Design of 3D Animation Builder with HLA Based Distributed Simulations

Abstract

MATLAB has been widely used for providing a variety of functions and tools in engineering computing, numerical analysis, modeling and visualization. In particular, through 3D animation, MATLAB has advantages for M&S (Modeling & Simulation). High Level Architecture (HLA) is a general standard for interoperability and reusability in M&S. 3D animation has been used in the distributed simulations for the simulation analysis. In the distributed simulations, objects or entities continuously occur changes. Each change requires modifying its 3D animation objects or entities. It would be a problem in larger simulation environment. This paper proposes the method of an automatic-generate-3D-animation builder in MATLAB. The 3D-animation builder supports advantages of the HLA based distributed simulations. In this paper, we introduce design of a 3D-animation builder. We also present the example of an HLA-based simulation with the 3D-animation builder that could fully support the advantages of HLA simulation.