Urban Combat: The Ultimate Extreme Environment

Urban Combat: The Ultimate Extreme Environment

Immersive Simulation to Train Urban Infantry Combat

The key component in developing an effective virtual infantry training simulator is the user interface. Our goal is to develop interfaces that give users close to the same ability to move and coordinate actions as they have in the real world. We have developed two interfaces. Gaiter is a highly realistic body-driven interface in which the user walks in place to walk through the virtual world. W...

Synthetic Adversaries for Urban Combat Training

82 AI MAGAZINE ■ This article describes requirements for synthetic adversaries for urban combat training and a prototype application, MOUTBots. MOUTBots use a commercial computer game to define, implement, and test basic behavior representation requirements and the Soar architecture as the engine for knowledge representation and execution. The article describes how these components aided the de...

Topophilia and Quality of Life: Defining the Ultimate Restorative Environment

Background: The blood-brain tumor barrier (BTB) impedes the delivery of therapeutic agents to brain tumors. While adequate delivery of drugs occurs in systemic tumors, the BTB limits delivery of anti-tumor agents into brain metastases. Results: In this study, we examined the function and regulation of calcium-activated potassium (KCa) channels in a rat metastatic brain tumor model. We showed th...

Investigating Transfer Learning in the Urban Combat Testbed

We have developed a complex agent capable of transferring learned declarative knowledge between tasks in order to improve performance in a rich domain developed to test transfer performance (the Urban Combat Testbed). We present and discuss our experiments and results which demonstrate successful transfer learning. To better understand the underlying sources of transfer in this domain, we empir...