SOAR26:Joint Fires & Effects Training System (JFETS)
Robert Wray, Randy Jones – Principal InvestigatorScott Sorel, Al Wallace – Project Manager
Jonathan Beard – Tech Lead
Geoff Morgan, Steve Furtwangler – Research Engineers
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Project Details
� SoarTech working as a subcontractor to the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)
� Overall Objective• Build an immersive training environment for the Ft. Sill artillery
school to train forward observers
� SoarTech Objective• Create believable and evocative insurgent behaviors for
observation & interaction
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Insurgent Behaviors
� Must work in a team� Geographically distributed in a low-density urban
environment� Must be able to execute pre-planned missions AND adapt
appropriately to dynamically changing circumstances� Agents must fulfill a multitude of roles and engage in
asymmetric warfare• AK47, Anti-Aircraft, IED Detonator, IED Placer, IED Vehicle,
Lookouts, MG, Mortar, RPG, Suicide Bomber, Technical Vehicle
� Should ideally support pedagogic training goals (deemed out scope for 2005/2006)
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Scenario
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Nuggets & Coal
� NUGGETS:• Leveraged existing agent
infrastructure (CIAF, STGS, NGSv2, OTB-SSI, SoarPDL)
• Quickly built a multi-agent system including 13 new agent types, all with new domain-specific behaviors
• JFETS technologies quickly adapted by other projects at Soar Technology
• Got to hang out at the really cool full-surround immersive VR trainer at Ft. Sill!
� COAL:• No cool movies for Soar
Workshop because ICT dealing with export issues
• Limited future funding reduces amount of non-engineering (ie, research) work
• Couldn’t talk Mike VanLent into visiting to make a JFETS presentation himself
