2012 Precision Indoor Personnel Location & Tracking Workshop Presentations
Monday, August 6th, 2012
8:15 WPI Welcome – Dr. Eric Overstrom, Provost and Senior Vice President, WPI
8:20 Workshop Welcome – Jalal Mapar, Program Manager, DHS S&T Directorate
8:30 Technology for Safety and Survival
Ernest (Ernie) Mitchell Jr., United States Fire Administrator
9:00 Military and Training Systems
Moderator: Jalal Mapar, Program Manager, DHS S&T Directorate
Wes Hawkinson, Fellow, Honeywell
Gene McLeod, Program Manager, Argon ST
William English, Program Manager, TRX Systems
9:45 PHASER – Physiological Health Assessment
Christopher Cooper, Professor Medicine & Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine
Maxim Batalin, Associate Director, UCLA Engineering Institute for Technology Advancement
Bruce Varner, Fire Chief [Ret.], NFPA Committee Chair, UCLA PHASER Project
10:30 Military and Training Systems
Moderator: David Taylor, Director of Technology Development, ENSCO, Inc.
Next Generation Personal Navigator: An Enhanced Prototype Personal Inertial Navigation System
Yunqian Ma, Principal Research Scientist, Honeywell Aerospace
US ARMY CERDEC Dismounted Soldier Navigation - Update
Paul Olsen, Systems Engineer, CERDEC/Command, Power and Integration
TRX Navigation Technology and “NEON” Personnel Tracking System Introduction
Carole Teolis, CTO / Carole Politi, CEO, TRX Systems
Urban Mapping and Positioning System
Alberto Lacaze, President/Engineer, Robotic Research LLC
12:35 Keynote Speaker:
Paul Benda, Chief of Staff and Director of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA)
“DHS S&T’s Technological Investment in Support of the HSE”
1:30 Inertial and Related Technology
Moderator: Eric Foxlin, Dir. Advanced Programs, Gentex Visionix (formerly InterSense)
WPI Department of Fire Protection Engineering Supporting the Fire Service
Kathy Notarianni, Head, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, WPI
Experimental Results from an Inertial Aided RF Fusion Location System
David Cyganski, Professor, ECE Department, WPI
Personal Dead-reckoning (PDR) System for Firefighters
Johann Borenstein, Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Mobile Mapping in GPS Denied Environments
Elliot Duff, Director / ICTC, CSIRO
Personal Navigation System based on Dual Shoe‐Mounted IMUs and Intershoe Ranging
Tamal Mukherjee, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday August 7th, 2012
8:00 Complementary Technology and Systems
Moderator: Casey Grant, Research Director, Fire Protection Research Foundation
Signal of Opportunity Location Devices for First Responders
Eric Richards, Director, Research & Development, Q-Track Corporation
Markus Valle-Klann, Head of Situated Computing Lab, Fraunhofer FIT
WASP: Wearable Advanced Sensor Platform
Mark Mordecai, Director of Business Development, Globe Manufacturing Company
Greg Best, Project Manager, Advanced Technology Group /
Manfred Sever, Systems Engineer, Trimble Navigation Limited
Testing and Evaluation Standards
Test and Evaluation of Localization and Tracking Systems
Nader Moayeri, Senior Technical Advisor, NIST/Advanced Network Technologies Division
NFPA Electronic Safety Equipment Standards
Bruce Varner, Fire Chief [Ret.], Santa Rosa Fire Department, NFPA Committee Chair, NFPA Electronic Safety Equipment Technical Committee
10:00 Break
10:20 Parallel Working Sessions on the “Where are we? What is next for First Responders?”
MID-CENTURY ROOM: (User Community) - How close are current commercial and research systems to deployability? How well do they work?
What improvements must be made to create a deployable system?
Moderator: Timothy Sendelbach, Editor in Chief, FireRescue Magazine
HAGGLUND ROOM: (Developers) - How close are current commercial and research systems to deployability? How well do they work?
What improvements must be made to create a deployable system?
Moderator: Paul Olsen, Systems Engineer, CERDEC/Command, Power and Integration/U.S. Army
ODEUM C: Beyond location and tracking, what technological developments would be of greatest value to firefighters and other emergency responders?
(Consider capabilities such as physiological and hazardous environment monitoring, communications, flashover prediction, wildland fires.)
Moderator: Marc Harlacher, Director, Geospatial Communications, Argon ST
1:15 Panel and discussion: Where have we been, where are we going, next challenges?
Panel Moderator: Jalal Mapar, DHS S&T / Jim Duckworth, WPI
User Community/First Responder Presentation
Beyond Location and Tracking Presentation
3:00 System Demonstration Results - Worcester Fire Department
Moderator/Organizer: Ric Plummer, Fire Engineer [Ret.], Berlin, MA Fire Dept.
with Chief John Sullivan,Operations Deputy Chief, Worcester Fire Department
Systems Testing Participant: GLANSER (Honeywell)
4:00 Plans for the Future and Wrap-Up
Jalal Mapar, Program Manager, DHS S&T Directorate
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