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The Navigation, Guidance, and Control (NGC) Department at Sandia National Laboratories needed a sustainable replacement for a difficult-to-maintain home-grown hardware-in-the-loop simulation visualization tool for spin-stabilized and thrust vector controlled (TVC) rocket system projects. Created and maintained by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), SIMDIS, or Simulation analysis and Display), has the capability to display, both as a playback and in real-time, the simulation output of HWIL simulations. Although the playback of simulation data is mostly out-of-the box, real-time display required a custom plugin to be developed and several plugin data flow configurations were explored and the configuration that produced the best results found. Displaying both HWIL simulation truth data and navigational telemetry data side-by-side is possible, and by leveraging SIMDIS display capabilities such as these, the NGC Department has accelerated the flight software development, debugging, and verification and validation (V&V) processes. © 2012 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.

The Navigation, Guidance, and Control (NGC) Department at Sandia National Laboratories needed a sustainable replacement for a difficult-to-maintain home-grown hardware-in-the-loop simulation visualization tool for spin-stabilized and thrust vector controlled (TVC) rocket system projects. Created and maintained by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), SIMDIS, or Simulation analysis and Display), has the capability to display, both as a playback and in real-time, the simulation output of HWIL simulations. Although the playback of simulation data is mostly out-of-the box, real-time display required a custom plugin to be developed and several plugin data flow configurations were explored and the configuration that produced the best results found. Displaying both HWIL simulation truth data and navigational telemetry data side-by-side is possible, and by leveraging SIMDIS display capabilities such as these, the NGC Department has accelerated the flight software development, debugging, and verification and validation (V&V) processes. © 2012 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.