Simulation Framework for Research of “ Intelligent ” Reconnaissance Systems

This paper describes a modular simulation framework that can be used for testing of “intelligent” reconnaissance sensor systems in various environments, weather conditions and time of day. The simulation framework is called MSSLab (Multi-Sensor Simulation Lab) and it allows for high fidelity sensor data simulation. One objective to develop this framework is to facilitate development, testing and evaluation of new signal processing algorithms in different scenarios. High quality sensor simulations require that all simulation models e.g. terrain models, target object, material classification, scene simulation and sensor models are of high quality. HLA (High Level Architecture) is used to integrate the different simulation models into a distributed and reconfigurable multi-sensor simulation framework.