Shipboard Dimensional Analysis Tool (SDAT)

Shipboard Dimensional Analysis Tool (SDAT) was developed to enable transportability assessments of candidate vehicle designs aboard Naval ships prior to prototyping. SDAT integrates three-dimensional (3D) ship and vehicle data, enables users to place and visualize vehicles and their path within ship vehicle stowage spaces and on ramps, enables collision detection based on a user-defined clearance, assessing physical fit and loading paths, take measurements, and visualize emplacement of vehicle restraints in a 3D virtual environment. The Design Mill Team will continue to develop SDAT to accurately render surfaces in sufficient detail and expand capabilities to visualize full 360-degree panoramic images and high-resolution imagery. Additionally, the team will enhance the analytic toolsets to enable analysis and valid conclusions by Program Office and Test organizations regarding transportability. Given a significant volume of 3D data and varied sources, integration of the data is a unique challenge, the team will overcome this by building a cloud-enabled utility that can stream high density point cloud data and imagery for interaction in real-time. Design Mill will enhance the features and capabilities of SDAT with the development of an Instructional Module, enabling the use of SDAT within a classroom environment and providing capability to insert Instructors into a 3D digital twin of ship stowage spaces for site familiarization and load planning utilizing a combination of augmented and virtual reality technologies. Finally, and importantly, commercialization focus will be on bringing capabilities for enhanced cloud visualization coupled with SDAT’s encroachment collision analysis to warehousing and industrial markets, and on aviation and maritime cargo shipping to optimize load planning and stowage.