CID Combat Vehicle Detection & Identification

Flowing the guidelines of Instructional Systems Design, the AEgis Technologies Group intends to use gaming technologies as a means of addressing the need for hands-on training in multiple scenarios. To the end, research was done by consulting both DoD and industry subject matter experts as well as military trend reports that show the fratricide and combat vehicle recognition is still an issue in current operations. Development of C-ID began be determining what vesicles are most commonly used in combat, both friendly and enemy, providing a training environment to educate the user on those vehicles (the C-ID Training Garage), and then placing them in a realistic environment that will allow them to test their proficiency in positively identifying the vehicle and eliminating the threat if it exists. C-ID includes a library of thirty potential vehicle targets and currently has one level of game play with three more levels in development.

Player are taught the basic identification features of common combat vehicles, both in color and infrared mode and whether those vehicles are friendly or enemy. They learn to locate and identify those vehicles in a simulated, realistic combat environment. We have provided the ability to view the environment and vehicle targets both from the camera view of a UAV as well as ground view from the vehicle convoy. Because the focus of the game is on the vehicle recognition from the UAV view, the ground view is provided as it could be within a true mission, but we have limited selection of targets to the UAV camera view. Realistic distractions such as a human interaction, geotypical cultural features, and explosions as vehicles targets are destroyed are part of the environment of gameplay. As the player progresses through the levels of the game, the environmental conditions as well as location and visibility of the combat vehicles becomes more difficult.