2010 PPL Workshop Agenda

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

7:30 - Registration and Continental Breakfast (Odeum, Campus Center)

8:15 - Welcome - Dr. Eric Overstrom (WPI Provost)

8:25 - Workshop Overview - Dr. R. James Duckworth

8:30 - The Real World of the First Responder (Moderator:William Haskell, Program Director, NIOSH-NPPTL)

Fireground Injury and Death: Not EVERYONE Goes Home!! (Chief Billy Goldfeder, EFO, Deputy Chief, Loveland-Symmes FD, Ohio)
First Responder Location - The Real World (Ric Plummer, Fire Engineer, Firefighter, Berlin Fire Department, Berlin MA and Jeff Lenti, STOP Team, Mass. State Police Academy)

10:00 - Break

10:20 - Government and User Perspectives (Moderator: Casey Grant, Program Director, Fire Protection Research Foundation)

LASD/3SI Pilot Project Summary (Michael Eckert, Deputy Sheriff, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)
An Overview of GPS-denied Technology Development within the OSD-funded Test and Evaluation / Science and Technology (T&E/S&T) Program (Thomas MacDonald, Systems Engineer, OSD / MacroVision / TRMC)
Future Soldier Initiative (Scott Ullery, Engineer, US Army NSRDEC)

11:20 - Inertial and Integrated Navigation Systems, Part I (Moderator: Casey Grant, Program Director, Fire Protection Research Foundation)

Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER®) Technology for Emergency Responder (Dr. Hans Schantz, Chief Technical Officer, Q-Track Corporation)
Personal Dead-reckoning (PDR) System for Firefighters (Johann Borenstein, Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept. Univ. of Michigan)

12:00 - Lunch

12:30 - Keynote Speaker:

1^st Responder Location Tracking Technology Development at DHS S &T: Past, Present, and Future (Jalal Mapar, Program Manager, DHS, S&T Directorate)

1:30 - Inertial and Integrated Navigation Systems, Part II (Moderator: Nader Moayeri, Senior Technical Advisor, Advanced Technologies Division, NIST)

DTRA for GPS-Denied Navigation and Mapping (Kenneth Graves, C2 Product Manager, Harris Corporation / RF Communications)
Development of a Hybrid Personnel Location System (Lin Haas, Senior Program Manager, Argon ST)
TRX Systems Sentrix Navigation System: Developments and Features (Carole Teolis, CTO, TRX Systems)
Honeywell GLANSER Emergency Responder Locator System (Steve Huseth, Research Fellow, Honeywell ACS Labs)
Integrated Pedestrian Tracking System (Todd Faulkner, Staff Scientist, ENSCO, Inc.)
Heuristic Navigation (Kent Garland, NAVISEER Product Manager, SEER Technology, Inc.)

3:30 - Comments - Congressman James P. McGovern (MA, 3^rd)

3:45- Demonstrations, Exhibits and Posters (Odeum C, Hagglund and Mid-Century)

Odeum C - Poster Presentations

Intelligent Radiation Sensor System (IRSS) Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD) (Daniel Cooper, Senior Scientist, Passport Systems, Inc.)
Bringing Precision Navigation Indoors (Major Kenneth A. Fisher, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of EE, AFIT, WPAFB, OH)
The Geodetics Personal Navigator (GPN) (Shahram Moafipoor, Navigation Scientist, Geodetics, Inc.)
Standards Relative to Design, Selection, Care and Maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment for the American Fire Service (Kenneth Willette, Division Manager, NFPA)
Design choices, tuning, and calibration of foot-mounted ZUPT aided INS (John-Olof Nilsson, PhD Student, Signal Processing Dept./Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
Development of a 3-D Personal Navigation System for First Responders using Human Gait Characteristics (Timofey Spiridonov, Graduate Student, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering/Univ. of Maryland)
Emergency Responder Locator (ER-Locator) (Robert Kelly, Faculty Researcher, Monmouth University/Rapid Response Institute)
Wireless Intelligent Sensor Platform for Emergency Responders (WISPER)
(David Siu, Engineer, Oceanit)
Research on Different Techniques for Indoor Positioning (Jouni Rantakokko, Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)
Overview of Personal Navigation Systems at Northrop Grumman Corporation (Han Park, Manager, Advanced Navigation Solutions, Northrop Grumman Corporation)
Monitoring the Location of Firefighters Using Available Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag Technology and Newly Developed Software (Daniel B. Moran, Deputy Fire Coordinator, Hazardous Materials, Rockland County Fire and Emergency Services, Pomona, New York)
Localization Challenges in the Structural Firefighting Environment
(Francine Amon, Leader, Firefighting Technology Group, NIST)
Robust Algorithms For Real-Time Detection Of Motion Artifacts And Accurate Estimation Of Respiratory Rates Using Pulse Oximeter (N. Selvaraj, K. H. Chon, Biomedical Engineering Department, WPI)

Hagglund - Demonstrations and Exhibits I

WPI Integrated Fireground Environment Sensor, Location and Physiological Monitor (David Cyganski, Professor, ECE Department, WPI)Remote Casualty
Location Assessment Device (RCLAD) (Randy Bryson, VP Business Development, L3/CyTerra Corporation)
3D Building Visualization and Scene Management for Incident Commanders (Stephen McCauley, Product Manager - Visualization Technologies, Kutta Technologies)
Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER®) Technology for Emergency Responder (Dr. Hans Schantz, Chief Technical Officer, Q-Track Corporation)
Zephyr Physiological Status Monitoring System (Jonathan Woodward, CTO, Zephyr Technology/Brian Russell, CEO, Zephyr Technology)
Heuristic Navigation for Tracking in GPS Denied Areas (Kent Garland, NAVISEER Product Manager, SEER Technology, Inc.)
GLANSER Personnel Location and Tracking System (Lin Haas, Senior Program Manager, Argon ST)

Mid Century - Demonstrations and Exhibits II

Personal Dead-reckoning (PDR) System for Firefighters (Johann Borenstein, Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept. Univ. of Michigan)
The Responder Knowledge Base (David T. Williams, RKB Analyst, FEMA Responder Knowledge Base and Michael Forgey, Senior CBRNE Specialist, FEMA Responder Knowledge Base)
Systems Sentrix Navigation System: Developments and Features (Carole Teolis, CFO, TRX Systems)
The Pathfinder System (Dr. Wayne Haase, President, Summit Safety, Inc.)

5:30 - Adjourn

6:00 - Reception and Barbeque (Higgins House)

Reception (cash bar) 6:00 pm

Dinner 7:00 pm

Tuesday August 3rd, 2010

7:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:00 - Keynote Speaker:

Evaluating Technology in the Field: Importance for Emergency Responders (Dr. Nancy Merritt, Senior Policy Advisor, National Institute of Justice)

8:30 - RF and other Technologies (Moderator: Paul Olson, Chief Engineer, Battle Command Division, CERDEC)

Remote Casualty Location Assessment Device (RCLAD) (Jim Bergen, Director, Business Development, L3/CyTerra Corporation)
Rapid Deployment Antenna and Transactional RF Fusion for the WPI PPL System (David Cyganski, Professor, ECE Department, WPI)
Performance Evaluation of the NavShoe™ Personal Dead-Reckoning System (Eric Foxlin, CTO, Intersense Inc.)

Standards (Moderator: Camillo Gentile, Electronics Engineer, NIST Information Technology Lab)

Initial Design and Test of Ground Truth Determination Procedures for Performance Evaluation of Personnel Tracking Technologies (Francine Amon, Leader/Firefighting Technology Group, NIST)
Developing New NFPA Standards - Initial "Working Group" Phase (Larry Konsin, Customer Development, MSA / Working Group Chair, NFPA 1801 TIC Standard)
NFPA Electronic Safety Equipment Standards: An Update (Bruce Varner, Fire Chief / NFPA Technical Committee Chair, Santa Rosa Fire Department)

10:30 - Break

10:45 - Parallel Working Sessions on the State of the Art

PETERSON ROOM: User Community Feedback (Moderator: Fire Chief Mark Amatrudo, Wilton Fire Department, Wilton, CT)
MID-CENTURY ROOM: Standards Development for Location and Tracking Systems (Moderator: Francine Amon, Leader/Firefighting Technology Group, NIST)
HAGGLUND ROOM: Location and Tracking Technology (Moderator: John Orr, Professor, ECE Department, WPI)

12:00 - Lunch

1:00 - Keynote Speaker:

Adaptable Location Systems for Any Environment (Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office, DARPA)

1:30 - Plenary Working Session (Moderator: Dr. R. James Duckworth, Professor, ECE Department, WPI)

2:30 - System Demonstrations Presentation- Worcester Fire Department (Moderator/Organizer: Ric Plummer, Fire Engineer, Firefighter, Berlin, MA Fire Department and John Sullivan, Deputy Fire Chief, Worcester Fire Department)

The following systems took part in the systems testing demonstrations:

Heuristic Navigation for Tracking in GPS Denied Areas (Kent Garland, NAVISEER Product Manager, SEER Technology, Inc.)
Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER®) Technology for Emergency Responder (Dr. Hans Schantz, Chief Technical Officer, Q-Track Corporation)
Personal Dead-reckoning (PDR) System for Firefighters (Johann Borenstein, Research Professor, Mech. Engineering Dept. Univ. of Michigan)

4:30 - Wrap-Up and Plans for the Future (John Orr, Professor, ECE Department, WPI)

*Evaluation Sheets filled out and returned

5:00 - Adjourn

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