The Huntsville Section and JCAM Society Present IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Arun Somani, with a presentation entitled “Autonomous Aero-Visual and Sensor Based Inspection Network for Asset Monitoring”

Abstract

This talk introduces a theoretical and experimental program to develop the inspection and fault detection technology needed to integrate MAVs for persistent intelligence, reconnaissance, maintenance and surveillance for obscured or logistically challenging assets in non-urban environments. The design is explained using a context of heterogeneous deployment of wireless sensors for real-time asset monitoring by anticipating exceptional conditions and building the system to cope with them. The system converges towards an error-free state with self-stabilization, the ability to fall back to a safe mode in a financially feasible manner. This sophisticated mechanism requires a real-time capacity estimation capability to sustain the quality-of-service, which can be achieved by a distributed sensor network. We discuss issues in design and information propagation in such sensor clustered topology, optimization for power-aware networking, and link and node capacity assignment to achieve the desired goals.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Arun K. Somani is currently Anson Marston Distinguished Professor and Jerry R. Junkins Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his MSEE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He has worked as Scientific Officer for Govt. of India, New Delhi from 1974 to 1982 and as a faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from 1985 to 1997.

Professor Somani’s current research focuses on scalable architectures and algorithms to manage optical fiber networks, reconfigurable architecture, and developing solution for critical infrastructure protection. He has published more than 250 technical papers, several book chapters, one book, and has supervised more than 60 MS and more than 25 PhD students. His

He has served on several program committees of various conferences in various capacities. He has served as IEEE distinguished visitor and IEEE distinguished tutorial speaker. He has delivered several key note speeches, tutorials and distinguished and invited talks all over the world. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to “theory and applications of computer networks.” He has been awarded a Distinguished Scientist member grade of ACM in 2006.

Event Details and Reservations

Lunch will be provided free of charge to IEEE members.  Non-members may pay $10 upon arrival.

Date:  Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Time: 11 A.M. – 1 P.M.  (Lunch starts at 11:15 am).

Location: Adtran, Inc., East Tower, 901 Explorer Blvd., Huntsville, AL

Please RSVP to Eric Grigorian no later than Monday, May 10th.  Click here for Eric’s contact information.
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