Visualizing an Active Protection System Monte Carlo Simulation

Abstract

A recent undertaking by the US Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory to create a Vehicle Protection Software Suite for the modeling and simulation of active protection systems (APSs) has spawned many data-analysis efforts to better understand these systems. Furthermore, the software is being written to utilize the high-performance computing resources provided by the Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center. This report discusses a number of concurrent developmental efforts by the Data Analysis and Assessment Center to visualize an APS Monte Carlo simulation as well as improvements to current visualization applications to enable further analysis when the software suite matures. The visualizations include data-driven 3-D animations of the APS simulation as it plays out, 2-D charts and graphs for variable analysis of the simulation data, and a 2-D to 3-D hybrid visualization framework to coordinate different views of the entire data set for an all-encompassing analytical workflow. This report documents the visualization applications and some of the technical underpinnings to enable the data-analysis capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1081737

Entities

People

  • Michael Chen
  • Russell Binaco
  • Simon Su
  • Vincent Perry
  • Wendy Gao

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Department Of Defense
  • Guided Missiles
  • High Performance Computing
  • Information Science
  • Military Research
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Munitions
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations
  • Web Applications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development