The Quest for an Interoperable and Scalable Open Simulation Platform.

1. Spanish MoD NOGESI Battle Lab
The Quest for an Interoperable and
Scalable Open Simulation Platform
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08‐09‐2014

2. Simulation standards are entering their 4th decade
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SIMNET
• First Distributed Simulation for US Army.
• Developed by DARPA in the 80’s
DIS
• Based on SIMNET
• IEEE 1278 std; NATO standard (STANAG 4482) until 2010
HLA
• Born in the 90’s
• IEEE 1516 standard since 2000
• NATO standard (STANAG 4603)
TENA
• HLA evolution for Test and training ranges.
• Design to improve reliability, interoperability and
performance over HLA
• An US DoD standard only
1980s
1990s
1990s
2000s

3. Us DoD made an exhaustive report to find out gaps : LVC Architectural Roadmap
Gateway solutions are difficult to develop, upgrade and maintain
Lack of Convergence of Simulation Architectures
Lack of common data models, protocols and data distribution
mechanisms
Performance requisites are not guaranteed
Lack of plug & play capability
Proprietary Architectures of the simulators
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50% of the costs
associated to
interoperability gaps
Más información en http://www.msco.mil/LVC.html

4. Why doing Distributed Simulation is so difficult?
Simuladores con
diferentes arquitecturas y
protocolos.
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Federacilon de
Simuladores

5. Right now SISO is working in different directions to improve this ….
Improving existing standards
DIS, HLA
Improving gateway architectures
Extending interfaces to the web
‐ Web interfaces in HLA
‐ New WebLVC standard
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How can I
deliver seamless
interoperability?

6. SISO LSA proposes convergence into a common architecture
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HLA
TENA
DIS
SISO LSA
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7. But SISO LSA is based on technologies and paradigms already tested…
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8. LSA concept is open: can be extended and integrated
Standardized Gateways can be included
Standardized data model can be used
New breeds of HLA and DIS can be incorporated
Web services can be used
Architectures in the cloud are not incompatible with the LSA architecture (MSaaS)
Standardized interface for simulation services can be added
Other simulation related standards like C‐BML/MSDL can be incorporated in the same
way
Robotic standards like JAUS or ROS can be incorporated
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LSA
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HLA
DIS Gateways Services C‐BML
Other

9. Applying SISO LSA to a Battle Lab: Spanish MoD NOGESI Lab
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This project is financed inside Programa Coincidente under
SDG –TECIN management . MoD.
NADS has carried out it collaborating with Systems Indra and
Marañosa Technology Institute (ITM).
Real Time Distributed Simulation Lab built over Simware
Integrating virtual simulators , HLA AND DIS compatibles
COTS
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10. NOGESI Project features
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NOGESI features:
Interoperability between simulation and operation systems
using DDSI protocol
Simulators development and maintenance using Data Centric
Arquitecture
Simulators deployment as services into HLA federation
HLA interoperability from different federates and COTS
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LGB Sim
Service
Missile Sim
Service
Sensor Sim
Service
Aircraft
Sim Service
Tactical C2 system
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NOGESI project
STAGE
Distributed
Simulation Services
DDS Simulation Bus
FAC virtual Sim
Simware RTI
SimWare
SimWare PowerLink
VBS‐2
SimWare RTI
Simware RTI Simware RTI
DIS Connector
VR‐FORCES

12. Main innovation in NOGESI is its LSA compliant technical architecture
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Sim
Asset
Servicios de
simulación LSA
STAGE
Red DIS RTI sobre DDSI
DDS de acuerdo con el Middleware de simulación
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GW
VR
Forces
Sim
Asset
GW
FAC
Sim VBS2
DIS Simulation
with GW to DDS Weapon Server
(DDS simulation)
HLA Federation
TALOS
(using DDS OPEN wire protocol)

13. NOGESI project main contributions
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Converging multiple standards in one platform
Providing a common wire protocol for everyone
Composing your federation with Services
Building a Reusability & Scalability example
 Plug&Play capabilities “out
of the box”
 Easy to reconfigurate
 Enable to use in CD&E
applications
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14. Apliying LSA architecture, NOGESI improves three key metrics in LVC simulation
Interoperability
Common Data Bus
based on DDS
Multi‐standards
DDS, DIS, HLA, CBML
Advanced simulation
services available,
like ownership
management
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Reusability
Sim Assets deployed
as federates in
Weapon Server
Federating HLA RPR‐FOM
compliance
simulators
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Composability
Simulation services
managed at entity
level in Weapon
Server
Data Centric
interfaces between
sim services
Simulation Control
datamodel in DDS

15. Más información sobre LSA
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– www.simware.es
– http://www.simware.es/index.php/lsa‐sg‐and‐simware
– http://www.sisostds.org/StandardsActivities/S
tudyGroups/LayeredSimulationArchitectureLSA
SG.aspx
– http://www.slideshare.net/jmlopezrodriguez/
– http://www.slideshare.net/jrmses/
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