EMERGENCY RESPONSE SCENARIO SIMULATORS AND SIMULATION TECHNIQUES

• US 20140167953A1
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Government of the United States of America)
• Original Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Government of the United States of America)
• Inventors: Dunlop, William H., Koncher, TR, Luke, John, Sweeney, Jerry J., White, Greg
• Granted Patent: US 9,836,993 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/515
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system includes a signal generator operatively coupleable to one or more detectors; and a controller, the controller being both operably coupled to the signal generator and configured to cause the signal generator to: generate one or more signals each signal being representative of at least one emergency event; and communicate one or more of the generated signal(s) to a detector to which the signal generator is operably coupled. In another embodiment, a method includes: receiving data corresponding to one or more emergency events; generating at least one signal based on the data; and communicating the generated signal(s) to a detector.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a signal generator, the signal generator being operatively coupleable to one or more detectors; and

a controller, the controller being operably coupled to the signal generator and configured to cause the signal generator to;

generate one or more signals each signal being representative of at least one emergency event; and

communicate one or more of the generated signal(s) to a detector to which the signal generator is operably coupled.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a detector operatively coupled to the signal generator.

3. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein the signal generator is coupled to a receive path of the detector.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the signal generator comprises at least one of:

a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and digital-to-analog converted (DAC).

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the signal generator includes a waveform generator, and wherein the waveform generator is configured to generate one or more waveform signals.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the signal generator is further configured to generate the one or more signals based at least in part on legacy emergency event data.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the signal generator to generate the one or more signals based at least in part on one or more predetermined trigger parameters.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the signal generator to generate the one or more signals based at least in part on sampling one or more probability distributions.

9. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

an interface configured to couple with a computer readable storage medium;

a global positioning module;

a networking component; and

a power supply.

10. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least 50 of the detectors each having a signal generator associated therewith and operably coupled thereto, wherein the detectors are arranged in at least two detector arrays, wherein each detector array is configured to detect conditions indicative of a different type of emergency event.

11. A method, comprising:

receiving data corresponding to one or more emergency events;

generating at least one signal based on the data; and

communicating the generated signal(s) to a detector.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein at least one of the generated signals is a waveform signal simulating a sensor output of the detector.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the waveform signal is characterized by substantial consistency with the emergency event to which the signal corresponds.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the generating occurs in real-time during an emergency simulation exercise based at least in part on a predetermined simulation sequence.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the data comprises location information and temporal information, and wherein the generating is further based at least in part on one or more of the location information and the temporal information.

16. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising parameterizing some or all of the data, wherein the signal is generated based on the parameterized data.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein the parameterizing comprises a probabilistic analysis.

18. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein the parameterizing comprises:

determining a probability of one or more emergency events (occurring during a simulation based on the data;

generating a model of event occurrence during the simulation; and

generating a schedule of simulation events based at least in part on the model of event occurrence.

19. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the data is legacy data.

20. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the communicating is based at least in part on detecting existence of one or more predetermined trigger parameters of the one or more emergency events.

21. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein each of the generating and the communicating are based in part or in whole on one or more of a predetermined trigger condition, a predetermined event simulation sequence, and user input.

22. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising distinguishing the generated signal(s) from noise not corresponding to the emergency events.

23. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the generated signals are communicated as part of a continuous stream comprising noise from one or more unrelated events.

24. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

generating at least one of the signals for each detector in an array of the detectors; and

communicating the at least one generated signal to each detector in the detector array.