The Advance of Sensor Networks and Autonomous Systems

By Assad Ebrahim, on March 19th, 2010
Topic: Technology-Advanced

The past five years have seen the emergence of a growing array of autonomous swimming, flying, and rolling vehicles, each highly sensored and capable of real-time communication with processors external to themselves. Practical designs are now commercially available for each of the four primary areas of our environment: terrestrial, marine (subsea, surface, and amphibian), [...]

The Advance of Marine Micro-ROVs

By Assad Ebrahim, on March 19th, 2010
Topic: Technology-Advanced

A Versatile Tool for Marine Operations, and a Portable Undersea Platform for Small Sensors

Micro-ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) are becoming increasingly capable even as their size and cost drop, opening up new possibilities for the application of undersea inspection, imaging, and measurement.

In this article, I’ll discuss four reasons why Micro-ROVs should be a routinely used part [...]

Sensors and Systems

By Assad Ebrahim, on March 5th, 2010
Topic: Technology-Advanced

… Integrating Sensors into the Ubiquitous Computing Stack

“Smart dust”, tiny leaf sensors, wearable computing — these and a host of other sensors that make measurements and communicate without requiring human intervention can now be readily integrated into dispersed systems to provide ambient intelligence, situational awareness, and the capability for adaptive behaviors or intelligent process automation. [...]

Knowledge Engineering

By Assad Ebrahim, on January 12th, 2010
Topic: Technology-Advanced

…and the Emerging Technologies of the Next Decade

Between Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Statistics, is emerging an area of effort concerned, not just with using data or information gathered slowly over months or years, but with its real-time acquisition, interpretation and analysis, and its real-time use in appropriate decision-making, automatic adjustment, and [...]
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