Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Improving Warfighter Information Intake under Stress: Augmented Cognition - Phases 2, 3, and 4

摘要

This report is a comprehensive summary of a multi-year effort by the Honeywell team on the Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress/AugCog program jointly sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army. The team, which spanned industry, government, and academia, studied the measurable cognitive states of the dismounted Soldier. The first seven months of Honeywell's involvement consisted of studies that developed neurophysiological and physiological measures of cognitive states, particularly attention. The next two years of the program focused on the challenges of assessing the cognitive state of a mobile participant and the development of mitigation strategies to improve the overall throughput of the joint human-machine system. The final year's effort proved the feasibility of the AugCog technology for the dismounted Soldier by testing the system in a military Mobile Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) environment with a platoon of Soldiers. The Honeywell team believes it was the first ever to demonstrate robust real-time cognitive state classification in the harsh operational MOUT environment. The classification accuracies obtained in the final study match those of the more pristine laboratory environment despite the motion, noise, and physical challenges posed by collecting physiological data in the field during real operations.