{"425131":{"#nid":"425131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"For these ASDL researchers, spring break was a time for mid-term check-up","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 20 AE students spent their spring breaks undergoing a mid-term check \u2013 in Panama City.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trip \u2013 and the check-up \u2013 are both part of a year-long collaboration between AE\u2019s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL) and the Naval Engineering Education Center (NEEC) that is exploring the utility of using various unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to detect mines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ASDL sent three teams of researchers to the March 21-22 Panama City review, each with a slightly different focus. All of them came back with positive feedback and plenty of work. The year-long project doesn\u0027t wrap up until September.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe mid-term check is all about getting technical feedback from subject experts,\u201d said J. Charles Domercant, an ASDL research engineer who is working with graduate students on the Mine Countermeasures Grand Challenge project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe experts from NAVSEA [Naval Services Warfare Center \u2013 Panama City Division] gave us some great insight. We\u2019ll be building based on what they gave us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunded by the Office of Naval Research, the Mine Countermeasures Grand Challenge is seeking to design an optimal combination of USV\/UUV equipment for the Navy\u2019s littoral combat ships (LCS). Student researchers in this team will help define what combinations of vehicles, weapons, and sensors should be used to create a mine countermeasures module for the LCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA second team, composed mainly of undergraduate researchers, is looking at the unique maritime communication issues raised by the use of UUVs and USVs for mine detection. A third team is looking to enhance the performance of unmanned systems used in mine countermeasures by developing automated target recognition and decision-making algorithms and methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00221\u0022 align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Panama City Spring Break Crew from ASDL (left to right) Tyler Durkota, Charles Domercant, Scott Ashcraft, Pierre Valdez, Kelly Griendling, Kristen Nosbisch, Nick Molino, Michael Bozeman, Max Van Benthem of NSWC PCD, Mat Bays, and ENSIGN, USN, a graudate student.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 20 AE students spent their spring breaks undergoing a mid-term check \u2013 in Panama City."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-15 15:14:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:04","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"134941","name":"Charles Domercant"},{"id":"134971","name":"Kelly Griendling"},{"id":"134981","name":"Kristen Nosbisch"},{"id":"135021","name":"Mat Bays"},{"id":"135011","name":"Max Van Benthem of NSWC PCD"},{"id":"135001","name":"Michael Bozeman"},{"id":"134991","name":"Nick Molino"},{"id":"134961","name":"Pierre Valdez"},{"id":"171456","name":"Scott Ashcraft"},{"id":"134931","name":"Tyler Durkota"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}