Composite assets for use in multiple simulation environments

• US 20090271160A1
• Filed: 04/25/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cubic Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intific, Inc. (Cubic Corporation)
• Inventors: Nielsen, David, Copenhagen, Keith, Pollini, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,010,327 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/00 Simulators for teaching or training purposes for the use of weapons F41; computing aspects G06; protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

One of a plurality of description elements for a scenario is attached to a composite asset. The composite asset comprises one or more data sets. Each data set is associated with a simulation. And, a simulation asset is generated for a scenario based at least in part on the composite asset.

Claims

1. A composite asset, comprising:

one or more data sets, wherein each data set of the one or more data sets is associated with a simulation type; and

wherein the composite asset is to be translated into a simulation asset for use in a simulation system associated with the simulation type for a scenario.

2. A composite asset as in claim 1, wherein an optional description element is able to be attached to the composite asset.

3. A method for generating a simulation asset, comprising:

attaching one of a plurality of description elements for a scenario to a composite asset, wherein the composite asset comprises one or more data sets, and wherein each data set is associated with a simulation type; and

generating a simulation asset for a scenario based at least in part on the composite asset.

4. A method as in claim 3, further comprising generating the composite asset based at least in part on one or more assets specific to one or more simulation types, wherein the simulation type is one of the one or more simulation types.

5. A method as in claim 3, further comprising receiving the composite asset.

6. A method as in claim 3, further comprising storing the composite asset.

7. A method as in claim 3, further comprising receiving a description of the scenario, wherein the description comprises the plurality of description elements.

8. A method as in claim 3, further comprising receiving an environmental data.

9. A method as in claim 8, further comprising attaching the composite asset to a tag associated with the environmental data.

10. A method as in claim 8, wherein the environmental data comprises one of the following:

elevation data, reconnaissance photography and other data, cultural feature data, geospatial annotation data, land use data, land cover data, celestial mechanics, meteorological data, or situational intelligence.

11. A method as in claim 3, wherein generating includes associating a parameter of the composite asset with the simulation asset.

12. A method as in claim 3, wherein generating includes associating a property of the composite asset with the simulation asset.

13. A method as in claim 3, further comprising providing a deployable simulation system including the generated simulation asset for the scenario.

14. A method as in claim 13, wherein the deployable simulation system is one of a plurality of deployable simulation systems.

15. A method as in claim 14, wherein the plurality of deployable simulation systems simulate the scenario each from a perspective associated with each one of the plurality of deployable simulation systems.

16. A method as in claim 14, wherein a first deployable simulation system of the plurality of deployable simulation systems and a second deployable simulation system of the plurality of simulation systems communicate information between each other while executing.

17. A method as in claim 3, wherein the scenario comprises one or more of the following:

a military mission, a hostage rescue, an assault on a building, an invasion of a port, an emergency situation, a disaster situation, a flood situation, a hurricane situation, an earthquake situation, and a fire situation.

18. A method as in claim 3, wherein the simulation comprises one of the following:

a ground combat simulation, a human face and expression simulation, a deception detection simulation, a fixed wing aircraft simulation, a rotary wing aircraft simulation, an instrumentation simulation, a maritime simulation, a hospital logistics simulation, a medical process simulation, or a medical procedure simulation.

19. A method as in claim 3, wherein the composite asset comprises one of the following:

a truck, a person, a building, a weapon, an aircraft, a helicopter, a grassy terrain representation, or a tank.

20. A method as in claim 3, wherein the description element comprises one of the following:

an area of operation, a list of teams, a list of actors, a team, an actor, a piece of equipment, an operation time, a piece of meteorology information, a scenario intent, a scenario goal, a scenario situation, or a piece of scenario intelligence.

21. A system for generating a scenario simulation asset, comprising:

a scenario authoring tool, wherein the scenario authoring tool attaches a scenario description element to a composite asset, wherein the composite asset comprises one or more data sets, and wherein each data set is associated with a simulation; and

a simulation generation tool, wherein the simulation generation tool generates a simulation asset for a scenario based at least in part on the composite asset.

22. A computer program product for generating a scenario simulation asset, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

attaching one of a plurality of description elements for a scenario to a composite asset, wherein the composite asset comprises one or more data sets, and wherein each data set is associated with a simulation; and

generating a simulation asset for a scenario based at least in part on the composite asset.