- Test Bed : UAV Synthetic Task
The CERTT Lab houses a Synthetic
Task Environment (STE) for studying team cognition. The premier task in
this STE is a simulation of Uninhabited Air Vehicle (UAV) Ground Control operations.
In the UAV-STE a three-person team controls the UAV for the purpose of taking reconnaissance photos. The task is based on the actual operations of the Air Force’s Predator UAV.
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The synthetic task environment in made up of four industrial Participant
Consoles and one Experiment
Console.
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Participant
Consoles |
Experimenter
Control Station |
The UAV synthetic
task environment provides a context to measure team cognition. Our long-term
goal is to develop, validate, and modify our measures in order to use them
for real-time assessment of team performance to facilitate opportunistic intervention.
The CERTT Lab has conducted
distributed and real-time interactive demonstrations with other laboratories.
Using DIS (distributed interactive simulation) protocol and the Internet-II,
one such demonstration was between the CERTT Laboratory and the CSTARS simulation
facility (an AWACS simulator) at Brooks Air Force Base and involved a multi-laboratory
scenario involving AWACS, F-16s, and UAVs.
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