Fault Tolerant Computing  Dr. Kieckhafer is heading an area focused on fault tolerant distributed computing. The core of this work involves voting algorithms that allow redundant computers to come to agreement by eliminating the most unlikely fault mode. This work has a broad range of relevance. |
MEMS Center in Wireless Integrated Microsystems A multi-university National Engineering Research Center in Wireless Integrated Microsystems funded by the National Science Foundation gives MTU a strong base for microtechnology research. Among its first projects, the center will design a next generation cochlear implant for which MTU will design and build a |
Pedestrian Detection System This is a novel approach to vehicle warning systems. The system is “active” in the sense that it relies on the external objects to be avoided to communicate their presence to the vehicle on their own. In this approach, the external objects inform the car of their presence without the car having to directly search for them. The means by which this is accomplished in by a wireless signal that presumably each pedestrian would be giving out from their cellular phones. The car’s detection system would assume that wherever a cellular signal is present, so is a pedestrian. Additional objects that a driver would also want to avoid (such as a bridge), could be given the ability to also send a cellular signal to the car. |
Location and Tracking Technology Development and Testing Service  This is one of the few laboratories across the country that specializes in antenna location and tracking systems. Efforts are focused on developing and promoting a location technology development and research Center of Excellence. The Center will offer a research service component to advance the development and design of new products in the location and tracking space. In addition, the Center would become one of only ten facilities in the world to provide antenna testing facilities aimed at the automotive market. The program is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
Broadband Communication Systems This research program covers a range of targets in broadband communication systems including ultra-broadband wireless communication networks and testbed, routing, protocol design and analysis. Additional topics for investigation are spread spectrum communications, CDMA, signal design and detection, modulation and coding, and synchronization.
This research program also covers optical wireless communications networks, ultra-broadband wireless transceiver design and implementation, communications circuits, and integrated broadband automotive networks. |
Information System Modeling, Management and Efficient Data Retrieval This research is focused at correlating the application level data-modeling requirements to the data-representation power of the database system architectures. Complex applications in engineering, financial, and biological systems are being studied with their systemic implementations using the relational, object-relational, object-oriented, and deductive database models. The challenge faced in efficient evaluation of complex content-based queries constitutes a significant component of this research. |
Networks for Distributed Sensor Processing This is a research program with specific applications in sensor networks. General research capabilities include statistical sensor array processing, adaptive filtering, target tracking, Bayesian inference, and decision network theory and applications. The research is focused on ultra-wideband wireless communications, cognitive radio networks, distributed sensor processing and networking, including synchronization and channel equalization, multi-user and distributed detection, MIMO systems, dynamic spectrum access, and information fusion for sensor networks. |
Statistical Modeling and Inference for Computational Imaging and Signal Analysis This is an extensive research program exploring the application of statistical modeling and inference to problems in computational imaging and signal analysis. Formative work was conducted in the area of multi-frame blind deconvolution with physical system-constraints. More recently, the program has been oriented toward system design and analysis for computational sensing and imaging; image restoration and synthesis with system uncertainties; active imaging with sparse arrays; multi-spectral mine detection; and image recovery from intensity measurements. The work has cross-cutting application including aeronautical and aerospace engineering. |
Sensor, Ad Hoc and Wireless Network Security and Vulnerability This research and technology development program is focused on sensor networks including issues related to vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks, cross-layer network design, dependable computing and communication systems, as well as network resource allocation & management. Most recent activity has been focused on tireless network security: cyber security assessment, systematic security design as well as vulnerability analysis and trust models for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. |
Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory The robotics and embedded systems laboratory conducts research on large scale networked system of distributed robotics and sensors, body sensor networks and sensor network applications in intelligent transportation systems. Current lines of inquiry include scalable coordination for hybrid sensor/actuator networks, multi-robot and sensor coordination, body sensor networks, sensor network localization using mobile robots, mobile sensor navigation in hybrid sensor networks, and real-time protocols for sensor networks. |
Automotive Antenna Measurement Instrumentation This project creates a near-field antenna measurement system, for use in research and education on automobile antennas. The system will be a spherical near-field antenna measurement system capable of measuring on-vehicle antenna performance in the frequency range 800 MHz to 6 GHz for a variety of vehicle platforms. Major components include: (1) positioning and control equipment, which controls the motion of the vehicle platform; (2) signal source and receiver component, which generates the radio frequency test signal and measures the coupling between the desired source antenna and the antenna under test; and (3) the data collection and processing component. The research will involve vehicle-level measurement techniques, development of mathematical models for on-vehicle antennas and vehicle-integrated antenna designs. This equipment allows Oakland to contribute to the growing field of automotive telematics, which has relevance to safety (e.g. broadcasting location and occurrence of events like collisions and airbag deployment), to security operations (e.g. track or disable stolen vehicles), and to convenience (e.g., concierge services, navigation assistance, etc.). Industrial collaborations and support will be major aspects of this project. The equipment will also be used heavily in undergraduate education, in student training, and in outreach to minorities in the Pontiac, Michigan and Detroit, Michigan public schools. |
CyberSecurity Capacity Building This project is disseminating results and providing support materials for The Information Assurance and Security (IAS) Education project. The IAS, initially developed in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Management, Marketing, and Finance at North Dakota State University (NDSU), helps achieve Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and Security Education. The IAS is built upon close collaborations with consultants and partnerships from academia, industry and government. Project tasks include:
1. Training our faculty through the Center of Academic Excellence in Information
Assurance Education at Iowa State University, in which faculty members develop and deliver information assurance security modules able to be readily included in core courses in IAS.
2. Developing new courses and revising existing ones by integrating IAS modules into selected courses. The federal training documents provided by the Committee on
National Security Systems (CNSS) will be consulted.
3. Tailoring student capstone and course projects to IAS.
4. Establishing partnerships between disciplines and departments, among the U.S. academic institutions, industry and government, for developing specific projects and involving their personnel in teaching.
5. Developing the career interest of junior high school girls in IAS by organizing a workshop session. |
Ultra-Broadband Optical Wireless Communication Networks This collaborative research project undertakes a multidisciplinary approach to optical wireless communications (OWC) networks and focuses on the first/last mile between the existing fiber-optic backbone and many homes and small of-fice buildings. The project aims at developing novel OWC networking and communications theory and techniques including those at the physical layer that overcome the scintillation (variation in light intensity) caused by the at-mospheric turbulence in OWC networks through sub-carrier modulation and coding, and those at the link and network layers that take into consideration the unique capabilities and constraints of OWC when designing optimal topol-ogy, survivable routing, and innovative dynamic reconfiguration algorithms to mitigate the negative effects of heavy or dense fog, as well as reduce the per link cost. As a result of the project effort, an OWC ring network will be built, running multimedia applications. The success of the project is expected to pro-vide an affordable ultra-broadband first/last mile access, enable new multime-dia applications to be delivered to residential homes and small office buildings, and serve as a stepping stone to the integration of heterogeneous technologies based on radio frequency (e.g., Wireless Local Area Networks, WLAN, and cellu-lar networks) and fibers. |
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