Cooperative autonomous behavior of aggregate units over large scale terrain

Author

Marti, Jed

Author_Institution

Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

26-27 Mar 1990

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Experiences with an object-oriented simulation system, the RAND Integrated Simulation Environment (RISE) and two projects, the Advanced Geographic Experiments project (AGE) and the Surveillance Systems Analysis model (SUSAN), are described. The system incorporates digital terrain, roads, railroads, rivers, conceptual terrain entities, autonomously behaving objects, computer graphics and animation, interactive user interfaces and multiprocessing. The author emphasizes autonomous behavior over complex scripts generated by human players, thus greatly shortening the scenario preparation time required of other such models. The system emphasizes portability and speed and exhibits significant scale-up capabilities-tens of thousands of objects rather than hundreds

Keywords

cartography; computer graphics; digital simulation; geography; object-oriented programming; AGE; Advanced Geographic Experiments project; RAND Integrated Simulation Environment; RISE; SUSAN; Surveillance Systems Analysis model; aggregate units; animation; autonomous behavior; autonomously behaving objects; complex scripts; computer graphics; conceptual terrain entities; cooperative autonomous behavior; digital terrain; human players; interactive user interfaces; large scale terrain; multiprocessing; object-oriented simulation system; portability; railroads; rivers; roads; scale-up capabilities; Aggregates; Analytical models; Animation; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Large-scale systems; Object oriented modeling; Rivers; Roads; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, 1990., Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2043-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIHAS.1990.93920

Filename

93920