Our Integrated Navigation Testbed is designed to allow the co-operative execution of all the components of a simulation. These are:
One or more navigation simulators configured as a mix of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAVs)
The Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI)
A number of mission planner tools and viewers.
Each of the navigation simulations is uniquely named and has its own configuration, which allows specific vehicles to be controlled and configured to perform different tasks.
The RTI supports data communication across the network within the High-Level Architecture (HLA) framework so all the components can be freely distributed across processors in a network to reduce processor loading.
The mission planner configures and hosts the execution of a navigation simulation providing a dynamically updated plan view of the trajectory.
Two types of viewers can be invoked:
VesselView - an OpenGL visualisation tool that provides an animated simulation-time pictorial view of vehicles in the environment in which they operate.
ChartView - a graphical package for displaying charts of the navigation simulator data for engineering purposes.
Both viewers are configured to select named instances of the navigation simulations for display to reduce clutter and improve data focus.