
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology
Developing technology for defending the nation from missile threats
We develop and assess integrated systems for defense against missiles and other threats. Our activities include investigating system architectures, developing advanced sensor and decision support systems, making field measurements, and assessing deployed system capabilities.
Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology Groups
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Combining Neural Networks and Histogram Layers for Underwater Target Classification
New machine learning methods capture statistical features within sonar data to distinguish between sound sources.
Underwater PB&J: Combining Diver and Robot Strengths for Optimized Mid-Mission Teaming
New navigation and vehicle autonomy algorithms consider which tasks humans and autonomous systems respectively do best, with the goal of improving search path planning and object classification in underwater environments.
Radio-Based Navigation for Environments Without GPS
With the goal of enabling navigation in environments where GPS is unavailable or unreliable, researchers are developing algorithms to fuse information across a network of small, low-power radio-frequency devices.
Undersea Vision-Based Navigation and Pose Determination for Human-Robot Teaming
Undersea vision-based navigation and pose determination will enable divers and robots to collaboratively solve complex tasks in an inherently unstructured environment.
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David Whelihan
John O'Rourke
Karyn Lundberg
Andrew Mack
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Defense Technology Seminar (DTS) for U.S. Military Academy - 2024
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Featured Publications
Backdoor poisoning of encrypted traffic classifiers
System analysis for responsible design of modern AI/ML systems
Probabilistic coordination of heterogeneous teams from capability temporal logic specifications
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