LDP VIDEO TARGET SIMULATOR for Testing Mission Software in Combat Aircrafts

Abstract

The principle aim of this paper is to develop simulators which can help test the mission software available at the facility. This is achieved by developing a simulator which emulates the functionalities of LDP generated video, which is LDP Video Target Simulator. But to use this simulator standalone, it requires data as input which can emulate the functionality of data being received at mission computers from various systems, such as velocity, altitude, GPS, INS etc. These data are simulated using the LDP data simulator. This simulator is used to test the LDP Video Target Simulator, which is the objective of this project. Data fed from the LDP data generator is used to calculate the results, which indicates that the LDP video simulator shows realistic and accurate locations on the map, with only a few meters difference from the actual position from the provided parameters. The calculation of other parameters like distance, azimuth angle, slant angle from the simulation results is recorded to be accurate to 3 meters, which is discussed in detail in further sections.