Low Cost GPS Receciver Helps Train Troops

Raymond A. Eastwood, Richard T. Sharpe

Abstract:	Current army battlefield training exercises for training soldiers employ a direct fire weapon simulation using the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), know in civilian terms as laser tag. However, the U.S. Army is inter- ested in making their training exercises more realistic by expanding them to include indirect fire weapons such as artillery, mortars, chemical and nuclear munitions and mines. All of these weapons can and are simulated by digital com- puter. To be used in actual battlefield training exercises, the simulated results must be broad- cast to the players who must be able to accu- rately ascertain their positions in order to determine if they are in the kill zone or near miss (injury) zone. Differential GPS is ideally suited for the position determination part of this problem. However, unlike the traditional missile and airborne range applications where high dynamics dictate high data rates and high computational through-put, the army battlefield training requirements require small size, long battery life, low data rates and distributed processing with an unlimited number of players. This paper describes a solution to the unique application requirements of the army using a low cost embedded GPS receiver.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 3rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1990) September 19 - 21, 1990 The Broadmoor Hotel Colorado Spring, CO
Pages:	671 - 677
Cite this article:	Eastwood, Raymond A., Sharpe, Richard T., "Low Cost GPS Receciver Helps Train Troops," Proceedings of the 3rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1990), Colorado Spring, CO, September 1990, pp. 671-677.
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