Research on UE4 - based Visualization Simulation of Underwater Vehicle Polar Region Sailing

Abstract

With the continuous exploration of polar sea areas, the reliability and safety of polar navigation have become the top priority. Due to various influencing factors in the polar region, including sea ice, ocean currents, geomagnetism, gravity, etc., navigation equipment in the polar region cannot achieve the performance of the mid-low latitude region. Because of the limitation of the actual ship entering the polar region, the performance of navigation system in polar region cannot be fully verified. It is difficult to verify the performance of equipment on a real ship. In order to reduce the cost of the experiment while ensuring the accuracy of the verification and making the simulation training system available at the same time. Based on UE4(Unreal Engine4) to design a virtual 3D visual simulation platform of underwater vehicle that is able to simulate the six-degree-of-freedom(6-dof) motion of the underwater vehicle and verify the performance of navigation equipment in polar region. Verify the virtual simulation platform is able to simulate the movement of underwater vehicle in the virtual polar sea and realize the operation training simulation of underwater vehicle.