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Adaptive Distributed Environment for Procedure Training

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNJ05JC09C
Agency Tracking Number: 040607
Amount: $69,993.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: X7.03
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-01-18
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2005-07-25
Small Business Information
951 Mariner's Island Blvd. Suite 360
San Mateo, CA 94404-1560
United States
DUNS: 608176715
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Eric Domeshek
 Principal Investigator
 (781) 643-1444
 domeshek@stottlerhenke.com
Business Contact
 Carolyn Maxwell
Title: Business Official
Phone: (650) 931-2726
Email: maxwell@stottlerhenke.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

With its constantly evolving portfolio of highly technical systems requiring human construction maintenance and operation, NASA has an extreme form of a common yet challenging training problem: how to ensure that personnel are qualified on the (often changing) procedures required to work on or with these systems. Simulation-based training that enables learning while doing is a proven approach, but dependence on hardware-based simulators and the requirement for human instructors to develop and supervise training scenarios raise costs and limit flexibility in delivering training and retraining. We propose to build a distributable intelligent tutoring system (ITS) exploiting a unified representation of human and robotic mission activities that can be used to (1) trace student activity to assess, prompt, and correct their actions, (2) simulate robotic activity, (3) control training scenario generation/selection, (4) cover both general and specific cases, (5) allow for varying degrees of detail in human and robotic activity, (6) support extended scenarios involving multiple procedures, and (7) track detailed re-training requirements resulting from changes in procedures. The innovative merger of general procedure descriptions with specific scenario scripts will facilitate more efficient authoring of consistent broad-coverage automated simulation-based training while retaining the ability to author specific scenarios when needed.

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