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2016

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University of Central Florida

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Live Versus Virtual: Cost Benefit Analysis For Applying Simulation Towards Army Aviator Flight Minimums, Dylan Morelle Jan 2016

Live Versus Virtual: Cost Benefit Analysis For Applying Simulation Towards Army Aviator Flight Minimums, Dylan Morelle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Longbow Crew Trainer (LCT) is a cost effective, safe alternative to live training in the AH-64D/E Apache helicopter. Current Army doctrine and regulations have provisions for the limited use of simulator in lieu of aircraft hours toward semiannual minimum flight hour requirements. With the defense budget in decline, the Army must find innovative, cost effective methods to conduct realistic, relevant training to sustain proficiency in their warfighting capabilities. The LCT fully replicates the cockpit environment through training scenarios for requisite crew tasks and missions in a realistic, modular, and transportable solution. An attack helicopter crew can safely train in …


The Impact Of Automation Reliability And Fatigue On Reliance, Ryan Wohleber Jan 2016

The Impact Of Automation Reliability And Fatigue On Reliance, Ryan Wohleber

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research is to inform the design of dynamic interfaces to optimize unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator reliance on automation. A broad goal of the U.S. military is to improve the ratio of UAV operators to UAVs controlled. Accomplishing this goal requires the use of automation; however, the benefits of automation are jeopardized without appropriate operator reliance. To improve reliance on automation, this effort sought to accomplish several objectives organized into phases. The first phase aimed to validate metrics that could be used to gauge operator fatigue online, to understand how the reliability of automated systems influences …