Autonomous Rugged Combat Casualty Care – Intervention (ARC3-I)

In the near future, the Warfighter may face prolonged isolation and sustained denial of support on the battlefield, and may have no access to medical support. To become more resilient to these challenges, the Warfighter will need additional, innovative support to provide Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Intelligent decision-support software, teleoperated trauma care systems, and fully autonomous trauma care robotics are intriguing solutions. In addition to intelligently diagnosing multiple injuries, performing patient monitoring, and producing prioritized TCCC treatment plans, solutions must assist Warfighters without specific medical training so they can perform interventions. To meet this goal, the solution must interface with telemedical assistance and provide direction to robotic platforms, all within a modular, unified architecture. To address these challenges, we propose to design and evaluate the Autonomous Ruggedized Combat Casualty Care – Intervention (ARC3-I), a modular, intelligent framework for autonomous combat casualty care. ARC3-I combines behavior modeling based on trauma treatment algorithms and procedures with a human-in-the-loop, human-machine interface and robotic adapter, to provide autonomous medical knowledge of interventions that can be performed by either Warfighters without specific medical training or robotic platforms.