RPA ELECTRONIC SOLUTIONS INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: The US Navy currently has many different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) deployed, but no d

Description

The US Navy currently has many different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) deployed, but no dedicated training systems to support them. Current training techniques tie up valuable resources of the deployed systems. A dedicated simulation system for each of the current and planned future UAVs would provide a valuable resource providing the required operator training offline, freeing up the actual device. Creating a unique training and simulation system for each UAV would require multiple contracts, each duplicating many efforts common across all platforms. An approach that can be readily adapted to all platforms, allowing common elements to be incorporated and different functions easily exchanged is highly desirable. An approach that treats the various features and functions across the various platforms as available services to the simulator, providing a means to readily connect such differing functions to one another via user defined configurations allows for a high amount of reuse across the required training devices. An adapted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is proposed herein that would provide this and more, including advanced training task definition for specific straining scenario generation.