Distributed simulation is commonly used when there are a lot of different entity that act at the same moment within the same virtual scenario. federated systems are connected together through standards such as DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) or HLA (High Level Architecture). I made several exercises about the interconnection of simualtion platform, trying to reproduce the complexity that we can found in the real word using different systems at the same time. One example is the connection between Microsoft Flight Simulator and STK: the simulation of the flight dynamics in entirely demanded to MSF, while STK receive just the position/attitude data, without wondering how such data have been calculated. This allows the sharing of the calculation resources among several PCs, mantaining simple the system at architectural level.

Through distributed simulation each system or platform is free to interact with the other in the same virtual arena, giving the possibility to create very complex (and realistic) scenarios. A real experience I made was in the context of Finmeccanica MindSh@re group, that become an AGI case study

Posted on October 28, 2010