Abstract:

Battlefield environments are combat spaces that contain geographic elements such as terrain and roads. Road modeling and simulation is an important part of battlefield simulation and plays a key role in complex combat decision-making. Traditional road modeling is unable to handle the complex terrain conditions present in the field; hence, this paper proposes road modeling and simulation method for field environments. In particular, in order to support road modeling and simulation of complex terrain environments, road construction designs oriented to typical battlefield environments are proposed. This method divides the road network into different sub-models according to their characteristics and models them separately, improving the demand for realism in battlefield simulation. Then, the proposed method uses OpenStreetMap geographic information data to drive road network construction. The model offers real-time, high accuracy road information content and complete classification that can meet the needs of military operations and modeling simulations for typical battlefield environments. Secondly, using terrain elevation data, road construction rules, and other auxiliary information, the road height is adjusted to adapt to the complex terrain conditions of the battlefield and possible multi-level road network structures. Lastly, the introduction of a $ {G}^{2} $ continuous Hermite interpolation spline can flexibly represent the center line of the road and improves the reusability of the road model through grid deformation. Experiments show that the proposed simulation method can more reliably restore the real details of a road network to effectively fit complex terrain and improve the reusability of road models. Finally, it provides a feasible analysis angle and modeling method for researching geographic elements in battlefield environments.

Key words: procedural generation, road modeling, OpenStreetMap