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Timothy C. . Havens

William and Gloria Jackson Assoc Professor ECE / CS / ICC Center for Data Sciences thavens@mtu.edu

Areas of research/expertise

Sensor and Information Fusion

• Processing, detection, and classification using multi-modal sensors
• Algorithm development for feature- and decision-level fusion

Signal Processing

• Spatiotemporal array processing of wideband radar
• Simultaneous transmit / receive radar arrays

UAV Sensing

• Multi-modal localization
• Multistatic radar processing

MICHIGAN TECH RESEARCH FORUM

TECHTALKS

MOBIL ILIT ITY

Multi-Modal Explosive Hazard Detection (U.S. Army)

• Combining multi-band ground penetrating radar, thermal-

and visible-spectrum cameras, and LIDAR

• Developing detection and classification algorithms for high

probability of detection and low false-alarm rate NAME, e-mail address

MOBIL ILIT ITY

Multistatic Array Processing From UAVs (U.S. Army, Akela, Inc.)

• High accuracy sensor-fused localization of UAV radar arrays
• Multistatic radar processing of cooperative ground vehicle

and UAV arrays NAME, e-mail address

MOBIL ILIT ITY

NAME, e-mail address

MOBIL ILIT ITY

sensing sensing

• Comm. with cloud
• Comm. with ground station

Intra-vehicle comm.

sensing

Navigation Global map Cloud Computing

Cloud Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Onboard UAV

• Motor control
• GPS
• IMU
• Local SLAM
• Local map
• Local navigation
• Basic sensor processing
• Telemetry and

communication

Sensor Fusion

Machine Intelligence Operations

Chemical spill Injured person Suspicious activity Damaged infrastructure

Heterogeneous Intelligent Sensing