionally, LM STS brings a technological asset; the Ultra High Resolution Building Simulator (UHRBSim). The UHRBSim’s proven ability to simulate building damage and rubble pile creation in constructive, live, and virtual simulation environments will be extensively exploited to create a novel and technologically superior rubble simulator. In this proposal, we present enhancements to the UHRBSim that will provide a robust, multi-resolution, physics based, rubble generation and flyout simulation. For Phase I, we will undertake the objectives presented in the proposal to produce a system design and an incremental implementation plan for the UHRBSim based Advanced Rubble Simulator.