CITIUS

Military | CD&E  |  LVC Simulation | C4I | ROBOTICS

Simware provides the foundation for the simulation platform used in CITIUS R&D project. .CITIUS (Command and Control for Interoperability of Unmanned Systems) is a R&D project made by a team led by Spanish Naval system integrator Navantia in which NADS as lead the simulation package.The main purpose of this project is to experiment with different options to integrate unmanned vehicles in a naval combat system. This project is a R&D effort of the consortium to mature new technologies that help to meet the future for Naval Operations: Network Centric operations involving cooperation between C2, robotics and simulations.

This project has been used as the test-bed for Simware 2015 release, especially for the new features included in Simware Web , Simware LVC and Simware Record&Play extensions.

​Citius presents many challenges to the state of the art in interoperability between operational systems and between these and simulation systems:
  • How we are going to be able to interoperate heterogeneus systems, made by different providers?
  • How we are going to be able to manage from a console in the combat system an autonomous system, for which we don’t know now his specification?
  • How can I go to a SoS architecture,  valid for integration of any kind of system, Real or Simulated?
  • How can I leverage simulations to speed up development and integration times?
  • How can I embed simulation assets into an operational system for virtual prototyping and testing?

The answer to these questions it is in the architecture: Citius leverages standards, already implemented and new ones. Citius is based only on standards to interoperate C2,robotics and simulation systems. The frontier of simulation and operational standards is erased here. We don’t talk about a sim std or an operational one, we use the best standard for each application. As examples: standards designed for robotics as JAUS are also used by the simulations and others as C-BML or MSDL, designed in origin for interoperability between C2 and  sim systems, are used also to integrate the combat system and the control stations of the robots, as we will see now.

Using this architecture, Citius is able to leverage a common simulation platform to every stage of the life cycle of the SoS. Some examples:
  • While integrating the CMS with the Naval robotic system, the control station is available but the real drone doesn’t. In this case a virtual prototype of the real naval drone is provided with a simulation in order to start the integration and avoid delays.
  •  when this integration is completed, the real drone arrives, but without some of his sensors: for example the radar. In this case, a simulated radar must be integrated as a virtual sensor into the real platform. Because we don’t have a real radar, simulated tracks are provided by a HLA COTS.
  • When we are doing the testing at a system level, scalability tests can be performed, combining virtual and real drones in the same testing scenario. Same simulation assets will be employed in this case.
  • When training, the same infrastructure could be reused integrating the real equipment as Live simulators (control stations for the robots and consoles of the combat system
CITIUS PAPER IN SISO SIW 2014
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CITIUS PRESENTATION IN SISO SIW 2014
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