David L. Pond

Date of Award

12-1992

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Martin R. Stytz, PhD

Second Advisor

E. Philip Amburn, PhD

Abstract

Analysts tasked to study satellites moving in space must often rely on photographs to conduct their analysis. Often these photographs do not adequately represent how satellites move in space, their spatial relationships, or their interaction with other satellites. What analysts need is a three- dimensional synthetic environment that depicts satellites as they actually move and interact in space. This thesis addresses the early development of the Satellite Modeler (SM), a system that allows analysts to study, satellite motion and maneuvering of computer aided design (CAD) models of those satellites in a three-dimensional orbit. The system contains equipment that allows analysts to view the models either in a head mounted display, on a high resolution monitor, or on a computer workstation monitor. Analysts can also video tape a session in the synthetic environment. A voice recognition system allows the analyst to give voice commands to the synthetic environment that modify model movement or his view of the models. The modeler also allows the analyst to script the movements of models to duplicate the movements of actual satellites in space.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GCS-ENG-92D-12

DTIC Accession Number

ADA258847

Comments

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