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=== Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) ===

[[File:WIAMan Warrior Injury Assessment Manikn.jpg|thumb|U.S. Army Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan)]]
WIAMan is a blast test dummy designed to assess potential skeletal injuries of soldiers exposed to under-body blast (UBB). Designed jointly by the U.S. Army and [[Diversified Technical Systems]] (DTS), the project includes an anthropomorphic test device and in-dummy data acquisition and sensor solution.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/05/31/army-creates-crash-test-dummy-to-improve-vehicle-safety-for-soldiers/|title=Army creates crash test dummy to improve vehicle safety for soldiers|last=Kalinyak|first=Rachael|date=2017-08-07|work=Army Times|access-date=2018-08-28|language=en-US}}</ref> Since the project started in February 2015, two generations of WIAMan prototypes have undergone a series of lab tests and blast events in the field.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aerodefensetech.com/component/content/article/adt/features/articles/27963|title=WIAMan – Tech Briefs :: Aerospace & Defense Technology|last=Group|first=Techbriefs Media|website=www.aerodefensetech.com|date=December 2017 |access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref>

With the prototype's delivery in 2018, WIAMan evaluates the effects of under-body blasts involving vehicles, and assess the risk to soldiers in ground vehicle systems. The goal of the WIAMan project is to acquire data that will improve the design of military vehicles and [[personal protective equipment]]. WIAMan and the platform created to simulate an IED explosion are undergoing continued testing.<ref name=":3" />

Test dummies of the past were intended for the auto industry and lacked the same response a human would have to explosions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?article=2965|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702233319/https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?article=2965|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 2, 2018|title=WIAMan program celebrates milestone|website=www.arl.army.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> A challenge for the Army has been to develop a crash test dummy that moves enough like a human body to get an accurate result. The Army is working to make the mannequin "biofidelic," meaning it can match human movement. At 5-feet-11-inches tall and 185 lbs., WIAMan is based on the size and movement of an average soldier.<ref name=":3" />

[[U.S. Army Research Laboratory]] and its partners at [[Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory|Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab]] completed biofidelity testing in 2017. The purpose of the testing was to develop a dummy capable of predicting specific injury risk to occupants in a vehicle during live-fire tests, based on human response data.<ref name=":3" />

The manikin supports up to 156 channels of data acquisition, measuring different variables a soldier may experience in a vehicle blast. WIAMan includes self-contained internal power and the world's smallest data acquisition system called [https://www.dtsweb.com/slice6-daq/ SLICE6], based on SLICE NANO architecture, eliminating the huge mass of sensor cables normally exiting dummies. The data measured within WIAMan includes forces, moments, accelerations and angular velocity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dtsweb.com/wiaman-blast-manikin/|title=Data Acquisition Systems & Sensors for Product Testing – Diversified Technical Systems, Inc.|website=dtsweb.com|date=5 February 2018 |access-date=2018-08-28}}</ref> The DEVCOM Analysis Center (DAC) processes WIAMan data via a software analysis tool called the Analysis of Manikin Data, or AMANDA. On Feb. 2, 2022, AMANDA was accredited by the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command for use in live fire test and evaluation.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://soldiersystems.net/2022/05/17/army-injury-assessment-tool-receives-stamp-of-accreditation/ | title=Army Injury Assessment Tool Receives Stamp of Accreditation - Soldier Systems Daily | date=17 May 2022 }}</ref>