Intelligent Large Scale Sensing Systems (ILS 3 ) initiative Initiative Status and Activities Kevin M. McNeill, PhD Research Assoc. Professor Director,

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Intelligent Large Scale Sensing Systems (ILS3) initiative

Initiative Status and Activities

Kevin M. McNeill, PhDResearch Assoc. Professor

Director, Computer Engineering Research LaboratoryElectrical & Computer Engineering

University of Arizona


Agenda

• Guiding Model• Progress

– Collaborative Laboratory– Integration with Education– Research Projects

• Next Steps


Sensor Networks & Fusion Levels

Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) Fusion Model – (DoD Labs)

Sensing Observations

Source Pre-processing

Entity Refinement

Situation Refinement

Process Refinement

VisualizationKnowledge,

Decision Support

Raw, Low-level observation

events

Abstraction Level

We are interested in systems with

1,000s of sensors


Progress

• ILS3 Collaborative Laboratory (ECE 405)– Obtained sensor development kits – Initiated development of the sensor test-bed for our confined

space tracking problem– Sent students to training on sensor platforms– Initiated discussion for collaboration with Computer Science

• Submitted $2.5M NSF multi-investigator proposal for sensing systems research

• Developing $5M NSF proposal in collaboration with industry for sensor related mobile networking– Software defined radio– Programmable radios– DARPA neXt Generation (XG) spectrum management


Integration with Education

Architecture Framework

being developed in ECE 678

by MS & PhD students


Progress

• Finalizing details for Sensor Fusion Research project Funding of ~$200K– Negotiating donation of ~$1M in computing equipment– Will deploy multi-layer fusion system in the ILS3 Collaborative

Laboratory– Primary focus is Layer 2 fusion

• Database representing 4 hours of sensor event messages for a “scenario” provided by the sponsor

• Goal: create AI-based algorithms to achieve Level 2 fusion across hundreds of elements (with thousands of observations) in real-time

• Includes strong Visualization element

– Sponsor by USArmy Battle Labs– Potential partners: SGI, Apple, USA Information Systems

Engineering Command


Brute Force Fusion Research


NEXT STEPS

• Finish outfitting the collaborative Lab– Complete the sensor test-bed– Demonstrate working system

• Set up Brute Force Fusion project


Thank You

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Intelligent Large Scale Sensing Systems (ILS 3 ) initiative Initiative Status and Activities Kevin M. McNeill, PhD Research Assoc. Professor Director,