Patent ID: 8834163
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: F42B,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a computerized interactive simulation to a user at a simulation station communicating over a network, said method comprising: providing a computerized simulation of operation of the vehicle in a simulated environment; providing a computerized simulation of a weapon operating in the simulated environment; making a determination in said computerized simulation of an engagement of the weapon with the vehicle in the simulated environment; responsive to the determination of the engagement of the weapon, performing a computerized interaction modeling of the weapon with a model of the vehicle; determining as a result of said modeling interaction a damage model of the vehicle; simulating operation of said vehicle based on said damage model, wherein the computerized simulation of the vehicle includes storing physics data on a computer accessible memory coupled with a physics engine associated with the simulation station, said physics data defining physics parameters of a plurality of virtual objects in the simulated environment, and determining a position of the vehicle in said simulated environment with said physics engine based on the physics data, wherein the model of the vehicle further includes data defining a plurality of constituent parts of the vehicle, and the computerized interaction modeling includes a determination of the damage model includes determining for each part a damage data value, wherein the computerized simulation of the weapon is a simulation of a directed energy weapon, and the computerized interaction modeling includes determining a temperature of any part of the model that is exposed in the simulation to a directed energy beam hit the directed energy weapon, said temperature being determined using the physics engine of the simulation station or another physics engine by providing said physics engine with data corresponding to a mechanical analogue of the directed energy beam hit.