A Development Method for Distributed Virtual Environment for Commander's Awareness and Decision Making Training in Disaster Operations

Abstract

In order that the society to be in readiness for emergency such as severe earthquakes, it is important to introduce the capability of sharing the common pictures among the command and control systems of different organizations, and also it is essential to train the ability of awareness and decision making of commanders. This paper proposes a new method to develop distributed virtual environment for commander's decision making training systems in disaster operations. In this method, simulators are provided for each organization and each model which composes a real-world disaster simulation. Those simulators are integrated using the HLA (High Level Architecture), a standard interface for a distributed simulation. A prototype of the core software based on this scheme is implemented. Then, we demonstrate and confirm the applicability and efficiency of this scheme by introducing the evaluation result.