NPSNET: A Graphical Based Expert System to Model P-3 Aircraft Interaction with Submarines and Ships.

Abstract

The Computer Science Department at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California has developed a low-cost battlespace simulation system, known as NPSNET, to work on commercially available Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations. Initial work on NPSNET has concentrated primarily on ground-based forces with only limited work focusing on naval or maritime air forces. With the present movement of the military towards totally integrated joint force operations, there exists a need to expand existing modeling and simulation programs to include all aspects of military operations. This thesis takes a step in that direction by incorporating naval maritime air units into NPSNET, expanding its capability to include naval and Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) units. This work focuses on several areas of research, including modeling of the P-3 aircraft, aircraft motion control, aircraft ordnance ballistics modeling, interstation networking using the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol and development of an expert system to autonomously control aircraft behavior. Graphics, P-3, Expert systems, Torpedo ballistics, Sonobuoy ballistics, CLIPS.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271543

Entities

People

  • Dennis A. Schmidt

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Ballistics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Distributed Interactive Simulations
  • Expert Systems
  • Graphics
  • Ground Based
  • Military Operations
  • Simulations
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Robotics and Automation.