Modernizing Maintenance Operations and Training

The Navy is currently experiencing reduced readiness for maintenance operations. Maintenance technicians are not always resourced with all necessary and up-to-date reference documents and have limited access to such documents. AR solutions have currently been applied to training in both military and commercial domains to help bridge the gap. However the current solutions don’t serve as an organic pipeline of training content, don’t store audio/visual remote assistance for future reference, and are limited to a centralized website only. An opportunity exists to develop an AR training solution that captures remote collaboration discourse and permits rapid, human-in-the-loop assembly of expertise sensitive training modules that can be accessed in real time, at the point of need. Design Interactive Inc. proposes the development of Store, Categorize, Analyze, and Transfer Training for Enterprise Readiness (SCATTER), an augmented reality system that extracts potential training content captured from the discourse between a master maintainer and a trainee during a remote-assisted scenario. SCATTER will couple the categorized and analyzed content with geographical positioning (e.g., position relative to equipment) and supportive virtual content overlays (e.g., schematics, animations, etc.) in order to support maintainers of all proficiency levels in increasing their effectiveness and efficiency.