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Systems Engineering for Autonomous
Systems Defence Technology Centre
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2007 Conference
Materials Proceedings of Second Annual Conference,
10 & 11 July 2007
Edinburgh International
Conference Centre |
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Foreword
On behalf of the Board of the Systems
Engineering for Autonomous Systems Defence Technology
Centre (SEAS DTC), I should like to extend a warm welcome
to all participants in this, our second, annual technical
conference.
During our second year of operation,
we have built upon the progress made in the first year,
with several research projects now maturing and other
ones being added to the DTC’s portfolio. In particular,
we have been striving to identify ways in which we can
develop integrated, exploitable capabilities by linking
work being done in different DTC areas. The objectives
of this conference are to present the status of the research,
to illustrate our integration work, to enable you to
interact with the researchers and to help form relationships
between the researchers, industry and MoD in order to
support future exploitation of the research outputs.
The conference is organised into three
parallel sessions over the two days, largely based around
the structure of the DTC’s research programme,
which has six research themes :
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Stream A (in
the Kilsyth room) covers the Sensor Exploitation
and Algorithms & Architectures themes. |
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Stream B (in
the Moorfoot room) covers the Mission Planning & Decision-making
and Systems Engineering Research themes. |
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Stream C (in
the Tinto room) covers the Communications & Control
and Propulsion, Power Generation & Energy
Management themes |
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This year, the theme-based sessions
will focus on our efforts to bring strands of DTC work
together into coherent ‘threads’ which start
to show how the work may be exploited. As last year,
we also have plenary sessions in the Pentland Auditorium
where we will be presenting aspects of our cross-DTC
activities. Also, we will again have a strong focus in
the conference programme on providing practical demonstrations
of outcomes of DTC work.
We are again delighted to be sharing
the conference venue and events with our colleagues from
the EMRS DTC. Delegates are free to move between sessions
in the two conferences.
Although the DTC’s research
work is at a low technology maturity level, we are always
keen to pursue possible exploitation routes. We thus
encourage you to use the conference to talk to the researchers
to stimulate ideas for future research direction, and
to consider how the fruits of their research might be
exploited to the advantage of the UK.
The presenters range from PhD students,
still getting to grips with new subject areas, through
to world leaders in their field. Please give them your
support. Bear in mind that what is being presented is
a snapshot of the DTC’s work at a point in time,
with some projects much further into their programmes
of work than others. We hope that you will enjoy the
presentations and will also take the opportunity to attend
the conference reception on the evening of the first
day. Of course, we also hope that you enjoy your stay
in historic Edinburgh.
Dr Bill Bardo
SEAS DTC Technical Director
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