University of Southern California

Intelligent Forces (IFOR)

The Intelligent Forces (IFOR) project develops artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for use in the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS) project. In the JFETS simulation's urban environment, the trainee makes requests to the instructor for air support and artillery fire against insurgents. In response, the instructor submits the trainee's request to the underlying simulation system. The IFOR project increases the overall immersiveness of the system by introducing intelligent, adaptive behaviors for the insurgent forces and realistic, reactive behaviors for the civilian entities that are controlled entirely through the use of external artificial intelligence technologies. This increases the training's variability while decreasing the work for the human instructors. In addition, IFOR is creating and updating characters in the existing military battle simulation system, One Semi-Automated Forces Testbed, who better reflect the types of people, behaviors and weapons soldiers might encounter in an urban setting.

This project differs from others in the following ways:

  • This project differs from other projects in that its focus is on creating adaptable, intelligent entities (rather than computer-controlled entities performing the same static, scripted sequences time after time).

Tags: artificial, behavior, intelligence, simulation

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Goals

  • Improve the JFETS CAS training system's insurgent and civilian behaviors.
  • Create intelligent entities that can react to a trainee's actions in realistic ways.
  • Enable an instructor to specify goals and plan constraints for the IFOR forces.
  • Ability to quickly author/generate plans to accomplish a specified goals.