Service oriented architecture (SOA) based mission planning integrating in synthetic simulation environment

UAVSEE was developed as a System-of-Systems (SoS) simulation environment for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). The architecture and multi-layer integrating of UAVSSE were introduced. Service oriented method (SOA) was proposed to the mission planning integrating in the context of UAVs simulation. An integrating framework based on SOA was designed to integrate common mission planning for the simulated vehicle and ground control system in UAVs simulation. Mission planning module was abstracted as a service, and encapsulated as common mission planning service through Web Services technology. With registration, discovering and binding, planning function could be dynamically integrated in simulation without changing other systems, and one planning system simultaneously could serve multi vehicles and ground control systems in simulation. Related technologies were demonstrated in the prototype simulation system. The experimental result shows that service oriented integrating will provide more efficient and effective mission planning integrating ability than HLA does for UAVs simulation.