Schedule for ThalesSE Competition Project

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Thales Scottish Technology Prize
Recognising the wealth of technological
innovation and creativity across academia in
Scotland
www.scottishtechnologyprize.com
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Tradition

• Optronics Systems forLand, Sea Air
• Reconnaissance
• Surveillance
• Situational Awareness
• Protection
• 120 years heritage

3
Changing Requirements

• Urban Operations
• Asymmetric Warfare
• Peacekeeping
• Hearts Minds
• NEW CHALLENGES, NEW PRODUCTS

4
Local Situational Awareness
Challenge is to capture maximum awareness on a
limited amount of sensors with a limited amount
of processing and all presented on a small screen.
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Lasers IR Cameras

• Product Portfolio
• Catherine MP
• Megapixel LWIR Camera
• Sophie UF
• Target Locator with thermal imager, direct view
  optics, laser range-finder, GPS, digital compass
• Laser Range-Finders
• Laser Target Designators
• Data Image Processing
• Calibration Control
• Range calculation
• Image enhancement

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From Our Archives
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Naval Products - Submarine Visual Systems

• Product Portfolio
• Traditional hull penetrating Periscopes
• Optronic Masts
• All Digital Periscopes
• Data Image Processing
• Image stabilisation
• Image stitching
• Display

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AFV Systems

• Product Portfolio
• Vehicle Sights
• Periscopic, elevated, panoramic
• Force Protection
• Situational Awareness
• Data Image Processing
• Image stabilisation
• Navigation geo-location
• With and without GPS
• Automatic target detection
• Switching and routing
• Display

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Challenges - Control Navigation

• Stabilisation
• Low-cost long-range LoS stabilisation
• Rough terrain disturbance
• Resistant to shocks
• High-accuracy for on-the-move
• Navigation
• Low-cost
• Without satellite system
• Direction finding
• Better than magnetic compass

GPS
Commanders Station
Turret Gun Position Sensors
Drivers Display
Automotive Interface Data
Route Data
Inertial Navigation System
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Air Recce Exploitation Overview

• Product Portfolio
• Wide Field-of-View Sensors
• Reconnaissance Pods
• Ground Stations
• Data Image Processing
• Image construction
• Compression, transmissionand de-compression
• Imagery On Demand
• Display of very large images
• Image analysis

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Challenges - Network-Enabled Capability

• Managing the data
• Right data, right place
• Avoiding the deluge
• Managing the network
• Bandwidth
• Quality of Service

1280 x 1024 pixels 14 bit data 25Hz 459Mbit/sec
Catherine MPTM
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Air DAS Overview

• Product Portfolio
• Infra-Red Search and Track
• Hostile Fire Indicators
• Missile Approach Warner Systems
• Counter Measure Dispensing Systems
• Data Image Processing
• Detect, track, classify
• Moving targets
• Moving platform
• High clutter environment
• Geo-location
• Self location
• Target location
• Sensor and data fusion

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Challenges - (Semi-)Autonomous Operation

• Scene understanding
• Target detection, tracking and classification
• False alarm rejection
• Context
• Situational awareness
• Geo-location
• Practicalities
• Platform movement and vibration
• Very wide fields of regard
• Very high data rates
• Multiple sensors
• Multiple sensor modalities
• Changing environmental conditions
• High clutter levels
• Meta-data
• Incomplete information

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Challenges - Fusion

• Sensor Fusion
• Co-located sensors (multi-modal)
• Sensors separated in space and/or in time
• 3-D imaging
• Change detection
• Practicalities
• Time-stamped
• Geo-located
• Data Information Fusion
• Data mining
• Association

Thermal Image
Fused Image
TV Image
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Challenges - The Man in the Loop

• How do we reduce the workload?
• How do we help with decision making?
• How do we display the information?
• 360 field of view, multiple sensors, 3-D
  imagery, maps, friend-or-foe
• Limited space
• Limited time
• How do we use the brain?
• Right data, right format, right time
• What do other industries and products do?

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Challenges - Engineering

• Real-time operation
• Complexity
• Efficiency
• Data reduction
• Parallelism

• Size, weight power consumption
• Portability
• Endurance
• Heat dissipation
• Battery life

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Improving Sensors Systems
FUNCTIONALITY
Collecting the best data for the task
CONNECTIVITY
Using all of the resources
INTELLIGENCE
Getting information from the data
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Taking part in the TSTPStephen McGeochResearch
Technology Manager
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Competition Basics

• Entries only through the website
  www.scottishtechnologyprize.com
• Read the Guidelines and the Rules
• Paste or type text in the boxes - Keep to the
  word limits
• Attach diagrams - No additional text
• Thales has no rights to your Intellectual
  Property
• You can submit multiple entries
• The prize is a prize
• Its not funding for your idea
• Questions will be taken and answeredvia the
  website
• Please contact us regarding visitsto your
  institution
• Closing date for entries
• November 20th 2009
• Prize-giving event
• December 10th 2009
• Finalists will be notified
• You must attend or be represented

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Your Entry

• NAME, AFFILIATION and CONTACT DETAILS
• CONCEPT (?100 words)
• Whats your idea?
• Why is it a good one?
• TECHNOLOGY (?500 words)
• How would it work?
• Do the sums add up?
• Why is it better than existingtechnology?
• PLAN (?100 words)
• How would we get it from the labto the market?
• PhD? EngD? Joint project?KTP? Spin-out
  company?
• This section will usually be very short.
• DIAGRAMS
• Worth a thousand words.

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Judging

• Panel of senior Thales representatives
• 4 Judging Criteria
• RELEVANCE to Thales business
• INNOVATION
• TECHNICAL QUALITY of the entry
• POTENTIAL for transitionto a product
• The decision of the Judges is final.