Recientemente, a consecuencia del boom tecnológico que ha revolucionado nuestro sector, hemos podido asistir a una verdadera carrera en los requisitos técnicos de los programas de adiestramiento, en términos de calidad gráfica, técnicas de modelización, número de entidades de simulación que son manejadas, interoperabilidad, capacidades de entrenamiento distribuido y conjunto, usuarios concurrentes y muchas otras características. Toda esta tecnología no sirve de mucho si realmente no se pone al servicio de los diferentes participantes en un programa de adiestramiento con la única finalidad de mejorar el proceso de aprendizaje. Así pues los instructores, alumnos, profesores, ISD, SME, responsables de formación, desarrolladores de los contenidos y muchos otros roles involucrados en un programa de adiestramiento deben poder participar proactivamente en el diseño y desarrollo de cualquier producto de adiestramiento. Muchas veces, lo más importante no es lograr desarrollar un sistema técnicamente muy complejo, sino que la combinación de recursos que participan en el programa de adiestramiento de como fruto una mejora del propio proceso de adiestramiento. Lograr una meta tan intangible como la descrita produciría una serie de beneficios tangibles tales como: • Producir profesionales mejor entrenados sin tener para ello que desarrollar nuevos activos de adiestramiento y formación (entendiendo por activos tanto los recursos humanos que intervienen tales como los instructores como los recursos técnicos tales como clases, simuladores, entrenamiento en vivo, courseware, así como el recurso del tiempo disponible para adiestramiento) • Incrementar el número de efectivos que puede recibir formación • Mantener o mejorar el nivel de conocimientos de los efectivos a formar • Racionalizar la producción de nuevos contenidos

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Building simulation and training systems with
COTS
NADS
Nextel Aerospace, Defence & Security
Jose M Lopez-Rodriguez
Business Development and Sales Director
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New Trends in Simulation …
 Simulators as network assets in Net-Centric federations of Systems.
 Demand for rapid deployment of training solutions based on COTS and
GOTS.
 More interoperability between simulators and real systems (1).
 Open Architectures and modular design for Simulators, looking for more
reusability, scalability and mantenibility (1)
 Improve capabilities for battlespace M&S. (1)
(1) Technological goals included in the SP MoD 2010 Strategy for Technology and Innovation (ETID)
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… brings new Requirements for M&S
Technology
 Plug&play simulation Architectures
 Distributed architectures with QoS
 Interoperate with NEC “clouds”
 Development based on existing repositories
 Interoperability between live, virtual and constructive simulations
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Our approach to these requirements…
Market Requests Nextel proposes
▪ Plug&play simulation ▪ Data centric design based on
Architectures open middlewares (HLA & DDS)
▪ Distributed architectures with QoS ▪ Use of DDS for simulation
▪ Interoperate with NEC “clouds” ▪ DDS as a common messaging
technology
▪ Development based on existing
repositories ▪ Model Driven Developments
▪ Interoperability between live, ▪ Cohabitation of HLA and DDS
virtual and constructive standards with other mil
simulations standards, like MIP.
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Our COTS portfolio
Tactical C4I
Middleware for Simulation
Interoperability: Simulation MDD tools for
Middleware:
Framework: Simulation:
NCWare NCWare Simware Simdeveloper
for Distributed for Simulation
Systems
OMG DDS v.1.2 / OMG DDSI / RTPS v.2.1
HLA IEEE 1516
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Our Technology in use SIMDEVELOPER
Simulation Simulation Federate SIMULATOR 2
Module 1 Module 2 SIMULATOR N
1
Federate Federate
SIMULATOR 1
SIMWARE
2 3
NCWare SIM NCWare RTI OTHER RTI
DDS DDS DDS HLA HLA HLA
RT Simulation Network HLA Simulation Network
RT SERVICE BUS (MIDDLEWARE)
SQL
DDS DDS DDS WS / SOAP
ODBC
NCWare NCWare NCWare
Information Information Information
Sensor APP C2 APP
System 1 System i System N
SENSORS C4I SYSTEMS OTHER CIS SYSTEMS
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Migrating to an Open Distributed Simulation Architecture
WEAPON1 PERISC. SONAR1
SONAR2
WEAPON2
WIU VISUAL
SISTEM 1
WEAPON3
CONTROL NAV
EWS SIM SENSORS
OTHER
SENSORS CONSOLES
SYSTEM2
SEABED RECORDER
ENVIRONM.
ACOUSTIC
TACTICAL ENVIRONM
ENVIRONM.
EM IOS VOICE
ENVIRONM COMMS
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Migrating to an Open Distributed Simulation Architecture
WEAPON1 SONAR1
WEAPON2 SYSTEM1
RT Simulation Middleware
WEAPON3 NAV
SENSORS
ACOUSTIC IMAGE
GENERATOR GENERATOR
(NCWare)
SEABED SONAR2
ENVIRONM
ACOUSTICAL CONSOLES
ENVIRONM
OTHER RECORDER
SENSORS
EM VOICE
ENVIRONM COMMS
TACTICAL IOS
ENVIRONM
WIU PERISC.
SYSTEM 1 SYSTEM 2
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Some advantages of an Open Simulation Architecture
DDS
WEAPON1 HLA SONAR1
- Concept of HLA Federation applied to
WEAPON2 DDS
HLA SYSTEM1
WEAPON3Internal Simulation Architecture. NAV
the
RT Simulation Middleware
DDS
DDS
SENSORS
DDS
ACOUSTIC
- Make easy the System level Design.
GENERATOR
IMAGE
GENERATOR
(NCWare)
SEABED HLA
SONAR2
ENVIRONM
- Rapid design and development based
ACOUSTICAL DDS
DDS CONSOLES
on Repositories and COTS.
ENVIRONM
HLA
OTHER RECORDER
SENSORS
-EM
Less risky and more cost-effective
HLA
VOICE
ENVIRONM
integration and testing.
TACTICAL
HLA
COMMS
IOS
ENVIRONM
-Saving costs and speed up time to
DDS
WIU PERISC.
market up to 50%
SYSTEM 1 SYSTEM 2
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Somes use cases : The ITM M&S
Development Environment
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Somes use cases : The ITM M&S
Development Environment
Development of Sim Assets Database Specialized Sim
Simulation Assets Configuration Mgment Components
Development of Sim Content Mgment Sim Entity with HMI,
Asset’s IOS. Web access business logic and data
MDD based on interfaces
SimDeveloper Independence of Sim
Enables reusability of runtime infrastructure
blocksets and other
libraries of Mathworks
products
Automatic code gen
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Somes use cases : The ITM M&S
Development Environment
Simulation Simulation
Model HMI
 HiFi dynamic Model  Parameter Control
 Event based during execution
Compliant with a State Parameter configuration
Machine in planning session.
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Somes use cases : The ITM M&S
Development Environment
NCWare Sim
Simulation Simulator
IOS
HMI
Simulation
Simulation SIMWARE Sim
Model Model Engine
Simulation
HMI
VR FORCES ENTITY
Simulation
Asset
Simulation VrForces
HMI GUI
RTI
Simulation VrForces Sim
Model Engine
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Somes use cases : Reusability of HLA legacy
code in DDS compliant systems
HLA HLA
federate federate
RTI
HLA
HLA DDS
Federation Domain
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Somes use cases : Reusability of HLA legacy
code in DDS compliant systems
HLA
federate
NCWare
RTI
HLA
federate
RTI DDS
HLA
HLA Domain
federate
RTI HLA
HLA
Federation
HLA
NCWare
Domain Gateway
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Wrapping up …
▪ COTS/GOTS based solutions are the next future for simulation
▪ Open architectures and compliance with standards enable the
development of a Simulator as a Federation of Simulation Assets
▪ Cohabitation of DDS & HLA should be a key driver for the
complete interoperability of simulation and real systems.
▪ SimWare is a very powerful tool for saving costs and speed up
the time to market of new simulation products.
▪ NCWare, alone or in combination with SimWare, enables the
reusability of legacy components in new developments.
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Open Architecture
Interoperability
Real systems & Simulators Blend
DDS
QoS
Full lifecycle COTS HLA
Real-Time
development
tools Automation
High Level Design
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For more information…
Jose M Lopez-Rodriguez
Business Development and Sales Director
http://www.nexteleng.es/microsite/ncware
jmlrodriguez@nexteleng.es
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