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Extending the ONESAF Testbed into a C4ISR Testbed

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, garof+{at}cs.cmu.edu

Katia Sycara

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, garof+{at}cs.cmu.edu

Sean Owens

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, garof+{at}cs.cmu.edu

Robin Glinton

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, garof+{at}cs.cmu.edu

Young-Woo Seo

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, garof+{at}cs.cmu.edu

Bin Yu

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, garof+{at}cs.cmu.edu

Charles E. Grindle

School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Michael Lewis

School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

This article describes how the modeling and simulation environment of the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) v1.0 has been extended to enable the testing of heterogeneous algorithms that are being designed for real-world C4ISR applications. This has been accomplished by building an architecture that extends functional and logical components of the OTB system in the following ways: the use of the OTB Compact Terrain Database for terrain analysis and preliminary threat assessment, the addition of the RETSINA-OTB Bridge for the real-time query and control of OTB entities, and the addition of new DIS-based sensor entities for interoperation with Command and Control algorithms, to name a few. This article illustrates how to make a few small but general extensions to a modeling and simulation system to create a larger testbed system with minimum impact on the native system and with great potential for the range of applications that can exploit it.

Key Words: Multi-level information fusion • multi-agent systems • terrain analysis • RETSINA • OTB

SIMULATION, Vol. 80, No. 12, 681-691 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0037549704050348


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