3D Tool for Physical Phenomenon Visualization in F-35 Maintainer Training

Aircraft inspection and maintenance is dependent on seamless integration of human and machine components, but the underlying reasons for certain maintenance tasks can be difficult to translate in training terms. Planet LLC, along with its instructional systems design partner American Systems Corporation, proposes to create a tool to tackle physical force and natural phenomenon effects. This Phase I will result in a set of instructional training templates built to interface with existing and commonly used three-dimensional software built to reuse existing CAD data and models. The primary objective will be to add two modifiers for kinematics (the motion of a body or a system of bodies without consideration given to its mass or the forces acting on it) and dynamics (soft-body and rigid-body dynamics, free-form deformations, cloth, fluid dynamics, and other simulations taking into account natural forces such as wind, gravity, and density). The templates will show an instructional systems designer how to add these modifiers to 3D models or simulations, how to export the material out of a standard simulation program, and how to take the resulting platform-independent low-file size objects into web-based or standalone courseware, PowerPoint, electronic performance support systems, or displays within the aircraft system.