Equipment Support Command Simulation Based on HLA

This paper analyzes the operational process of Equipment Support Command (ESC) and its information exchange capability with external environment. Consequently, the ESC federate is developed according to High Level Architecture (HLA) standards. This paper develops graphical modeling tool for workflow, and creates workflow model for ESC based on timed colored Petri net. By setting simulating environment, this tool can automatically create simulation models that can be executed in executable specification tool-ExSpect. Simulation models are integrated into Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI) by ExSpect's Component Object Model (COM). By deploying resources dynamically during simulating process, this paper displays the transformation of system state in animated cartoon interface, and analyzes the bottleneck and operational efficiency of ESC business flow. Furthermore, it proposes improvement measures for workflow of ESC.