AVOSCET Features

AVOSCET consists of three main features:  an easy to use front-end interface for creating and defining unmanned vehicle missions, a task network simulation core which simulates the activities of the vehicles and their operators, and a reporting utility which provides essential metrics for analyzing performance and evaluating the appropriateness of the defined organizational structure.

The Front-End Interface

AVOSCET provides a user-friendly interface through which an analyst can define specific parameter values envisioned for a particular mission involving autonomous systems.  Some of the available parameters are:

 Vehicle characteristics - how many, what type, and the underlying Level of Autonomy

 Operator characteristics - amount of training they have had, aptitude, innate proficiency, and what environmental stressors they will experience during the mission.

 Mission characteristics - how many waypoints, the specific characteristics between each waypoint (such as terrain, vegetation, and soil), enemy threat level, and population density.

AVOSCET Front-End Interface

Task Network Simulation Core

At the core of AVOSCET is a task network model (built using Micro Saint Sharp) that represents the vehicles and the operators of an unmanned vehicle mission.  This model is generated automatically after the user defines an unmanned vehicle scenario using AVOSCET's interface.  All parameters defined by the user are sent to the task network model in order to appropriately affect vehicle and operator behavior.  The model consists of a series of networks that represent the processes executed by each type of unmanned vehicle while performing a mission.  Each network is parameterized to accommodate a range of equipment characteristics, levels of automation, mission types, environments, and operator factors.

AVOSCET Task Network Simulation Core

Reporting Utility

After running a user's scenario through its task network simulation, AVOSCET offers a suite of standard reports through a built-in reporting utility.  Important metrics such as operator workload, vehicle wait times, percentage of time in autonomous mode, and many others, are presented in tabular and graphical format.  For each of the standard reports, AVOSCET will also provide a summary of the data which will include relevant averages (averages over multiple runs, averages over multiple interventions, etc.), maximums, and minimums for important data metrics. 

AVOSCET Reporting Utility