Target Generation Facility (TGF)
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TGF Simpilots create realistic air-ground communications and control the simulated aircraft in a simulation. |
Our simulations can generate traffic, because of support from the Target Generation Facility (TGF). The TGF consists of several software programs that control the simulation scenario, generate simulated aircraft, allow simulation pilots to interact with the aircraft, and provide a quick look of traffic flow on its traffic display (XPVD). The simulated aircraft in TGF are quite realistic representations of their real-life counterparts. Our lab has worked closely with the TGF group to have aircraft perform the way air traffic controllers would expect them to behave in the real National Airspace System (NAS).
The TGF can drive almost all of the air traffic control laboratories at the William J. Hughes Technical Center as well as integrate data from fixed and motion based aircraft simulation facilities. When the TGF is used in other laboratories, data reduction and processing is often done on tools that are part of the simulated environment. To create a similar capability directly on the TGF data, we have collaborated with the TGF group to create a data reduction and analysis tool (DRAT) that provides our researchers with data that is useful for human factors evaluations.
