week three of the phase two MTs . So we
began the portion in which the soldiers
perform situational training exercises .
The intent of the stick segment is to
perform missions and collect data on
all relevant aspects of the monte
operations at a platoon level . The
soldiers are going to engage live
opponents in the opt for to really
challenge and fight and take objectives .
The main goal is to look at what we
call manned , unmanned teaming . How
are the soldiers deploying the robotic
assets ? If they push a robot forward
of the manned vehicle and it gets
destroyed , we've lost some money ,
some hardware . If their vehicle gets
destroyed we've lost soldier lives
which we never want to do . So our main
goal is to see how they use the robotic
assets and to train them to use them .
So they work as a team , the robots and
the humans . Together .
They're gonna get a mission each day .
They're gonna do their mission planning
tasks . They're gonna get into their
systems and they're gonna say take that
hill , pull recon on this route ,
observe this objective , defend this
piece of terrain . We're not scripting
what they're supposed to do . Soldiers
are gonna do their mission planning and
there's going to be an innovative
captain or sergeant major that's gonna
say why don't we do this ? We're gonna
find out what works and what doesn't
work and really ultimately what this
starts to form is what's the doctrine
that's gonna really underpin all of our
robotic systems moving forward .
The Mum Tea company formations utilized
six MET DS and 12 are CVS during sticks .
split into three platoon variants .
Each variant is made up of two sections
with one met de serving as controller
for to our CVS . The platoon variants
employ the three variants of our CVS
surrogate , medium and light ranging in
size , function and capabilities . The
soldiers applied knowledge of the monte
variants gained during the training
weeks . Centering on offensive
defensive reconnaissance and security
tasks . We were in the rear . So we're
using the R . C . V . S out in front
since we're on man . So there was less
probability of casualties . So I
thought that worked well . We had to
put a lot of thought process and how
we're gonna implement them in new
formations and stuff like that having
five vehicles instead of just our
normal four . But I think it worked out
well and we crossed the objective and
killed the target each day . Data
collection personnel from the Research
and Analysis center , Army Research
laboratory def com data and analysis
center and Army test and Evaluation
Command actively monitored all elements
of soldier activities including vehicle
movement , communications and the
impact of the monte platforms on
fulfillment of mission objectives .
We're collecting various types of data .
Some of it is what we call biometric ,
we would put a chest harness on them
that's measuring their heart rate . We
put what we call a galvanic skin sensor
on them that helps measure stress and
then we're giving them question
regarding motion sickness , cognitive
loading . Is it too much for them or
can they successfully accomplished
their mission because of the extra
computing or the autonomy that we've
put into the system to aid them kind of
acting as the third crew member .
Now that we're back , we're actually
being asked about different
technologies we were using how we felt
about those but needed to be changed .
So now I'm just giving my honest
opinion and just going from there
hopefully it'll help them . We have a
certain way that we think it should
work . But these are the users , these
are the guys that are gonna be
deploying them . And by running these
experiments we get their invaluable
feedback on how the subject matter
experts or the soldiers would use these
and how we can make changes to make
them even better for them . So we're
working as a team , the engineers and
soldiers together to help feel the
better platform .