Empowering Africa's Next Generation: The AI Leadership Blueprint
Michael.conroy
1. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Simulation for Multi-Decadal Projects
(Constellation)
Bill Othon
Mike Conroy/Rebecca Mazzone (February 2010)
And Many others before (Monell/George/Adams/Boyce)
Used with Permission
2. Who Are We?
• Mike Conroy
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Manager, Constellation, SE&I, SAVIO, Software SIG,
Modeling and Simulation Team (MaST)
– Used to:
• Lead CxP Data Presentation and Visualization (until Feb, ‘09)
• Lead Kennedy Operations Simulation
• Office of Chief Engineer Engineering Processes Team (ISE)
– Several other 3 letter words as well
• Rebecca (Bec) Mazzone
– Manager, Constellation, SE&I, SAVIO, Software SIG,
MaST, Data Presentation and Visualization (DPV)
– Used to:
• Lead Distributed Observer Network Project within DPV
3. Our Time Lines…
• Apollo First Lunar Launch
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Mike was there
– No Bec Yet
• Shuttle STS-1
– Mike was in college, trying to be a NASA Co Op
– Still No Bec, Getting Close
• Constellation
– Mike will be gone before first Moon Launch
– Bec will retire before Constellation does.
– This is by far the most complex System of Systems
• Technology, Organization, Interfaces, Tools, Partners
4. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
One Problem
Products Outlive People, Teams,
Tools, Organizations and
Programs
5. Problem Detail…
• CxP is made up of multiple Projects.
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
• These Projects are in various Lifecycle Phases.
– Some have hardware being built today, some will not
produce systems for years
• These Projects need to be able to work together
for at least the next 50 years.
– Multiple generations of humans, teams, programs,
partners and tools.
– They need to share to be successful
6. Important Elements to Share/Save
• Share and Save the KIDS
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Knowledge – Decisions, Experiences, Expertise
– Information – Reports, Recommendations, Rationale
– Data – Numbers, Pictures, Models, Equations
– Sets – From various CxP and partner teams.
• The Knowledge part is really hard
– It is in peoples heads; they are rather attached to them
7. Where do we start
• Understand the KIDS
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– What do they look like
– Where to they live
– How do they play with each other
– How do we make it easier for new KIDS to play too
– How do we protect them from each other (IP Issues)
– How do we best preserve them for the future
• Today we would like to share the MaST approach
8. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
MaST Approach
Views on KIDS
Steps Taken
Examples
9. MaST View of Knowledge
• It is created through experiences .
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– What did they look at? How did they use it?
– Who was involved? What did they learn?
– What did they know when they started?
– What tools did they use? When? Which Versions?
What Inputs?
• It lives in the people involved in the experience.
– The test team, the analysis team, the decision makers
• It is by far the hardest component to manage.
– It is very often based on “Being There”
– Everyone cannot “Be There”, some are not born yet
10. MaST View on Information
• It is distilled from the data provided by the tools.
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Analysis Results
– Recommendations
– Supporting Rationale
– Risk Assessments
• It lives in the documentation provided by the
process and the associated CM systems
– Test Results, Test Reports, Presentations
– These tools have demonstrated their ability to publish
their information for use by others
11. MaST View on Data
• Data comes from tools being used
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Pro-E for the flight vehicles
– Arena and Extend for the integrated supply chains
– Delmia for the integrated process analysis
– IMSim (Trick) for integrated flight simulations
– ScramNET for Launch Vehicle dynamics
• Data lives in the files and CM systems
– DDMS(s), Common Model Library(s), WIKI(s)
– These tools can publish data for use in other systems.
– Note: This is usually where Intellectual Property (IP)
issues show up.
12. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
The Path Taken
13. MaST Goal
• Make it Possible, then Easy, then Desirable to
use our capabilities.
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Seek out the obstacles and replace them with well
planned solutions that address lifecycle needs for as
many people as possible.
– Make solutions so efficient and effective that they help
from day one.
– Make people, teams and projects part of the solution.
• Recognize that our Leadership has Priorities
– Bask in the glow of successes for something like 45
seconds before starting work on our next success
14. Investigate Prior Work for Tools
• Copy or Adopt is easier than both buy and build.
– National Research Council
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Center Simulation Tools
– Conferences, Workshops, Research, DoD
– OCE Engineering Process Initiatives (3 letter words)
• Some of this work is in Constellation Today
– HLA for Simulation to Simulation communication
• Foundation for IMSim
– Delmia for Process Development
• In use by Ground Ops and Ares, rumored for Orion
– Shared Visualization Environments
• Foundations for Data Presentation and Visualization
15. Find Where the KIDS Live
• Look at a sample of Constellation Tools
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Where are KIDS stored, how do they flow in CxP?
– Identify how to get them out, or at least get access?
– Normalize so others can see if their KIDS can play
• We noticed some tool/location groupings
– Some KIDS live in Physics Based Tools
• System State Information, Structural Information
– Some KIDS live in Physical Environment Tools
• Temporal / Spatial Information
– Some KIDS also live in Supply Chain Tools
• What you need when you need it (Next PM Challenge)
16. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Physics Based KIDS
17. Physics - System State Information
• Primarily related to the Flight activities
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Launch Preparations, Flight and Post Flight
– Start with Guidance, Navigation and Control
– Extend to Flight Dynamics as needed
– Extend wherever else is needed.
• Physics Based Description of Motion
– Physics Based Launch, Ascent, Dock, Entry, Descent,
Landing, Recovery, Retrieval
– Couple with High Resolution Graphics For Human in
the Loop Test and Evaluation
18. For the Physics Example…
• Take Ares, Orion, Ground Ops, LAS and ISS
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Teach the KIDS to talk to one another
• MAVERIC and ANTARES on Flight Side
• Ground Operations Simulation
• LAS Simulation and ISS Simulation
– Provide infrastructure to let People and Simulations
talk to one another
• High Level Architecture, Trick, DS Net, DON
– Provide the ability to share the new KIDS created with
existing and future generations
• Let us show you how it works…
19. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
LAS
Ares 1 Launch (IMSim)
GO
Ares
Orion
20. US / Orion Stage Separation (IMSim)
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Ares Orion
21. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Orion
Orion to ISS Docking (IMSim)
ISS
22. Distributed Review and Storage (DPV)
IMSim
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
States
DPV
Users
23. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Physical Environment KIDS
24. Physical – Temporal Spatial Info.
• Primarily related to the Ground Ops activities
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Operability Assessments and Optimization
– Systems Integration
– Launch Pads, Boosters, Vehicle, Access Platforms
– Work Stands, Crane Envelopes
– Human Factors, Reach, Loads
• Note: there is more than one type of Ground…
– Lunar Architectures
– Surface Systems (Lunar, non-Lunar)
– Surface Concepts
25. For The Physical Example
• Ground Ops Pulls KIDS together
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– CAD, Concepts, Models and Processes from Orion,
Ares, Ground Systems (includes Legacy Data)
• Ground Ops integrates in Delmia (with IT)
– All data pulled into one environment
– Some data sets so big cannot be loaded anywhere
else, teams come to Kennedy to see their data
• MaST supporting export of KIDS from Delmia
collaborative engineering efforts to share, store
and preserve.
26. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
OJIVE Panel Study (Delmia)
27. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
DELMIA OJIVE Export to DPV
28. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
OJIVE HF Detail (Delmia)
29. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
OJIVE Delmia HF Detail (DPV)
30. Ares 1X, Sep Analysis Integration (DPV)
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
31. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
GO Orion Processing Sim (Delmia)
32. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Lunar Architecture Concepts (DPV)
33. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Find How the KIDS Play
Preserve the KIDS for the Future
34. How KIDS Play
I am
SAM
1. Someone provides initial authoritative simulation or source data
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
2. MaST Shares SME 3. MaST Publishes Models
across Projects and/or Data Sets
with IMSim, Monte-Carlo,
4. Analysis Teams Use Data,
DPV and/or RF, SME, Com,
DES Apply Expertise, Iterate, DES, IMSim,
DES. Internal Sims,
Create Models and Data Trajectory,
First Process, Abort,
DPV Analysis Second & Off Nom, DPV,
Analysis other Analysis
Third
IM Analysis Fourth
Sim Analysis
Sim Data
NeXIOM
Interop.
5. Simulation Data
Result(s) to CM and DM with IS* (still need to tell IS)
IS for
CM/DM Validate Against Flight
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* Strong possibility related to MSDB and CML
35. Preserve KIDS for the Future
• Standard IS and ICE Systems
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Getting more and more services every day
– Well tuned for Data and Information
– Knowledge is a little different
• On the Knowledge Side, you need to be able to
re-experience the learning process
– Since much of what we are doing is simulation, this
means re-experience the simulation that helped
develop the Knowledge.
– However, simulations have a 3 to 5 year lifespan
– But, if we can save the Simulation……
36. Save the Simulation
• This is a Key Mission for the MaST DPV (Data
Presentation and Visualization) Element.
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Simulators provide a description of the 4-D data that
represents the simulation used to make decisions.
• Can also provide key measurements and images for display
• Will soon be able to provide relevant Meta-Data
• The Simulation can be replayed for team,
analysis or after long term storage
– Without need for the simulation infrastructure
• Goal is to be able to do this forever
– We have already started
37. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
IMSim/Delmia Simulation and DPV
38. Conclusions
• Maybe the S is really Simulation
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
– Knowledge
– Information
– Data
– Simulations
• MaST is a small part of how Constellation is
dealing with multi-decadal issues.
– There are many others.
• What we presented is alive and at work today
– There is more we did not have time to present.
– We will get that next time.
39. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Questions?
40. MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Back Up Deck
41. M&S and the System Lifecycle
MaST – CxP Modeling and Simulation Team
Subjective Assessments Management DPV IMSim
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• QFD Systems Engineers
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• AHP T
• System Engineering Tools
Systems Engineers
System Analysts
Constructive Assessments Operators DPV IMSim
• Cost – Complete Life-Cycle ign DES SAM
• Risk – Flight, Development, RMS Des
• Conceptual / Prelim Engineering Systems Engineers In Heavy
Performance Capabilities System Analysts Dev. Use
Operators
Designers
Operator in the Loop Assessments Manufacturers
• Ground st DPV IMSim
• Flight Sims Te DES SAM
• Crew
• Data Rich Simulation & Visual
Systems Engineers
Operators
Designers
Hardware- and Software-in-the-Loop Manufacturers DPV IMSim
Assessments
• Test Program Def & Refinement
Test and Verification
DES SAM
Analysis, Modeling and • Hardware & Software Testing
Simulation support • System Integration Modeling
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life cycle, supporting a Op
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DES SAM
In Service Operations Assessments
wide range of • Operations Ramp-up Ramp-down
customers • Upgrades and Improvements
• Anomaly Resolution
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