Automated Ruggedized Combat Casualty Care - Intervention (ARC3-I)

In the near future, the Warfighter will likely face prolonged isolation, sustained denial of support on the battlefield, and lack of access to medical support. To improve resiliency to these challenges, the Warfighter requires additional, innovative support to provide trauma care. Intelligent decision-support software, teleoperated trauma care systems, and semi-autonomous robotics are intriguing solutions, but additional developments are required to support, integrate and operationalize these technologies. To address these challenges, under our Phase I effort we prototyped and demonstrated Autonomous Ruggedized Combat Casualty Care – Intervention (ARC3-I), an agent-based algorithm that uses hierarchical representations of interventions to flexibly direct and assist human and robotic caregivers. ARC3-I includes an Intervention Procedure Manager capability that uses an agent-based algorithm to manage interventions; a multimodal, adaptive, Just-in-Time Guidance capability that provides rapid instructional content to enable a human caregiver to perform Procedure Manager-guided interventions at or above his or her skill level; a Guided Telemedical Interface that provides structured, low bandwidth interaction between remote experts and human and/or robotic resources at the point of injury by harnessing the JITG and Procedure Manager; and a Robotic Interface to support robotic platforms to perform actions requested by the Procedure Manager.