Accession Number:

ADA288577

Title:

Implementation of a Tactical Mission Planner for Command and Control of Computer Generated Forces in ModSAF.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Mohn, Howard L.

Report Date:

1994-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

137.0

Abstract:

The purpose of this work is to develop a three-level architecture for mission planning and task assignment to computer generated forces. This architecture is based on the Rational Behavior Model, which was constructed by Byrnes, et al. as a means of mission planning and control for autonomous robots. Extending this concept to address the problems of mission planning for computer generated forces allows the human greater flexibility and capability in controlling large numbers of computer generated forces in a large-scale virtual environment. The base system used in this proof-of concept prototype is the Modular Semi-Automated Forces system ModSAF, which was developed by Loral ADS for US Army Simulation, Training, and instrumentation Command, and written in C, using OSFMotif as the graphical user interface GUI system. A prototype mission planner was added as a library to this application, using the US Armys five paragraph operations order as the basis for a series of GUI editors. The editors provide information to the framework about which artificial intelligence modules operate on the data input from the order, generating ModSAF tasks that are subsequently executed by the company. Currently, the input is parsed directly into a series of company-level ModSAF mission tasks. The initial results from the prototype resulted in a significant simplification of task generation for the user. One operations order phase generated on the average 2.5 ModSAF phases, with no requirements for additional parameter changes. Further research is needed, however, to fully determine the resource implications of including Al modules in an already complex system.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• *COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• *PROTOTYPES
• *COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
• *WAR GAMES
• DATA PROCESSING
• INPUT
• MODELS
• MISSION PROFILES
• INTERFACES
• PARAMETERS
• ROBOTS
• THESES
• MISSIONS
• SELF OPERATION
• COMPUTER GRAPHICS
• USER NEEDS
• ALLOCATIONS
• EXPERT SYSTEMS
• COMPANY LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS
• BEHAVIOR
• ARMY
• TACTICAL WARFARE
• SIMPLIFICATION

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Command, Control and Communications Systems
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE