Can Under Way Training Be Reduced? The Use of Simulation for Training in the U.S. Navy Surface Force

Yardley, Roland J.; Thie, Harry J.; Schank, John F.; Galegher, Jolene; Riposo, Jessie

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“…Coordinated exercises are complex and costly, limiting their use. To the extent that simulations and other intelligent technologies can improve proficiency at much lower cost, such solutions should be pursued (Yardley, Thie, Schank, Galegher & Ripose, 2003). Synthetic Teammates for Realtime Anywhere Training and Assessment (STRATA) (Bell, Johnston, Freeman & Rody, 2004;Chapman, Ryder, Bell, Wischesen & Benton, 2004) is a simulation-based training system which enables single individuals in deployed settings to receive instructorless training in teamwork and cross-platform coordination skills in realistic, mission-oriented scenarios.…”

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Full-Cycle Adaptive Instructorless Training

Chapman

Ryder

Szczepkowski

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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For simulators to provide effective mission training, there must be capabilities for scenario selection, briefing, debriefing, and performance evaluation; typically provided by instructors. This paper describes an approach for automated scenario selection, guided brief and AAR, and automated performance measurement. Underlying these intelligent functions is a tight coupling of training objectives, performance measures, and scenario events derived through extensive cognitive task analysis. Training objectives drive scenario selection and instantiation with events that provide opportunities to demonstrate related competencies; automated performance measures then monitor and evaluate user actions in response to these events; and are in turn stored and aggregated for use in a guided after-action review (AAR). A cognitive agent conducts the AAR in much the same way as a real instructor would, tailoring it to the user's performance, selecting the most important performance measures to discuss, highlighting aspects of importance to the mission, and summarizing the user's performance. Since each performance measure is related to a training objective, the user's training profile can be updated for each training objective after the scenario, and subsequent scenarios can be selected to focus on training objectives that have not been achieved, beginning the cycle anew.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Full-Cycle Adaptive Instructorless Training

Chapman

Ryder

Szczepkowski

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Modeling the Effectiveness of Underwater Sonar

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Akin

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss an object-oriented simulation framework/model for the US Navy that simulates the behavior of ships in a combat environment. This model provides a framework which helps to improve threat recognition, undersea tactical awareness, countermeasure emissions, and counter-weapon fire control to enable surface ships to survive a salvo of torpedo attacks. A Navy ship gathers information from all the sensors it carries and then fuses the information to make a judgment. An Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) approach was adopted for designing and implementing our framework. With OOP, the framework can be easily modified and tested with sophisticated and classified algorithms that may be based on established physics principles. The model was developed by using multiple modeling approaches including hybrid, discrete and continuous systems and capturing complex phenomena. The model can be used to simulate different events in a combat environment.

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Can Under Way Training Be Reduced? The Use of Simulation for Training in the U.S. Navy Surface Force

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Full-Cycle Adaptive Instructorless Training

Full-Cycle Adaptive Instructorless Training

Modeling the Effectiveness of Underwater Sonar

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