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Repurposing Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) 3D Game Engines to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of EPA's Response Efforts
Citation:
Boe, T., S. Lee, W. Calfee, K. Ratliff, S. Ryan, E. Shumaker, N. Renna, K. Jones, J. Bohorquez, R. Zemonek, AND D. Cooper. Repurposing Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) 3D Game Engines to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of EPA's Response Efforts. Presented at EPA International Decontamination Research and Development Conference, NA, NC, November 01 - 05, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation will summarize: 1) EPA’s efforts to evaluate the use of 3D COTS game engines as potential modeling platforms; 2) their application in training emergency response personnel; and 3) the development of a next-generation modeling platform for holistically simulating large-scale contamination incidents and subsequent cleanup efforts.
Description:
In support of improving simulated training, EPA is evaluating the use of three-dimensional commercial-off-the-shelf (3D COTS) game engines for facilitating modeling, training, and exercise efforts for CBRN incidents. Today’s 3D COTS game engines rival (if not exceed) the capabilities of traditional research modeling platforms. These engines are capable of modeling physical systems and conditions in real time, such as entity collision, fluid, particle, and light dynamics. The modification of these engines to simulate dispersion, fate and transport, explosive models, and radiation attenuation could offer significant cost savings in the development of future decision support systems, environmental modeling tools, and training platforms. This presentation will summarize: 1) EPA’s efforts to evaluate the use of 3D COTS game engines as potential modeling platforms; 2) their application in training emergency response personnel; and 3) the development of a next-generation modeling platform for holistically simulating large-scale contamination incidents and subsequent cleanup efforts.