Timothy C. . Havens William and Gloria Jackson Assoc Professor ECE - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

MICHIGAN TECH RESEARCH FORUM MOBIL ILIT ITY TECHTALKS 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

NAME, e-mail address 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 Heterogeneous Intelligent Sensing Intra-vehicle comm. sensing sensing sensing Comm. with ground station Cloud Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Onboard UAV • Motor control Global Navigation Sensor • GPS map Fusion • Cloud Computing IMU • Local SLAM Comm. with cloud • Local map • Local navigation • Basic sensor processing Machine Intelligence Operations • Telemetry and Suspicious Chemical spill communication activity Damaged infrastructure Injured person