ASA: A Simulation Environment for Evaluating Military Operational Scenarios

TL;DR

ASA is a comprehensive object-oriented simulation framework in C++ designed to model military aerospace scenarios, supporting tactic development, data analysis, and multi-machine distributed simulations for the Brazilian Air Force.

Contribution

This paper introduces the ASA framework with its distributed architecture, runtime model loading, data analysis tools, and batch execution capabilities, advancing military simulation technology.

Findings

Supports complex military scenario modeling

Enables efficient multi-machine simulations

Provides tools for post-simulation data analysis

Abstract

The Aerospace Simulation Environment (Ambiente de Simula\c{c}\~ao Aeroespacial -- ASA in Portuguese) is a custom-made object-oriented simulation framework developed mainly in C++ that enables the modeling and simulation of military operational scenarios to support the development of tactics and procedures in the aerospace context for the Brazilian Air Force. This work describes the ASA framework, bringing its distributed architecture for managing multiple simulation machines, a data analysis platform for post-processing simulation data, the capability of loading models at simulation runtime, and a batch mode execution platform to perform multiple independent executions simultaneously. In addition, we present a list of recent works using the ASA framework as a simulation tool in the air combat context.