SMI2G MEETING 2014
SME RTD partner presentation
Name: Harry Tsahalis
Head of R&D and Business Development
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Aeronautics & Aviation
Surface Transport
Research & Development
• RTD Partner
• In-house R&T
ICT
• R&T consultancy
(specialized)
Security
Energy
Environment
Instrumentation Sales/Support
• Sensing & Actuation
• Data acquisition
Process / Manufacturing
industry
• Data loggers
• DSP
• Software
• Other
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Commercial – Technical
• Applications / Solutions
development and services
• Measurement
applications and services
(Experimental, Industrial,
& Safety)
Dissemination & Networking
• IC-SCCE
conference series
• IC-EpsMsO
conference series
Critical Infrastructure Protection
DRS-16-2014: Critical Infrastructure Protection topic 6
Maritime Border Security
BES-1-2014: Maritime Border Security topic 1
Improving the Aviation security chain
Radar systems for the surveillance of coastal and pre-frontier
areas and in support of search and rescue operations
DRS-17-2014/2015: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7
BES-3-2014: Maritime Border Security topic 3
SME instrument topic - “Protection of urban soft targets and
urban critical infrastructures”
Light optionally piloted vehicles (and sensors) for maritime
surveillance
Ethical / Societal Dimension
Urban Security
FCT-11-2014: Urban security topic 2
FCT-13-2014: Ethical/Societal Dimension Topic 1
Factors affecting (in-) security
BES-14-2014: Ethical Societal Dimension topic 1
Human factors in border control
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Countering the terrorist use of an explosive threat, across the
timeline of a plot, including the detection of explosives in a
flow
FCT-12-2014 Urban security topic 3
Minimum intrusion tools for de-escalation during mass
gatherings improving citizens’ protection
CONTACT
Harry Tsahalis
htsahalis@paragon.gr
+30 - 210 - 2220 - 008
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Computational –
Artificial Intelligence
Evolutionary Computation –
Multi-objective optimization
Human Response Modeling
Acoustics & Vibration
Modeling - Simulation
Design
Objective + Subjective
parameters
Measurements –
Processing – Analysis
Control
Layout - Topology
Human Perception
Monitoring – Control –
Diagnostics
Analysis
Analysis – Decision making
Modeling – Assessment –
Monitoring – Control
Human Factors
Other applications
Workflow (Tasks,
Simulatrions)
Control
Optimization of Sensor /
Actuation Networks
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Adaptronics
Model-independent
Adaptronics
Detection - Tracking Trajectory Prediction
OTHER TOPICS
Active Vibration Control
NO A-priori Expertise
required
e.g., RADAR-based
Fault Detection & Health
Monitoring applications
Active Structural Vibration
Control
NO Models required
e.g., ACOUSTICS-based
Renewable Energies (incl.
Co-/Tri- generation)
Active Noise Control
On-line System Set-Up &
Operation
Structural Health
Monitoring
AVC – ANC – SHM – AFC
applications
Active Flow Control
Combined Systems
Sensor and/or Actuator
Networks Optimization
Combined Systems
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Petroleum industry (incl.
oil spill/pollution)
Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Civil Security Monitoring
Platform
Human Response
Modeling
Human Response
Modeling
• Active Monitoring –
Protection Systems (SHM,
AVC)
• Airport Terminals
Surveillance
• Acoustic-based Event/Threat
Detection
• Sensor-based Response /
• ‘Human Perception’ in
Aircraft Virtual design loop
• Human-centred Layout /
Environment systems Design
Environment assessment
• Aircraft / Airlines context –
for Passengers, Cabin crews,
Pilots
Info & Links: http://www.b2match.eu/h2020transportcall2014-2015/participants/4
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ICT
ICT
ICT
IST-NMP
• Harmonic
Radar for
Automotive
• SW - VRUs
Tracking –
Trajectory
Prediction
• Multiobjective
Optimization
• Multiobjective
Optimization
• Multiobjective
Optimization
AERONAUTICS
AERONAUTICS
AERONAUTICS
AERONAUTICS
Human Response Modeling
Health Effects in Aircraft Cabin Environment
HOMER – Human Ontology Model for it’s Environmental Response
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) –based model comprising of broad
range Environmental (interior environment) + Medical-Physiological +
Psychological-Sociological parameters for Aircraft Users Comfort-HealthPerformance Simulation, Measurement, Assessment
Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next
Design Optimisation
HOMER – Human Ontology Model for it’s Environmental Response
New process for more inclusive and accelerated Human-centered Aircraft Cabin
Environmental Control System(s) Design and Optimization, i.e., Multifaceted
Virtual Human rating of ECS systems designs
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Model-independent Adaptronics–Active Monitoring / Control Systems
Active Vibration Control systems
Active Noise Control systems
Active
Control
Systems
(incl. Active Structural Acoustic Control)
Structural Health Monitoring
(Passive and/or Active)
Active Flow Control
AUTOMATED
Active Vibration Control example
Actuator-induced vibration
Pressure wave-induced vibration
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ECU SwModule for Harmonic and/or Conventional Radar -based applications
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Radar Data
Noise Reduction
Extract - Detect
• Simulated Data
• Tag / Conventional
• Real Position
• Clutter / Noise
• Thresholds: Linear,
Exponential, Adaptive
• Grid area max/peak
• Adjacent Cell calc.
• Discretization Noise
Associate
Track & Predict
• Gates & False “plots”
• “Plot”-to-Track Association
• Handle Orphan “plots”
• Handle Abandoned Tracks
• Estimate Current State
• Predict next state
• Longer Trajectory Forecast
• Detect more features