FINAL REMINDER: Life Members Affinity Group Luncheon
Come join the Life Members Affinity Group for Lunch!
Time for another of our quarterly Life Members Affinity Group Get Together Luncheons.
With all of the interest these days in drones, and the problems that have been experienced with them at several major airports worldwide, our topic for this meeting is to hear about some of the recent work going on within the Denver University Unmanned Systems Research Institute developing techniques for detection, tracking, and identification of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Please note that this meeting will be held at in Room 201 of the Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science on the DU campus, 2155 E Wesley Ave, Denver. The building will be open for access beginning at 11:00 am. Street parking is available on Wesley Ave. and Iliff Ave., and pay parking is available behind the building, across the street directly north of the building, and a lot northeast of the building off Illif Ave.
Lunch will be provided as an assortment of box lunches from Panera. Please make your choice of ham, turkey, chicken salad, tuna salad, or vegetarian with your registration. Bottled water will also be provided.
Also, one of our Life Members, Phil Gold, will be coaching his team of Thomas Jefferson high school robotic students at the First FRC Regional Robotics competition at the Ritchie Center Magness Arena, only about 3 blocks North (at Jewell/Buchtel & Gaylord) of our meeting.
Phil has extended an invitation to all of our members (including their grandsons & grandaughters etc.) to drop in at the FRC USFirst competition before & or after our meeting. Admission is free and open to the public. Besides watching the competition one can wander among the "pits", talking to these high school students, and watching the teams repair their robots. More information on the competition can be found at http://coloradofirst.org/COFIRST/colorado-regional-first-robotics-competition/ and https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/game-and-season . Qualification matches are 9 to noon and finals are 1 to 4 pm.
For those with grandkids, many scholarships are available to students in this truly international program. Besides for high school students, there are programs open to middle and elementary school students as well, with championship contests in Houston & Detroit.
There is a light rail stop just East of the Magness Arena.
We will also be joined in the meeting by T. Scott Atkinson, who is the Region 5 Life Member Coordinator, and Member and Activity Coordinator for the IEEE Life Member Committee.
Date and Time
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- Date: 23 Mar 2019
- Time: 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- University of Denver
- 2155 E Wesley Ave
- Denver, Colorado
- United States 80208
- Building: Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science University of Denver
- Room Number: ECS 201
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Please register if you can by noon on March 22 so that lunch can be ordered. If you encounter registration difficulties, please send an email to lmag@ieee-denver.org.
- Starts 18 February 2019 01:18 PM
- Ends 22 March 2019 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
- Menu: Turkey Sandwich, Heritage Ham and Swiss, Napa Almond Chicken Salad Sandwich, Mediterranean Veggie, Tuna Salad
Speakers
Erik Moore
Techniques for Detection, Tracking, and Identification of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (aka, Drones)
Recent small-scale Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) use has drastically increased due to technology development, reduced manufacturing costs, and emerging applications such as surveillance and delivery. However, mission safety relies on robust, on-board Sense And Avoid (SAA) systems to prevent potential collisions with obstacles including other aircraft. The sensor performance of an SAA system is integral to successful collision avoidance. Commercial UASs are difficult radar targets because they are considered low, slow, and small. Thus, novel radar techniques such as Cognitive Radar (adaptive waveform) and Micro-Doppler target identification are becoming popular research topics due to their potential for UAS applications. This talk covers research performed within the Denver University Unmanned Systems Research Institute developing a low-cost S-Band and X-Band radar testbed for evaluation of novel UAS radar detection, tracking, and identification techniques.
Biography:
Erik Moore is currently a Research Scientist at Numerica Corporation in Fort Collins, CO working on counter sUAS radar sensors. Mr. Moore graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2016. He received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Denver in 2019. Mr. Moore held multiple internships at Keysight Technologies as a Hardware R&D Engineer within the Precision Network Analyzer group. While in graduate school, Mr. Moore completed a thesis developing a software-defined radar testbed for small UAV detection, tracking, and identification for sense and avoid applications.
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Address:Colorado, United States
Agenda
12:00 Lunch and Getting Acquainted
12:30 Erik Moore