Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Game
This project demonstrates a co-simulation platform for strategic cross-sector infrastructure planning in a fictional design scenario. It includes three main player roles (agriculture, water, and energy) controlling four infrastructure sectors (agriculture, water, petroleum, and electricity). It uses IEEE Std. 1516-2010 High Level Architecture (HLA) for simulation interoperability.
This project uses a Maven build file (pom.xml) to configure most external dependencies. In addition, it requires a compliant IEEE Std. 1516-2010 High Level Architecture (HLA) runtime infrastructure (RTI). Unfortunately, most open source implementations do not have sufficient required features (synchronization points and save/restore). SIPG has been tested with Pitch pRTI version 5.4.5.0 and the pom.xml file assumes the environment variable PRTI_HOME points to its installation directory.
There are three separate classes to launch each player role: AgriculturePlayer, EnergyPlayer, and WaterPlayer. An optional fourth NullPlayer class does not control any infrastructure sectors but, by default, has greater visibility to top-level performance metrics. These classes will attempt to automatically connect to the RTI using default connection settings on launch.
Additionally, a SuperPlayer class includes all infrastructure sectors for testing. This class does not require an HLA implementation as there is only a single player and can be run as a standalone application.
This project was funded, in part, by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
P.T. Grogan (2014). Interoperable Simulation Gaming for Strategic Infrastructure Systems Design, Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. link: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/90169
P.T. Grogan and O.L. de Weck (2016). "Collaborative design in the Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Game," in 2016 Spring Simulation Multi-conference, April 3-6, Pasadena, CA.