Defense-Focused Autonomy & Navigation Anywhere, Anytime, Using Anything WE SPECIALIZE IN MILITARY PNT Research Education Engineering RESEARCH THRUST 1 RESEARCH THRUST 2 RESEARCH THRUST 3 Autonomous & Cooperative Systems Non-GPS Navigation GPS & GNSS Navigation/NAVWAR How do we increase the level of autonomy for military systems? How do we get PNT worldwide, in all environments, to support precision combat? How do we maintain the performance advantage of GPS over all potential adversary systems? UNIQUE POSITION. MISSION-FOCUSED SOLUTIONS. TRUSTED EXPERTISE Because we are fully government and fully academia, we serve a unique role in educating the future workforce and maximizing the effectiveness of our warfighters in accordance with national objectives. We take on relevant, high-risk research projects that deliver student theses and dissertations across the spectrum of autonomy and PNT topics. We offer the community more than a decade of mission-focused expertise from an academic and government perspective. This comes in the form of: 1 2 3 TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP CONSULTING WE ARE FULLY GOVERNMENT RESEARCH TOPICS Non-GPS Navigation Vision Navigation UAS Research Cooperative Systems GPS/GNSS Sensor Integration Autonomous Systems Inertial Navigation Systems Estimation WE ARE FULLY ACADEMIA THESES & DISSERTATIONS 107 57 69 41 32 47 75 37 146
IN-DEMAND EXPERTISE Established in August 2005 Our research is 100% externally funded by government, academia, and industry sponsors. SPONSOR FUNDING & MANPOWER GROWTH $4m 16 $3.5m 14 $3m 12 GPS & GNSS Navigation/NAVWAR research formalized in $2.5m 2013, adding significant capability to our research portfolio. 10 $2m 8 $1.5m 6 $1m 4 $0.5m 2 $0 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Expended Sponsored Research Manpower Growth STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS The ANT Center has worked with more than 30 sponsors since its establishment in 2005, developing long-term strategic partnerships with AFRL, Army CERDEC, DARPA, the 746th Test Squadron, the USAF Test Pilot School, and the Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation and Timekeeping.
AUTONOMOUS & COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH OVERVIEW The Air Force Institute of Technology provides graduate coursework and conducts extensive research in artificial intelligence, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and human-machine teaming. A newly offered graduate certificate in autonomy explores these categories in depth (as detailed below). With five certified UAS operators on staff, the ANT Center specializes in collaborative UAS design, development, and indoor/outdoor flight test experiments with fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft carrying mission payloads. AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & ROBOTICS HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) COOPERATIVE NAVIGATION CONTACT: Dr. David Jacques david.jacques@afit.edu (937) 255-3636 x3329 PROJECT HIGHLIGHT: CONVOY OVERWATCH Using a low-cost UAS, ANT Center students demonstrated autonomous overwatch capabilities to enhance situational awareness for convoys. The UAS successfully followed a vehicle and kept it in the field of view of a gimbaled camera. Extensions to this research include noncooperative tracking of enemy vehicles. GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN AUTONOMY EENG 550 Introduction to Autonomy (with one of three elective sequences:) Artificial Intelligence for Autonomy CSCE 523 Artificial Intelligence CSCE 623 Statistical Machine Learning CSCE 723 Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence Unmanned Systems SENG 550 Small UAS Concept Definition and Preliminary Design SENG 650 Small UAS Detailed Design SENG 651 Small UAS Test & Evaluation Human-Machine Teaming HFEN 560 Introduction to Human Factors HFEN 663 Human Computer Interaction HFEN 665 Human-Agent Interaction CSCE 823 Artificial Neural Networks
NON-GPS NAVIGATION RESEARCH OVERVIEW Since 2000, ANT Center researchers have been exploring non-gps navigation technologies for military applications. The breadth and depth of this effort is unparalleled, resulting in nearly 400 theses and dissertations on alternative navigation topics. Most notably, the ANT Center is internationally recognized for its leading role in vision-aided navigation, sensor integration, inertial navigation systems, and estimation. In total, the ANT Center has explored more than 15 different Non-GPS phenomenologies. LIDAR VISION STAR TRACKERS RADAR (UWB INCLUDING OFDM AND NOISE RADAR) PSEUDOLITES/BEACONS RSS FOR WIRELESS SENSORS VLF/SPHERIC (LIGHTNING) 15+ UNIQUE AREAS OF NON-GPS RESEARCH X-RAY PULSARS COMM-RADIO RANGING COLD-ATOM INTERFEROMETRY INS GRAVITY FIELD GRADIOMETRY MAGNETIC FIELD ANOMALIES SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITY ODOR SOUND CONTACT: Dr. John Raquet john.raquet@afit.edu (937) 255-3636 x4580 PROJECT HIGHLIGHT: AERIAL NAVIGATION USING MAGNETIC ANOMALY FIELDS Because magnetic anomaly fields are available world-wide at all times and are robust to jamming, Magnetic Anomaly Navigation has great potential to overcome many common limitations to alternative navigation technologies. Recent tests prove that a high-quality nationwide magnetic anomaly map is feasible in terms of cost and implementation. A map-matching navigation system using measurements of the Earth s magnetic anomaly field COURSES EENG 534 Fundamentals of Aerospace Instruments and Navigation Systems EENG635 Inertial Navigation Subsystems EENG638 Alternative Navigation Methods (Coming Fall 2016) EENG734 Multi-target Tracking EENG 735 Inertial Navigation System Analysis and Integration EENG 765 Stochastic Estimation and Control I EENG 766 Stochastic Estimation and Control II
GPS & GNSS NAVIGATION/NAVWAR RESEARCH OVERVIEW Several new satellite navigation systems both global and regional are expected to become fully operational within the next decade. Global systems from Europe and China, and regional systems in Japan and India, will undoubtedly benefit the deployed American warfighter with increased availability, frequency diversity, and continuity of mission. The ANT Center is working to ensure trusted, reliable PNT when using open GNSS signals for military operations. AUTHENTICATION We analyze signal layer characteristics. Highly-flexible FPGA-based real-time chip shape correlation engine Next generation GPS signal structures and authentication research Antenna electronics and front-end development AVAILABILITY We research and develop algorithms to maintain GNSS operation under high interference conditions. Multi-band, multi-element data recording and accelerated processing systems for 24/7 monitoring Multi-element CRPA processing AT THE CENTER of authentication, availability, and integrity is where trusted GNSS is realized. INTEGRITY We perform intersystem cross-checks using open architecture GNSS SDR. Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) Fault detection and exclusion (FDE) CONTACT: Dr. Sanjeev Gunawardena sanjeev.gunawardena (937) 255-3636 x4659 PROJECT HIGHLIGHT: SPACEJAM SPACEJAM, an electronic warfare trainer for GPS-denied environments, was flight tested on an F-16D at the USAF Test Pilot School in 2013. The system successfully jammed the receiver while withstanding the high-g environment and without the need for open-air jamming, leading to an official program of record at AFRL. COURSES EENG 530 Fundamentals of Radio Frequency (RF) Analysis EENG 533 Navigation Using the Global Positioning System EENG 629 Electronic Warfare 1 EENG 633 GNSS Receiver Design EENG 665 Random Signal and Systems Analysis
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