Dual-Use Visualization Tools For Aircraft System/Subsystem Performance Assessments

"CSR's approach to providing a low-cost, Dual-Use PC-based Visualization Tool set for Aircraft System/Subsystem Performance Assessment will couple the network communications mechanism provided by the High-Level Architecture (HLA) protocols with CSR's 3Dvisualization real-time GPS Simulator interface technologies. CSR will define an HLA Federation within the GPSView framework for access to system avionics state data for real-time and post test visualization and analysis within a 3D DTED virtualenvironment. The virtual scene shall be capable of displaying up to four real-time vehicle state data whose data originates either within GPSView's scaleable six-degree-of-freedom models or is obtained from the HLA network. GPSView virtual environmentshall also display HLA Federation Object Model data to portray the state of additional simulators (jammers, emitter, vehicles, etc).GPSView's FOM definition will allow participating federates to exchange dynamic state information of the GPS simulator and attached instrumentation through the HLA RTI. Accurate timing information (critical for dynamic models within a networkedsimulation) will be provided via GPSView's interfaces to a high fidelity GPS constellation simulator and CSR's GPSCom's avionics instrumentation system. CSR will investigate adding high speed SCRAMNet or reflective interfaces to communicate with theavionics subsystem hardware-in-the-loop high performance homogeneous or heterog