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The Naval Air Warfare Center
Training Systems Division, in partnership
with SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific,
has developed a tablet-based, augmented reality,
pre-flight checklist trainer for use by student pilots
at HSM wing lab, in an effort sponsored
by the Office of Naval Research.
The product developed in this initial effort
uses AR-enabled identification of external aircraft features
at 11 stations around the air vehicle.
The goal of this effort is to demonstrate
how an AR-enabled technology can be used
to help students master pre-flight checklist content
more quickly, enabling quicker progression
to mastery of learning requirements for students'
Initial Aircraft Familiarization Check.
We are very excited about our partnership with SPAWAR SSC.
The high fidelity scans that they provided us
of the H60 Romeo were critical
in our training aid development
and it saved us a considerable amount of development time.
Capabilities like this one have the potential
to save time, increase efficiency
and maximize the transfer of knowledge to the fleet.
The prototype was designed according
to principles of human factors design and learning science,
incorporating readily interpretable, easy to follow cues
to ensure it presents the information students need
at the right times and locations,
but just as importantly, that students will want to use it.
The system developed utilizes a registered AR system,
which enables superior geographic accuracy
for the depiction of AR cues
and requires minimal reliance on external markers.
These features are critical to ensure that
on an air vehicle the size of an H60,
the cues displayed on the user tablet
are depicted in exactly the right locations
on the air vehicle to help students correctly identify
the components to be inspected,
from the nose cone to the tail loader.
Well after the initial prototype is developed,
we plan to pursue training effectiveness evaluation,
as well as build some content for other populations,
such as air crew maintainers.
We will define this as a transition success
if we can do three things.
If we know that students are using this on their own
to practice, if we know that the FRS is incorporating this
into their syllabus and if we know that the producers
can make enough units to meet initial demands,
we will have done our jobs.
AR tools
like the H60 Romeo Pre-flight Checklist Trainer
have the potential for lasting, profound impacts
on Naval training, but only if the technology
is implemented in the right places and in the right ways,
informed by science, with the ultimate goal
of optimizing the human performance of warfighters.
So the great thing about trainers like this,
with augmented reality or virtual reality,
are that it's a trainer that's available to a student
at the time the student wants to use it
and more importantly, it will show folks
how to do things the right way the first time,
much different than what I had using a paper checklist
when I was in flight school several years back.
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