An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed
Abstract
This paper describes six functional extensions to the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) modeling and simulation environment: (1) the addition of modules to access OTB?s terrain database, (2) a supervised, on-line "batch-mode" interface to OTB for running experiments, (3) the addition of virtual reality (VR) agent proxies for integration with a low-cost, off-the-shelf VR engine, (4) a two-way OTB-agent bridge for the real-time query and control of OTB entities, (5) an unsupervised, off-line "batch-mode" interface for automatically loading, generating, reconfiguring, and executing experiments, and (6) the addition of new sensor model entities. These extensions enable the integration with OTB of C2 and multi-level information fusion algorithms that would not normally integrate with its event-based modeling and simulation engine. This paper describes the system architecture of the testbed and some of the research applications that demonstrate its use.
BibTeX
@conference{Giampapa-2005-9227,author = {Joseph Andrew Giampapa and Katia Sycara and Sean R. Owens and Robin Glinton and Young-Woo Seo and Bin Yu and Charles E. Grindle and Yang Xu and},
title = {An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '05)},
year = {2005},
month = {June},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997},
keywords = {C4ISR testbed, OneSAF, agent, multi-level information fusion, simulation, RETSINA},
}