Missile Flyout Trajectory Visualization Tool

It is often difficult to readily determine many important, but subtle, responses of missiles from telemetry data alone. Therefore, accept missile simulation/telemetry data and reconstruct an animation of the events that occurred during the flight/engagement. In order to do this, DRT will define a generic set of simulation outputs which will cover the full range of anticipated flight characteristics. A file format will be defined allowing for maximum flexibility and ease of interface with available data. Data processing modules will be developed to accept trajectory data and reconstruct the flight of the missile using two- and three-dimensional time based animation. The user would interactively choose view angles, field of view and speed of replay (real-time, fast-motion, slow-motion). Depending on the missile flight characteristics of interest including accelerations, angles of attach, fin movements, multistage separation events, etc. Utilizing DRT's Sensor Performance Visualization software, sensor fields of view will be reconstructed. Data processing modules will be written so that they can be used as the building blocks during Phase II development of the fully operational simulation modeling tool. An initial user interface will be developed to allow visualization of data processing module output. Based on this simple interface, plans will be developed and refined for an optimal windowed interface to be developed in Phase II. DRT plans to utilize output data from its in-house 6DOF simulation package as well as simulation and telemetry data provided by DARPA. All software development will be undertaken using C/C++ to allow for maximum compatiblity with the computer world, and portability to Microsoft Windows and Windows NT. Development will emphasize creating a package which can run on a variety of computing platforms including 486 PCs for maximum usefulness. ANCITICPATED BENEFITS: The successful development of the DRT missile simulation post-processing tool will enable users in the government and private sectors to review missile flight data in a manner which is not currently widely possible. Either as a stand-alone package or combined with DRT's 6DOF