Design Interactive, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: OSD11-H13

Description

The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) program presents an opportunity to provide Special Operators with unique capabilities to achieve increased situational awareness, lethality, and human performance. In current and future iterations of the TALOS system, a base layer system with integrated physiological monitoring equipment provides insight into Operator health and performance status, along with inputs to guide exoskeleton movement. While the physiological sensors incorporated into the TALOS base layer provide meaningful vital sign data to individual Operators, team leaders and commanders, raw data streams can only provide so much insight into the state and readiness of an Operator. Data from existing TALOS base layer sensors, when combined with individualized, contextual, dynamic, and validated algorithms, can provide significant information on Operator state and readiness information that can predict Operator performance, inform decision making, adapt suit functions to Operator needs, and ultimately improve survivability. In the current effort, Design Interactive will advance the development of the TALOS base layer system and visual augmentation system (VAS) by: integrating our stress algorithms into the TALOS system; developing approaches to present visual information to the Operator; and support testing of integrated components in relevant environments.