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Title: Simulation based performance modeling for a warfighter in the loop minefield detection system
Author (s): Rajagopal, Abhilash
Agarwal, Sanjeev
Sreeram, Ramakrishnan
Department/Lab Affiliations: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Intelligent Systems Center
Keywords: automatic target recognition
images
reconnaissance
target detection
unmanned aerial vehicles
Issue Date: 2005-12
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Citation: Rajagopal, Abhilash; Agarwal, Sanjeev; Sreeram, Ramakrishnan. Simulation based performance modeling for a warfighter in the loop minefield detection system. Winter Simulation Conference: Proceedings of the 37th conference on winter simulation. (December 2005).
Abstract: There has been significant recent interest in airborne reconnaissance for target detection using high resolution airborne images collected from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Even if Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms are able to produce satisfactory results in terms of probability of detection for certain false alarm rate, there is a need for a Warfighter-in-the-Loop (WIL) to reduce false alarms further and verify and validate detections to attain the operational performance requirements. We develop a simulation model to assess effectiveness of the warfighter in decision loop for airborne minefield detection. The war-fighter effectiveness is measured in terms of average waiting-time, number of minefield segments in queue, and the expected false alarms, and missed detection. Various parameters which potentially affect the warfighter performance were identified with the help of prior studies with human operator in laboratory settings. Simulation trials were conducted to evaluate the dependence of these parameters on warfighter performance.
Type: Article - Conference proceedings
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titleSimulation based performance modeling for a warfighter in the loop minefield detection system
contributor.authorRajagopal, Abhilash
contributor.authorAgarwal, Sanjeev
contributor.authorSreeram, Ramakrishnan
contributor.deptlabElectrical and Computer Engineering
contributor.deptlabIntelligent Systems Center
subjectautomatic target recognition
subjectimages
subjectreconnaissance
subjecttarget detection
subjectunmanned aerial vehicles
date.issued2005-12
publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
identifier.citationRajagopal, Abhilash; Agarwal, Sanjeev; Sreeram, Ramakrishnan. Simulation based performance modeling for a warfighter in the loop minefield detection system. Winter Simulation Conference: Proceedings of the 37th conference on winter simulation. (December 2005).
description.abstractThere has been significant recent interest in airborne reconnaissance for target detection using high resolution airborne images collected from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Even if Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms are able to produce satisfactory results in terms of probability of detection for certain false alarm rate, there is a need for a Warfighter-in-the-Loop (WIL) to reduce false alarms further and verify and validate detections to attain the operational performance requirements. We develop a simulation model to assess effectiveness of the warfighter in decision loop for airborne minefield detection. The war-fighter effectiveness is measured in terms of average waiting-time, number of minefield segments in queue, and the expected false alarms, and missed detection. Various parameters which potentially affect the warfighter performance were identified with the help of prior studies with human operator in laboratory settings. Simulation trials were conducted to evaluate the dependence of these parameters on warfighter performance.
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