SBIR/STTR Award attributes
Some key elements in the Test & Evaluation (T&E) of modern munitions systems are live fire test events. These are conducted in a safely controlled manner to avoid human injury and minimize risk of damage to the equipment being tested. Ground truth about the munitions being fired is essential to assess performance of the system under test and to support engineering model development. MSI’s single-camera T&E software solution for identification and tracking is currently available in the market today, and is actively being used to quickly and accurately support ongoing test operations at DoD facilities (TRL 9) to reliably and accurately identify and track the test articles during live fire events. However, future test requirements including more advanced capability such as multiple targets and deformable modeling render the current technology a TRL 6. The current technology tracks a single missile or bomb to provide position, velocity, and attitude during the test. During the course of this proposed effort, the software will be extended to include deformable modeling (to support egress testing) and multiple object tracking (to support dispenser testing). These, and other enhancements identified in Phase I, will result in a Phase II product that provides an accurate and cost-effect data analysis tool to the test range engineering teams.
