Immersive Parachute Descent Procedure, Malfunction and Decision-Making Training System Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Topic No.: N161-007 Topic Title: Immersive Parachute Descent Procedure, Malfunction and Decision-Making Training System Proposal No.: N161-007-0147 Firm: Creative Technologies Inc. 7080 Hollywood Blvd Suite 1100 Los Angeles, California 90028 Contact: James Korris Phone: (323) 472-6204 Web Site: http://www.cretecinc.com Abstract: This effort will produce a design for a re-configurable Parachute Descent Procedure (PDP) training system (PDP-T) intended to replace virtual reality (VR) systems in the eight USAF Aviation Survival Training Centers operated by the Naval Survival Training Institute. With the goal of delivering a detailed design document for an immersive simulation trainer that allows students to use their own equipment and accommodate a comprehensive range of USN aircraft for both bail-out and ejection seat scenarios, the effort will consider current and upcoming hardware (sensors and displays) and software/middleware development tools and runtime virtual environment engines in order to provide a design that exploits extensive industry investments in virtual reality and mixed reality technology. Additionally, techniques and technology from the Hollywood stunt community will lend a dimension of realism to the student's experience to improve learning and slow skill decay. A novel, cloud-based intelligent tutoring system and instructor interface will enable reliable prediction of student skill acquisition and decay for individualized AAR and follow-up. Benefits: By constraining the design to the greatest extent possible to COTS components and an open-architecture/royalty-free SW design, the system will provide best value of acquisition and future upgrades/improvements. The underlying ITS offers significant benefits as it leverages the latest advantages in cognitive learning theory and machine learning. The ITS can closely track trainee progress and estimate mastery in a data-driven manner. In addition, the ITS can also identify individual areas of improvement, with respect to both cognitive and procedural skills. This allows the ITS to deliver personalized training recommendations and strategies for each individual trainee. These benefits translate into faster training times and deeper learning, which ultimately means reduced costs for the DoD. The proposed hybrid performance evaluation system with the trainer in the loop is first-of-its-kind to integrate with the immersive PDP training system (frontend) as well as the ITS (backend). This approach has two significant benefits: (i) it allows the training system to gather trainee performance assessments while not compromising reconfigurability of the training system, (ii) eliminates the need to have motion tracking sensors and automated algorithms to explicitly track trainee actions and (iii) it ensures that PDP trainers are continuously and closely involved in the training process. Return