AUSA 95 DI Demonstration

At the October 1995 Association of the United States Army Conference in Washington DC, The Naval Postgraduate School and SARCOS Research Corporation demonstrated the interconnection of two different human mobility platforms with sensored upper bodies, a stick and throttle controlled human figure, and ModSAF based human icons. Of these varied control paradigms, one mobility platform was located remotely in Fort Benning, Georgia and the rest were at the conference. Communications with the remote entity was done over the Distributed Simulation Internet. Local communications was done via a three tiered hierarchical network scheme, the top two layers using the Distributed Interactive Simulation protocols. The lowest level protocol is device dependent. This paper covers a generic network structure developed to support the demonstrations.