Advanced Scene Generation Techniques

The growth in capabilities of Personal Computers over the past decade has been extraordinary. Until recently, large computational resource dictated the use of specialized hardware. With the phenomenal growth of capabilities of workstation grade personalcomputer systems, the range of potential applications that can be addressed with consumer off the shelf computational systems has expanded significantly. The hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) application space is no exception. The scene generation and facilitycontrol/dynamic simulation HWIL mission areas may benefit specifically from recent advances in the commercial computational systems.Leveraging the significant technology advances that are occurring in the commercial market will lower the costs of populating and operating HWIL test facilities, but more importantly, will shorten the facility upgrade cycle and lower the life cycle cost offacility computer support equipment.The successful completion of the Phase I goals defined in this proposal will set the stage for advancing the development and deployment of a common scene generation system. This technology would provide a common, proven test application to be used by bothcustomer and development contractor to facilitate correctness and reduce the risk of comparing non-like results, thus reducing the cost of deployment and development of a system. The PC scene generator will have many places of use in today's booming high-speed graphics oriented industry. One of the main impacts on the commercial industry will be the testing of single and multi-mode sensors. This technology can also be used formedical imaging, police surveillance, fir prevention/detection, auto collision avoidance systems as well as intrusion detection systems. However, the main goal is to perfect all techniques involved in the study, design, and development of the PC scenegenerator. This way the feasibility of potential commercial products can be properly accessed with respect to their impacts on today's society.