An agent-based C4ISR testbed

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.