Automatic path planning for improved combat simulation

Summary This report summarizes the results of a cooperation regarding terrain analysis between FOI and FFI (Norway) during 2014–2018. The work was done within the collaborative project Terrain Analysis and Synthetic Agents (TASA), under the technical agreement no. 4 FFI-FOI. The report describes a jointly developed method for path planning for fighting vehicles, including details regarding implementation, terrain models and integration of the developed functions in a simulation-based environment for military staff training and exercise. Moreover, the report summarizes the experience and recommendations from three demonstrations and workshops with military subject matter experts and researchers within modeling and simulation. The main results from the collaboration are a peer-reviewed IEEE Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA) conference paper and a C++ code base, successfully integrated in different simulation-based applications.