Systems Engineering for Autonomous Systems (SEAS) Defence Technology Centre (DTC)
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Areas of Interest > Sensor Exploitation

Sensor Exploitation

 

The Sensor Exploitation research theme has the following areas of interest :
Target Identification, Classification and Correlation : Work to improve the extraction and processing of information from sensors and the correlation of sensor derived information with information of differing modalities
Sensor Management : Development of strategies for managing the suite of sensors on a platform or group of platforms including :
autonomous tasking of sensors to develop the best possible situational awareness without operator intervention
management of sensors within the constraints of the mission plan / rules of engagement
management of the sensor processing resource to address fault tolerance and system availability and integrity

Integration and Architectures : Development of approaches to integrating sensor sub-systems within the context of the vehicle mission system to ensure the best performance within the sensor sub-system for fusing and sharing information

Sensor Correlation : Developing techniques for correlating information within a sensor system containing multiple sensors, including issues such as the registration of images from multiple sensor arrays and the removal of uncertainty from sensor data

 

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Algorithms & architectures

Mission planning & decision making
Sensor exploitation
Communication & control
Propulsion / power generation etc
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