Haptic-Based Training for Tank Gunnery Using Decoupled Motion Control

For training human motor skills, haptic guidance has proven more effective than traditional visual-feedback-only approaches. However, novices might become dependent on the feedback force provided during training and become unable to adapt to real operating environments. To overcome haptic-based training´s limitations, a proposed approach uses decoupled motion control, which divides a motion into individual coordinate axis movements controlled by multiple operators. Using a networked haptic interaction system, the trainee cooperates with an expert to complete a training task. Unlike previous approaches, the force or torque exerted by the trainee´s device doesn´t directly correct the trainee´s hand action. Instead, the trainee regulates his or her manipulation to cooperate with the expert by feeling motion feedback from the expert. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/qYBsR6AOjzQ is a video that shows a test subject operating a training simulator for tank gunnery that uses haptics.