Physics Engine Threading Design And Object-Scalability In Virtual Simulation

Keywords

Physics engine; Scalability; Virtual world simulation

Abstract

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is investigating technologies and methods to enhance the next generation of tactical simulation-based trainers. A primary research objective is to increase the number of simultaneous Soldiers that can train and collaborate in a shared, virtual environment. Current virtual programs of record cannot support the Department of the Army's goal to train at the company echelon (200 Soldiers) in a virtual environment and are limited to the platoon echelon (42 Soldiers) of concurrent trainees. ARL has identified scalability limiting factors to be the simulator's physics engine and threading architecture. In this work, two threading designs are evaluated on how they perform with high amounts of physics load to determine which thread design is optimal for future virtual trainers.

Publication Date

8-8-2016

Publication Title

Proceedings - 25th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2016

Number of Pages

136-141

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2016.37

Socpus ID

84983804158 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84983804158

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