Adaptive Synthetic Forces: Situation Awareness

Abstract

One of the limitations of the current generation of synthetic forces is their lack of situation awareness and understanding (Pew and Mavor, 1998). Situation awareness is critical for making intelligent decisions-without it there is no context for adapting one's behavior to accommodate the current and future states of the world (Klein, 2000; Waag and Bell, 1997). Endsley (1988, 2000) points out that situation awareness has three components: perception, comprehension, and prediction. Building on these ideas, we developed techniques for improving the situation awareness in synthetic helicopter pilots for the ModSAF military simulation by giving them more human-like perception and attention, the ability to recognize and understand battle formations and echelons, and the ability to make short-term predictions about the movements of vehicles through complex terrain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 09, 2001
Accession Number
ADA395061

Entities

People

  • Randall W. Hill Jr.

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Combat Simulations
  • Comprehension
  • Computers
  • Helicopters
  • Information Science
  • Military Applications
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Vehicles
  • Video Games

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design