A Computational Steering System for Studying Microwave Interactions with Missile Bodies
J. Edward Swan II, Marco Lanzagorta, Doug Maxwell, Eddy Kuo, Jeff Uhlmann, Wendell Anderson, Haw-Jye Shyu, and William Smith. A Computational Steering System for Studying Microwave Interactions with Missile Bodies. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2000, pp. 441–444, IEEE Computer Society Press, Ocrober 2000.
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Abstract
This paper describes a computer modeling and simulation system that supports computational steering, which is an effort to make the typical simulation workflow more efficient. Our system provides an interface that allows scientists to perform all of the steps in the simulation process in parallel and online. It uses a standard network flow visualization package, which has been extended to display graphical output in an immersive virtual environment such as a CAVE. Our system allows scientists to interactively manipulate simulation parameters and observe the results. It also supports inverse steering, where the user specifies the desired simulation result, and the system searches for the simulation parameters that achieve this result. Taken together, these capabilities allow scientists to more efficiently and effectively understand model behavior, as well as to search through simulation parameter space. This paper is also a case study of applying our system to the problem of simulating microwave interactions with missile bodies. Because these interactions are difficult to study experimentally, and have important effects on missile electronics, there is a strong desire to develop and validate simulation models of this phenomena.
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BibTeX
@InProceedings{IEEEVIS00-css,
author = {J. Edward {Swan~II} and Marco Lanzagorta and Doug Maxwell and Eddy Kuo
and Jeff Uhlmann and Wendell Anderson and Haw-Jye Shyu and William Smith},
title = {A Computational Steering System for Studying Microwave Interactions
with Missile Bodies},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2000},
location = {Salt Lake City, Utah, USA},
date = {October 8--13},
month = {Ocrober},
year = 2000,
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
pages = {441--444},
abstract = {
This paper describes a computer modeling and simulation system that supports
<em>computational steering</em>, which is an effort to make the typical simulation
workflow more efficient. Our system provides an interface that allows
scientists to perform all of the steps in the simulation process in parallel and
online. It uses a standard network flow visualization package, which has been
extended to display graphical output in an immersive virtual environment such as
a CAVE. Our system allows scientists to interactively manipulate simulation
parameters and observe the results. It also supports <em>inverse steering</em>,
where the user specifies the desired simulation result, and the system searches
for the simulation parameters that achieve this result. Taken together, these
capabilities allow scientists to more efficiently and effectively understand
model behavior, as well as to search through simulation parameter space.
This paper is also a case study of applying our system to the problem of
simulating microwave interactions with missile bodies. Because these
interactions are difficult to study experimentally, and have important effects
on missile electronics, there is a strong desire to develop and validate
simulation models of this phenomena.
},
}