IEEE Galveston Bay Section

Technical Webinar organized by AESSpacecraft navigation outside of geosynchronous orbit (GEO) presents an ongoing challenge. Current navigational techniques rely on Earth-based tracking, particularly through NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). Navigation via the DSN is both fundamentally limited in terms of accuracy, as well as practically limited in terms of availability. Navigation via naturally occurring signals of opportunity, such as those produced by pulsars, quasars, and gamma-ray bursts, is proposed as an alternative navigation technique that could augment or eventually replace navigation via the DSN. This technique involves making range measurements based on the time-difference of arrival (TDOA) of a signal at the user and another location, usually either another cooperating user or a fixed reference point. Estimating the value of the TDOA is challenging, particularly because the signals in question are usually extremely weak. In this talk we describe algorithms for generating a 6 degree of freedom of freedom position, navigation and timing solution in deep space by measuring the time and angle of arrival of x-rays from pulsars. We also demonstrate their performance by post-processing data collected by x-ray detectors on the Suzaku and Chandra missions.Co-sponsored by: IEEE AESSSpeaker(s): DEMOZ, Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282348

Technical Webinar organized by AESAutonomous driving is seen as one of the pivotal technologies that considerably will shape our society and will influence future transportation modes and quality of life, altering the face of mobility as we experience it by today. Many benefits are expected ranging from reduced accidents, optimized traffic, improved comfort, social inclusion, lower emissions, and better road utilization due to efficient integration of private and public transport. Autonomous driving is a highly complex sensing and control problem. State-of-the-art vehicles include many different compositions of sensors including radar, cameras, and lidar. Each sensor provides specific information about the environment at varying levels and has an inherent uncertainty and accuracy measure. Sensors are the key to the perception of the outside world in an autonomous driving system and whose cooperation performance directly determines the safety of such vehicles. The ability of one isolated sensor to provide accurate reliable data of its environment is extremely limited as the environment is usually not very well defined. Beyond the sensors needed for perception, the control system needs some basic measure of its position in space and its surrounding reality. Real-time capable sensor processing techniques used to integrate this information have to manage the propagation of their inaccuracies, fuse information to reduce the uncertainties and, ultimately, offer levels of confidence in the produced representations that can be then used for safe navigation decisions and actions.Co-sponsored by: IEEE IMSSpeaker(s): Daniel, Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282350

Technical Webinar organized by AES With the advancement of sensor and communications systems technologies and the desire for better surveillance, the interest in sensor netting has grown significantly over the past few years. This lecture starts by motivating the need for multisensor/multitarget tracking and then develops the fundamental concepts of single target tracking, tracking in the presence of maneuvers, multiple-model tracking, sensor resource management, multitarget tracking, and multiple sensor tracking. Future directions of sensor netting for target tracking and the associated technical challenges is discussed. An illustrative approach with minimal use of equations is taken in this lecture in order to reach a broad audience. Co-sponsored by: IEEE AESS Speaker(s): Dale, Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282349

The Chicago Chapter and co-sponsoring EMCS units welcomes everyone to this informative and entertaining presentation about the roots of our profession. The practice of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is generally understood as beginning with the military in the 1950s. Work in the field was mostly limited to military applications until about 1980, when the FCC in the US and agencies in other countries responded to broadcast interference complaints by setting RF emission limits on commercial products. Though it wasn’t called EMC at the time, those techniques were applied in the late 19th century. Guglielmo Marconi’s company demonstrated wireless telegraphy to the British navy, hoping for a contract to sell the equipment. However, the spark-gap noise bursts transmitted by Marconi’s wireless limited communication to one pair of devices at a time and Marconi had to fix it in order to close the deal. The stories of ambition, salesmanship, and resourcefulness give a colorful backdrop to our work in EMC. In many ways, EMC practices can be traced back to the very beginning of the radio art. This talk will relate those stories and give a deeper perspective on the often unappreciated work of the EMC engineer. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87123078537?pwd=MzJkMURVMDZpWEJQMkdqbGZCWnJiUT09 Meeting ID: 871 2307 8537 Passcode: 562783 One tap mobile +13126266799, ,87123078537# US (Chicago) +19292056099, , 87123078537# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 871 2307 8537 Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kcgpf7i58 We are looking forward to a great meeting and wonderful presentation by an EMC expert . Speaker(s): Tom Braxron , Agenda: Welcoming Remarks, Speaker Introduction , Presentation, Q & A , Closing Remarks Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282680

Technical Webinar organized by IEEE/IMS Industry 4.0 is considered the great revolution of the past few years. New technologies, the Internet of things, the possibility to monitor everything from everywhere changed both plants and the approaches to the industrial production. Medicine is considered a slowly changing discipline. The human body model is a difficult concept to develop. But we can identify some passages in which medicine can be compared to industry. Four major changes revolutionized medicine: - Medicine 1.0: James Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of DNA. This was the beginning of research in the field of molecular and cellular biology - Medicine 2.0: Sequencing the Human genome. This discovery made it possible to find the origin of the diseases. - Medicine 3.0: The convergence of biology and engineering. Now the biologist’s experience can be combined with the technology of the engineers. New approaches to new forms of analysis can be used. - Medicine 4.0: Digitalization of Medicine: IOT devices and techniques, AI to perform analyses, Machine Learning for diagnoses, Brain Computer Interface, Smart wearable sensors. Medicine 4.0 is definitely a great revolution in the patient care. New horizons are possible today. Covid 19 has highlighted problems that have existed for a long time. Relocation of services, which means remote monitoring, remote diagnoses without direct contact between the doctor and the patient. Hospitals are freed from routine tests that could be performed by patients at home and reported by doctors on the internet. Potential dangerous conditions can be prevented. During the Covid emergency everybody can check his condition and ask for a medical visit (swab) only when really necessary. This is true telemedicine. This is not a whatsapp where an elder tries to chat with a doctor. This is a smart device able to measure objective vital parameters and send to a health care center. Of course Medicine 4.0 requires new technologies for smart sensors. These devices need to be very easy to use, fast, reliable and low cost. They must be accepted by both people and doctors. In this talk we’ll see together the meaning of telemedicine and E-Health. E-health is the key to allowing people to self monitor their vital signals. Some devices already exist but a new approach will allow to everybody (especially older people with cognitive difficulties) to use these systems with a friendly approach. Telemedicine will be the new approach to the concept of hospital. A virtual hospital, without any physical contact but with an objective measurement of every parameter. A final remote discussion between the doctor and the patient is still required to feel comfortable. But the doctor will have all the vital signal recorded to allow him to make a diagnosis based on reliable data. Another important aspect of medicine 4.0 is the possibility of using AI both to perform parameter measurement and to manage the monitoring of multiple patients. The new image processing based on Artificial Neural Networks allows doctors to have a better and faster analysis. But AI algorithms are also able to manage intensive care rooms with several patients reducing the number of doctors involved in the global monitoring of the situation. Co-sponsored by: IEEE IMS Speaker(s): Eros, Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282351

This topical ONLINE event is hosted by IEEE Galveston Bay Section/Region 5 and is organized by the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), Technical Committee on Robotics Measurements (TC-17). It is being held online and the registration for the event is complimentary for both the presenters and the audience. Co-sponsored by: IMEKO TC17 Agenda: The event will consist of 1- A Keynote, 2-presentation by the authors, 3- A virtual tour VR/AR lab of the University of Tokyo. DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE POSTED ON WWW.ISMCR.ORG website Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/278726