Warfighter as a System Digital Twin Research Phase II: Dynamic Loading Conditions PMHS Validation Da
Abstract
The warfighter is a complex, soft engineering system subjected to unusual and extreme loads that lead to reduced performance and inj,ury. Digital Engineering is becoming widely used in military systems for design, planning, and predictive maintenance. These benefit,s are not realized for the warfighter because there is no analogous human digital twin to inform the design and use of equipment, ve,hicles, preventative medicine, and battlefield medical care. The proposed research in this white paper will focus on the development, and application of Digital Engineering and Digital Twin technologies as applied to warfighter protection and the digital engineerin,g and virtual certification of future protective military equipment.Prognostication and Health Maintenance with a Human Digital Twin,: A dynamic virtual ?skin-in? model of the warfighter (male and female) body based on biofidelic properties of tissues and organs an,d response to injury. This project will focus on military hazards of accelerative, blunt, and blast forces. Creating a Digital Engin,eering strategy using biofidelic models will improve risk assessment, injury and incapacitation prediction; and enable agile design,testing and criterion setting for personal protective equipment, platforms, and casualty flow modeling; warfighter integration with,the vehicle digital twin, medical response planning, and technological feedback mechanism for human-machine interface. The proposed,research will focus on the second of these four phases:1.Phase I- Warfighter Digital Engineering Standards and Best Practices: - Pas,t/Ongoing Work.2.Phase II- MIL-S-85510 Dynamic Loading Conditions PMHS Validation Datasets and Digital Engineering Authoritative Sou,rce of Truth Repository for the I-PREDICT and future Digital Warfighter Human Finite Element Models. ? Current Proposal Research Top,ic: During the work conducted in Phase I, the NIAR research team has identified two significant limitations for current Human FEA Mo,dels (I-PREDICT and GHBMC) that need to be addressed to support the Digital Twin Warfighter Research Program objectives: 2.1.PMHS Ve,rification and Validation Full Scale Testing Datasets2.2.AoST Human Body Model Repository3.Phase III ? Digital-Physical Twin Standar,ds and Infrastructure- Future Work: the work in this Phase will be focused on defining standards for the instrumentation, data excha,nge, data processing, data storage, and computing infrastructure required to link the Digital Twin with the Physical Twin. WSU-NIAR ,s Advanced Virtual Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Virtual Reality laboratories will be used to set up a Pilot Program to demonstrat,e the information technology infrastructure, advanced methods, and collaborative trusted systems that enforce intellectual property,protection, cybersecurity, and security classification.4.Phase IV- Warfighter Digital Twin Applications and Future Workforce Trainin,g Future Work: Define procedures and best practices for real-world Warfighter Digital Twin applications (Virtual Military Equipment,, Environment, and Threads). Develop tools and methods to define level 2 (Basic DT), level 3 (Adaptive DT), and level 4 (Intelligent,DT.) Warfighter Digital Twin real-world applications. ?Approved for Public Release?
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 06, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142312016
Entities
People
- Gerardo Olivares
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Wichita State University