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The battlefield is a place of violence ruled by uncertainty. Timely knowledge of what’s happening around a soldier can mean the difference between life and death. The goals of an enhanced mobile infantry are becoming a reality through innovative progress by the U.S. Army’s 21st Century Land Warrior (LW) program. However, the current system does not provide a “head up” display capability like that provided by today’s avionics. When the soldier employs the weapon, he should see objects easily distinguishable as friendly or not, as well as enemy locations. The Eyekon project is an intelligent agent-based decision support system hosted on the soldier’s wearable computer. Eyekon will use the LW network to provide a perspective view in the weapon sight. This will naturally draw the warrior to the most desirable target. There are many performance and human factors issues to address before the concept can be used in lethal situations.
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Hicks, J., Flanagan, R., Petrov, P., Stoyen, A. (2003). Taking Intelligent Agents to the Battlefield. In: Hinchey, M.G., Rash, J.L., Truszkowski, W.F., Rouff, C., Gordon-Spears, D. (eds) Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems. FAABS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45133-4_18
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