Virtual Environment Amphibious Assault Vehicle Turret Trainer (AAV -TT)

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Virtual Environment Amphibious Assault Vehicle
Turret Trainer (AAV -TT)

• Dr Denise Nicholson, CMSP
• Institute of Simulation and Training
• University of Central Florida

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Success Story Amphibious Assault Vehicle
Turret Trainer (AAV-TT)

• Initiated by Marines from the 3rd Assault
  Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division
• Collaborative program established between
  PMTRASYS, COL Augustin, and CDR Schmorrow, Office
  of Naval Research leveraging work by ONR, DARPA,
  and the commercial gaming industry
• Urgent USMC need to prepare Marines for Iraq
  despite thelack of a live range where
  thistraining can be delivered

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Component MST Technologies for Reuse
Virtual Environment
Instructor/Operator Stations
Displays
HBR/Intelligent Forces
Reality Augmented/
Partial Immersive Reality Immersive
Virtual Reality Current
---------------------------Near- Term
------------------------------ Far-Term
Haptics
Avatars
3D-Sound
Tracking
Weapons Handling
Multimodal
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Success Story Amphibious Assault Vehicle
Turret Trainer (AAV-TT)

• The ONR led development team included BMH (small
  business), Lockheed Martin, NAVAIR Orlando, and
  VRSonic (small business)
• In less than eighteen months,
• the AAV Turret Trainer was developed, tested,
  and fielded
• USMC is procuring 16 trainers from T.J.
  Incorporated (8A firm)

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Success Story Amphibious Assault Vehicle
Turret Trainer (AAV-TT)

• The AAV-TT is a stand-alone trainer that uses a
  surplus AAV Turret and Indoor Simulated
  Marksmanship Trainer (ISMT) weapons (M-2 Mk-19)
  to provide individual, crew, and section gunnery
  training
• System consists of instructor/operator station,
  driver station, AAV turret, and intercom system
• The Trainer uses commercial Windows and Linux
  PCs, government owned software and terrain
  databases, and a commercial game engine (Gamebryo)

AAV Turret Trainer prototype installed and
training at Camp Lejeune, NC
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ST Reuse to support the Warfighter
AAV-Turret Trainer
AAV - In harms way
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Back-up Slides
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Trainer Components Layout
Projector Screen
Screen-turret distance depends on selection of
M36E lens add-on
Video Projector
Air Station
Turret Power Control Unit
Driver Station
Turret Stand
Steering Yoke
M36E
Foot Pedals
Monitor Display
Turret
Mouse
Keyboard
Instructor Station
Computer Rack
Instructor, Driver, and Computer placement may be
varied
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Simulator Features
360 Traverse

• 360 degree simulated electric traverse
• Manual traverse within screen
• Both electric and butterfly triggers active
• Realistic Mk19 and M2 ballistics
• Most lights and switches active
• Inhibit zones active
• Multiple AAVs can be networked
• 3D Sound

Multiple AAVs
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Driver Station
Designed to support Gunner-Driver coordination
Control View Direction
Throttle and brake
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Instructor Station
3D View
ScenarioSelection
ShotStatistics
Overhead View
Supportsmultiplenetworkedtrainers
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JSAF for Scenario Authoring
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Terrain
Pendleton
McKenna
Lejeune
Tikrit