UxV Simulator Using Image Parameter Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current unmanned vehicle system (UxV) simulators lack realism due to differences between synthetic and real-world images, failing to accurately simulate the performance capabilities and environmental conditions of actual UxV systems, which affects the training experience and preparedness of operators.
Innovation Solution
A UxV system simulator that uses a computer processing device to display synthetic images, extract graphic image parameters, and compare them with reference values to determine if commands can be executed, adapting to the performance capabilities of the real sensing unit and simulating realistic scenarios, including malfunctions, to increase the similarity with real UxV operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If synthetic images are used in the simulator, then training can be conducted without actual UxV systems, but the images differ from real-world images reducing simulation realism
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates synthetic images that replicate the visual characteristics, parameters, and environmental conditions of real-world images captured by actual sensing units. By copying the essential features including graphic image parameters, contrast values, color values, and environmental factors, the simulator achieves realistic training scenarios without requiring physical UxV systems, thus resolving the contradiction between cost reduction and simulation realism.
2Ease of operation
If the simulator uses simplified command execution logic, then operation is easier, but it fails to accurately simulate sensing unit performance capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements command execution logic that evaluates multiple graphic image parameters including contrast values, color values, edge detection products, and image segmentation products. By changing the parameters considered in command execution decisions and comparing them against reference values from real images, the simulator accurately reflects sensing unit performance capabilities while maintaining operational simplicity through automated parameter-based decision rules.
3Reliability
If multiple simulators are created for different sensing units, then each sensing unit can be simulated accurately, but the complexity and cost of the training system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal simulator platform that can accurately simulate multiple different sensing units through a single system. By using parameter-based command execution logic that compares graphic image parameters against adaptable reference values, the simulator can be configured to match the performance characteristics of various sensing units without requiring separate physical simulators for each unit, thus reducing system complexity while maintaining simulation accuracy.
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AI summary
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a Ux V system simulator. According to some examples synthetic images are display on the display device, the synthetic images showing an artificial representation of an environment in which operation of a Ux V is being simulated, the images are shown as if viewed from a vantage point of an imaging payload located onboard the Ux V; the images are processed to extract thereform values of one or more graphic image parameters; responsive to a command issued with respect to the synthetic images, the extracted values are compared with respective predefined reference values; A simulation of the issued command is executed only if the comparison between the extracted values and respective reference values complies with at least one predefined condition, thereby increasing similarity between the operation of the simulator and the operation of the real UAV system being simulated.