Combat training system
A combat training system for carrying out and monitoring at least one shooting practice and combat scenarios, comprising: at least two components, with a first component being a firearm and a second component being a target object; a device for sensing position information of each of the at least two components; device for sensing spatial orientation information at least for the at least one firearm of the at least two components; and an information processor, in which position information of the at least two components and the orientation information of the at least one firearm is processed and transformed into at least result information. The at least two components each have a clock, which are time-synchronized with each other and each generate coded time signals with a component identifier which individualizes the respective component, and an event sensor is provided on each of the at least two components.
1 . A system for monitoring and managing shooting practice and combat practice involving firearms from which projectiles or shots are fired toward the target objects in which the firearms and target objects operate in a unified time system and a unified coordinate system during the shooting practice and combat practice comprising:
sensors individually associated with the firearms and the target objects for sensing a position of each of the firearms and each of the target objects operating in the unified time system and the unified coordinate system during the shooting practice or combat practice;
clocks, individually associated with each of the firearms and each of the target objects, which are synchronized and generate time stamps and position information in the unified coordinate system of the firearms and the target objects while operating in the unified coordinate system during which shots or projectiles are fired from at least the firearms and impacting the target objects;
event sensors, individually associated with the firearms and the target objects, which sense and time stamp when a firearm fires a shot or projectile toward one of the target objects and when the target object is impacted by the fired shot or projectile; and
a processor for processing the sensed time stamps for each of the firearms and the target objects operating in the unified time system which uniquely identifies the position of the firearms and target objects in the unified coordinate system when the events are time stamped involving the firearms firing the shots and projectiles toward the target objects in the unified time system in the unified coordinate system and the processor processes the time stamps of the sensed events and provides monitoring of the shooting practice and the combat practice and supervising the shooting practice and the combat practice; and wherein
the event sensors comprise at least one of an accelerometer, an acoustic sensor, a sound sensor, a deformation sensor, and a contact sensor individually associated with the firearms and individually associated with targe object.
2 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the event sensors for sensing the position information are part of the firearms.
3 . A combat training system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the event sensors sense spatial orientation information of the firearms which are part of each of firearms involving the shooting practice and the combat practice.
4 . A combat training system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the firearms include a firearm disabling system which is remotely controlled by the processor.
5 . A combat training system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the event sensors sense the position of the events and receive and evaluate terrestrial position or satellite generated position signals of the firearms and the target objects.
6 . A combat training system according to claim 5 , wherein:
the sensors orientate at least one of terrestrial, waterborne and an airborne remote control system.
7 . A combat training system according to claim 5 , wherein:
the event sensors sense spatial orientation information of the firearms and are part of firearms.
8 . A combat training system according to claim 7 , wherein:
the sensors include at least one of an inertial measurement unit, a magnetometer, a camera, an optical sensor, an ultrasonic transducer, a motion sensor, or a uwb location system.
9 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the event sensors sense spatial orientation information of the firearms and are part of the firearms involving the shooting practice and the combat practice.
10 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the sensors are at least one of terrestrial, waterborne and airborne remote control system.
11 . A combat training system according to claim 10 , wherein:
the sensors are in at least one of a radar system, an optical image and a pattern detection system, an ultrasound wave system, a range-resolving detection system (SODAR), a lightwave-based range-resolving detection system (LIDAR), and a motion capture system.
12 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the sensors each comprise at least one of an information transmitter and an information receiver.
13 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the firearms detect armed states of the firearms and generate information regarding the armed states of the firearms.
14 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the firearms include a firearm disabling system which is remotely controlled by the processor.
15 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
event sensors generate time-coded signals produced by one of the clocks.
16 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , comprising:
an optical projection system for generating the target objects virtually.
17 . A combat training system according to claim 16 , wherein:
the optical projection system comprises at least one of virtual reality glasses and a spatially positionable projection surface.
18 . A combat training system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the processor comprises at least one of a receiver for receiving position and orientation information of each firearm;
a calculator for processing and evaluating the at least received position and orientation information of each firearm;
the clocks are generated by the processor; and
a display for displaying result information of the shooting practice and the combat practice and further comprising a transmitting unit for transmitting information used for shooting practice and the combat practice.
19 . A combat training system according to claim 8 , wherein:
the clocks are associated with the processor.