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The migration of a collaborative UAV testbed into the flames simulation environment

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

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Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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Future generations of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) will posses the ability to autonomously cooperate in teams to meet various military objectives. This is the focus of research at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, which developed MultiUAV, a research tool used to simulate UAV teams collaborating autonomously in various mission scenarios. In a previous effort, Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) mission capabilities were developed for MultiUAV and tested against Joint Integrated Mission Model (JIMM) scenarios. This architecture provided an accurate battlefield environment for small SEAD studies. To truly stress the collaborative algorithms in MultiUAV and build complex SEAD missions, a connection to a streamlined and user-friendly software tool was required. The FLexible Analysis Modeling and Exercise System (FLAMES) software has been chosen as the JIMM replacement. This paper describes the MultiUAV/FLAMES integration effort and provides results to illustrate MultiUAV conducting complex SEAD missions using battlefield information provided by FLAMES.

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

2429 pages

ISBN:1424405017

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L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Lynch CDiallo STolk ADiallo SGupton KPadilla JTurnitsa C(2013)Representing the ballistic missile defense system using agent-based modelingProceedings of the Military Modeling & Simulation Symposium10.5555/2500039.2500042(1-8)Online publication date: 7-Apr-2013
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