Dominique Stump
A Raytheon subsidiary has begun development work on a three-dimensional interface designed to help military personnel gain situational awareness while they are inside a windowless armored ground vehicle.
Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing the “human-machine” interface as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Ground X-Vehicle Technologies initiative, the company said Monday.
The platform will employ lidar data and high-definition videos to generate a 3-D model of a vehicle’s surroundings as well as utilize additional sensors designed to locate to locate incoming hostile fire and friendly forces, Raytheon added.
David Diller, GXV-T program manager at Raytheon BBN, said the company aims to create a virtual experience to give soldiers a view of the environment outside their vehicles.
DARPA funds the development of mobility, agility, crew augmentation and signature management technologies for armored vehicles through the GXV-T program.
