RTI Consulting Services has played a key role in the success of hundreds of complex middleware applications. Our experienced team has been integral in the design, implementation or customization of applications in a variety of industries.
Several RTI Services customer examples are listed here. Please contact us for more examples in your particular application area or industry.
Northrop Grumman Common Link Integration Processing (CLIP) is a Tactical Data Link aggregator enabling integration between current tactical data link systems and the IP-based systems under development. RTI Services helped architect, design, develop, and test a software product that "mediates" between platforms such as the B-1 and B-52 aircraft and the CLIP. This product was the first NESI DDS Compliant product. RTI continues to work with Northrop Grumman to support this product and program.
Automated Trading Desk, LLC (ATD) uses RTI middleware as the foundation of its market-data distribution infrastructure. ATD is updating its market data infrastructure to more cost-effectively cope with data volumes that are currently growing 50 percent annually. ATD uses RTI to distribute real-time data from direct-exchange and Electronic Communications Network (ECN) feeds to its price-prediction engines, automated trading applications and order-management system.
A global industrial automation company that had been using RTI middleware for data distribution on the factory floor began adding smaller, cheaper processing boards to their system, and needed these boards to distribute data. However, the boards had only a small amount of memory, and the RTI middleware was too large. Working with RTI, the customer came up with a list of a subset of features they would need for these boards. RTI designed and built a small footprint version of the middleware with only the features required by the customer, and which could communicate with the full scale version of RTI middleware. The lightweight version was delivered on spec and on time, and is now deployed in more than 15,000 units per year.
Flying Fox, built by Autonomous Vehicle Systems, relies on RTI Data Distribution Service middleware for synchronized, distributed sensor integration for their unmanned autonomous vehicle in the DARPA Grand Challenge race.
Xuenn Limited, a premier online gaming software solutions provider, has deployed RTI to process betting transactions in its AgileBet sports betting platform.
The South Korean military is upgrading its frigate ship fleet, which includes upgrading complex distributed computing systems that require high-performance real-time data sharing. In conjunction with Samsung Thales, RTI Services is engaged throughout the lifecycle of the FFX-1 project to design, implement and optimize performance of real-time data communications associated with controlling the ship's weapon systems.
Force Technology, market leader in the design of multi-ship simulator systems, created the world's first system to provide a complete environment for training tugboat captains in maneuvering large vessels such as oil and gas tankers into restricted spaces using multiple tugs. They required middleware that would offer real-time data interchange between subsystems without requiring the developers to know about the internals of each subsystem added to the application.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a leader in high-technology systems development ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely operated surveillance aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies. After evaluating both commercial distributed networking alternatives and potential in-house custom code, General Atomics selected RTI for real-time data exchange and processing for the advanced cockpit ground control stations (GCSs) for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) such as the military Predator drones.
The Navy Automated Logistics (AutoLog) cargo handling system is designed to transfer large cargo loads from one Navy ship to another at-sea. Learn more about how RTI, under subcontract to SEICOR, developed and tested the control software and performed the system integration for this complex system.
The US Navy is promoting and pursuing an Open Architecture (OA) that enables interaction and portability between designers, suppliers, and end-users. One instance of OA beng employed to enhance interoperability is with naval ship systems, including components such as frameworks, middleware and operating systems. The goal is to reduce total cost of ownership, easing systems change and upgrades, and reducing compatibility and interoperability problems. RTI middleware was selected as the middleware solution for the Navy Open Architecture. Because of its extensibility, RTI middleware is enabling OA throughout the US Navy. Additionally, our Engineering Services group provided advanced integration, support and consulting.
The US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center built a “smart” crane ammunition transfer system. Transferring munitions is a manpower-intensive activity, so the goal of the system was to significantly reduce manpower required by using robotics to automate loading and unloading palettes. To accomplish this, they required a high-level supervisory control system to coordinate all the various components of the system, such as vision systems, sensors, laser scanners to determine palette orientation, and forklift control. RTI’s Services group built a customized component-based application that provided handling efficiencies and reduced palette acquisition and loading times. This project involved a high number of vendors and systems working closely together, so RTI Services’ system integration capabilities were key to making this project successful.
"We selected RTI because of their proven track record in synchronized, distributed communications and their understanding of the critical design requirements of autonomous vehicles."
Dan Komaromi
Autonomous Vehicle Systems
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