Protected Mobility Tactical Trainer

Protected Mobility - Applied Virtual Simulation

Applied Virtual Simulation built the Protected Mobility Tactical Trainer on Qubic System QS-220 3DOF platforms to train Australian Army crews on protected mobility vehicles.

Customer profile: Applied Virtual Simulation is Australia’s leading defense simulation technology provider. The company focuses on the development of highly detailed simulation-based training systems for a wide range of applications including army school needs. AVS is an expert in the design, delivery, integration and maintenance of innovative simulation-based training systems for individual and collective training. Their aim is to deliver safe, efficient and high-fidelity immersive experiences.

Motion Systems supplied the linear-actuator motion platforms for the Protected Mobility Tactical Trainers fielded for the Australian Army. The Qubic System line was selected for this project and implemented in all training simulators.

The fully equipped cockpits of PMTT are based on QS-220 motion platforms.

Scalable and accessible tool for the crews

The Protected Mobility Tactical Trainer (PMTT) developed by Applied Virtual Simulation (AVS) is one of the latest innovations embraced by the Army and is helping to achieve the aim of being a future-ready force. The PMTT system allows the Australian Army to train its soldiers to operate its fleet of protected mobility vehicles in a variety of tactical conditions and operational environments. The PMTT is a scalable and accessible tool for training soldiers on vehicle craft, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), communications and a wide range of mounted combatant skills. The PMTT capability delivers training to over 1000 soldiers annually and is expanding to additional locations across the Army.

Virtual Mobility Tactical Training

The Protected Mobility Tactical Trainer is capable of conducting full mission scenarios from orders to execution to after-action review with up to five vehicles per system. The PMTT system can simulate a wide range of vehicles and subsystems, in a variety of tactical conditions and operational environments, providing realistic physical simulations of motion and an immersive experience for drivers, vehicle commanders and gunners or convoy simulation training.

Collective training vehicle simulators

The Mobility Tactical Trainer PMTT is designed to deliver collective training and allows rapid iteration of training serials, which can involve complex scenarios in varied terrain and operational conditions. The system provides a comprehensive training capability from the delivery of orders through to execution and after-action review.

Virtual and Immersive

Protected Mobility Tactical Trainer is based on superfast linear actuators motion system, which is also ready to work with VR. Dedicated software uses advanced mathematical formulas to calculate necessary motion compensation and applies data to the headset at runtime. It eliminates platform movements from the VR tracking system causing driving experiences to be more immersive and authentic. This modular plug-and-play platform integrates directly with the VBS simulation software the trainer runs on.

Thanks to low latency time (less than 8ms), the motion platform responds immediately to signal from the VBS3 simulation telemetry. The Motion Cueing, which has been programmed and used as a plug-in for VBS, allows feeling the movements of the vehicle, road effects and engine vibration. Actuator stroke of up to 100 mm faithfully reproduces the rough terrain conditions in which the armored vehicles move and increases the immersion for training soldiers.

Modular platform

Through successive training serials, soldiers can quickly gain skills and experience in a wide range of areas, from vehicle craft, to mounted tactics, navigation and communications. The new tech strives to imitate real-life terrain, but it is not the only tool the army school is deploying to help train soldiers virtually. The system consists of five vehicle platforms, an after-action review station and an admin station, is designed around the training of junior mounted leaders and the development of teams, and can train up to 15 soldiers at a time on the new protected mobility vehicles simulator.