D. Brown, M. Qumsiyeh, G. Subramanyam, M. Patterson, C. H. Zhang
{"title":"Ferroelectric thin-film characterization through use of coplanar waveguide varactors","authors":"D. Brown, M. Qumsiyeh, G. Subramanyam, M. Patterson, C. H. Zhang","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531046","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the implementation of a least squares estimation of varactor capacitance values across a wafer for reasons of characterizing thin-film ferroelectric Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3, barium strontium titanate (BST). The varactor design utilized for this characterization as well as an equivalent schematic representation of the device used will be presented. Comparisons between the estimated thin-film performance and those of previously presented results will also be discussed.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125873497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rectangular cavity high harmonic maser amplifier","authors":"A. Ferendeci, R. Ewing","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531032","url":null,"abstract":"A maser amplifier operating at the higher harmonics of the cyclotron frequency is presented. Detailed study of the performance has already been done incorporating an axially slotted rectangular waveguide and the study is now concentrated on the detailed experimental construction of the unit. The present harmonic maser also known as a gyrotron will be initially experimentally demonstrated and verified at the X-band frequencies. The goal is using the experience gained from the lower frequency operation is to design, construct and demonstrate a rectangular high harmonic maser amplifier at the W-band frequencies.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127084465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-performance switching QFT control for large radio telescopes with saturation constraints","authors":"M. Garcia‐Sanz, T. Ranka, B. C. Joshi","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531034","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel, switching quantitative-feedback-theory (QFT) control system design methodology with a nonlinear model-based internal loop, and applies it to control a large radio telescope with saturation constraints. The dynamics of servo-systems of large radio telescopes typically vary according to azimuth and elevation angles, temperature, friction, speed and acceleration, leading to nonlinearities and plant parameter uncertainty. The new controller design methodology combines robust QFT techniques with nonlinear switching strategies and a nonlinear model-based inner loop, going beyond the classical linear limitations of conventional controllers. As shown in the paper, high performance for robust reference tracking and robust disturbance rejection is achieved, even under saturation constraints in the actuators. The controller performance is demonstrated by using realistic/simplified rigid body model of an existing extra-large radio telescope.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116930169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information fusion reliability analysis for component survivability","authors":"Erik Blasch, Li Bai, Genshe Chen","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531057","url":null,"abstract":"For many operational equipment systems, both reliability and survivability are measures of effectiveness over the performance of the individual mechanical and electrical parts. Many equipment parts can be modeled individually for their operational reliability performance due to physical constraints. Reliability has traditionally been assessed from physical attacks that result in failures; however, in real-world analysis, there are cases of non-physical attacks. A survivability analysis is an aggregate of the system-level operational sustainability over the reliability of all the components. With the information age, many equipment parts are “intelligent” that include sophisticated reasoning methods that are subject to non-physical cyber attacks. Developing a model that incorporates both the physical and non-physical attacks for reliability and survivability is important for determining system-level effectiveness. For sustained operations, we need to incorporate information fusion over physical and non-physical (e.g. cyber attacks) failures to determine a system's reliability and survivability. In this paper, we develop a method of fusing reliability estimates in both continuous (component model) and discrete analysis (component attack model) for a component survivability analysis.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133876829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A trustworthiness evaluation framework for distributed networks","authors":"S. Hall, W. McQuay, K. Littlejohn","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531028","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines the utility of Markov switching models in assessing trust and trustworthiness of a heterogeneous network, e.g. distributed sensor networks. As an unsupervised machine learning method, hidden Markov models (HMM) is independent of the assumptions commonly used in modeling trust in complex systems. A relevant time series that switches regimes from trusted to untrusted periods of times is simulated to illustrate the theory of HMM and its effectiveness in Trust modeling. In this paper, we have employed HMM to estimate the parameters of a unified trust model that could make continual determinations of the trustworthiness of the data collected in any application environment. The results indicate that this method could effectively accommodate the desired features of our specified trust model despite various noises and uncertainties in the input signal. This study, by defining a new metric of trustworthiness and using HMM, provides an improvement over past studies in terms of computation costs, accuracy of estimation and forecasting, less a priori assumptions, and system agnosticism.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"83 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132659939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RF sensing research at AFRL sensors directorate outdoor radar range","authors":"G. Scalzi","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531008","url":null,"abstract":"Presents the collection of slides covering the following topics: RF sensing complexity; AFRL sensor directorate outdoor radar range; radar antenna; and air force system.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"15 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132285764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultra-low power read-out integrated circuit design","authors":"Jing Chen, G. Lee, S. Ren","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531045","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an ultra-low power, small size CMOS read-out-integrated-circuit (ROIC) is presented. This ROIC can interface wide dynamic range signal up to six orders (100pA-6mA) from deployable sensors, such as biomedical sensors, chemical sensors etc. A high performance automatic gain control (AGC) trans-impedance amplifier (TIA), is included in this ROIC. A novel technology of sub-threshold technique is applied in this design, which can save up to 96% (from 25.2mW to 0.89mW) power consumption comparing to the circuit operating in super-threshold. The proposed circuit also has the capability to output digital signals that can be transmitted wirelessly to the data center for further signal processing.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126241315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doorway identification and classification using software-defined UWB OFDM radar","authors":"B. Jameson, Y. Morton, D. Garmatyuk, R. Ewing","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531063","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the implementation of a set of functions that will allow a software-defined ultra-wideband (UWB) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system to perform short-range indoor navigation. Specifically, we aim to illustrate the effectiveness of the software-defined radar system (SDRS) at identifying the presence of targets and doorways. Simulation results have been generated to demonstrate the levels of precision that are possible in identifying the location and width of doors from the enclosed indoor environment. These results are augmented with experimental results that form the back-end of an experimental implementation.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114853714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phased array receiver filtering and demonstration of digital beamforming on measured wideband data","authors":"D. Scarpone, J. Stringer, G. Akers","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531041","url":null,"abstract":"The MCWESS array is a 256-element, 16-channel phased array receiver which was recently built for research purposes in the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate. Current research at AFIT includes signal processing techniques for adaptive wideband digital beamforming. To support the research, with the help of engineers at AFRL, wideband data was collected using the MCWESS array. The signals collected were received from three different, spatially separated, bandlimited, thermal noise sources. The noise sources have the wide bandwidth desired to support wideband digital beamforming (DBF) research. When the resulting data from the receiver did not correlate with the transmitted noise signal as expected, a closer examination of the set hardware processing done on the signal revealed the signal's true nature. This paper outlines the systematic process followed to determine the actual content of the data, shows that direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is possible when using wideband beamforming techniques even on only a partial signal spectrum, and demonstrates wideband beamforming on measured data using a time reversal beamforming algorithm developed by AFRL.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121418915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abduction's role in reverse engineering software","authors":"kirk. weigand, kirk. weigand, Ronald Hartung","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531029","url":null,"abstract":"As software has become an integral part of most systems, so too have cyber threats become an expected attack vector. This has made the task of reverse engineering software an increasingly necessary and critical skill. Software systems are regarded as the most complex of human designed technologies. Software can be difficult to understand when the source code is provided, but a reverse engineer is restricted to machine code and often intentionally obscured machine code. This makes reverse engineering an extreme technical challenge. This work examines the reverse engineer's cognitive task as abductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning has received significant theoretical attention in the last decade resulting in a broader account of abduction types and methods. Abduction, as the only generative means of inference is essential to hard diagnostic tasks and scientific exploration that require non-deductive and non-inductive hypothesis generation. In particular, we explore manipulative abduction and meta-diagrammatic abduction employed by a reverse engineer to counter falsification of a hypotheses and surprise. With this basis, we are studying the work of reverse engineering with the dual goals of understanding the task and looking at ways AI systems can be constructed to augment reverse engineering. Process philosophy principles of panexperientialism and consciousness are used to form a critique of current AI approaches and some tenants of a novel abductive AI framework are justified.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"345 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122838187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}