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Conferences

PSCR 2020_ Public Safety ICAM Critical Topics and New NIST Documents

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

William J. Fisher

Overview of new Publics Safety ICAM NIST Documents.

PSCR 2020_Pecha Kucha Portfolio Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

John Beltz, Roger Blalock, Donald Bradshaw, John S. Garofolo, Joe Grasso, Scott Ledgerwood, Brianna Vendetti

The PSCR Research Portfolio Leaders provide overview presentations of the projects housed within their portfolios, using just 20 slides that showcase each for...

PSCR 2020_ Connecting the First Responder's Environment

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Donald L. Harriss

In most first responder events, a building or structure is involved with some degree of importance. Knowledge of building structures and current building...

PSCR 2020_Expanding the SIM Card Use Prize Challenge Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Michael J. Bartock, Conor Patrick, Matt Lourie, Shane Weeden

PSCR and a few partnering entities finished a recent PSCR sponsored prize challenge, the Expanding the SIM Card Use for Public Safety. The challenge requested...

PSCR 2020_Social Media Incident Streams

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff

The ubiquity of mobile internet-enabled devices combined with wide-spread social media use during emergencies is posing new challenges for response personnel...

PSCR 2020_ LMR Data Collection for Traffic Modeling

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher D. Dennis, Yishen Sun

The Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Data Collection Project creates a database of Public Safety (PS) LMR usage for traffic/call modeling. The generated models are used...

PSCR 2020_Mission Critical Voice Portfolio Strategy

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Donald A. Bradshaw

An overview of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division 2020 Mission Critical Voice (MCV) portfolio. This includes a cohesive view of the...

PSCR 2020: What We Learned by Participating in a PSCR Challenge

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah L. Hughes, Todd Heinl, Felix Desourdy, Sean Hackett, Ryan Fields-Spack

This NIST publication consists of two past judges and two innovators sharing from their perspective what they learned about innovating for public safety through...

PSCR 2020_7000+ First Responders Have More to Say: Nationwide Usability Survey Results at Your Fingertips

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Yee-Yin Choong, Shanee T. Dawkins

Building on our high-level survey overview in the 2019 Stakeholders Meeting, we now present new analyses and a deeper dive into findings from the NIST...

PSCR 2020_Multicast and Unicast in Serving Public Safety Traffic

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Chunmei Liu

Given a significant amount of group traffic in public safety incidents, multicast has the potential to outperform unicast in terms of precious spectrum savings...

PSCR 2020_Non-ISSI LMR to LTE MCPTT

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher J. Walton, Chic J. O'Dell

This presentation explores a low-cost method to bridge analog public safety Land mobile radio (LMR) systems into a standards based Long Term Evolution (LTE)...

PSCR 2020_Speech Analytics for Public Safety

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Frederick R. Byers

Evolving applications for public safety communications sometimes rely on speech analytic technologies. These include hands-free voice interface and situational...

PSCR 2020_For Technology Innovators, What Should You Know About Public Safety Agencies' Procurement Process?

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, Jessica Ballew, Jim McMillan

For Technology Innovators, What Should You Know About Public Safety Agencies' Procurement Process? This panel will explore insights on the Public Safety...

PSCR 2020_ASAPS Challenge Program: Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, John S. Garofolo

Real-time Multimodal Analytic Technology to Save Lives, Property, and Infrastructure Where Every Second Counts!

PSCR 2020_First Responder IoT Environments: Examining Data Foundations

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Alison M. Kahn

As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become more prevalent in society, there is still a large technology gap existing in the public safety field. This...

PSCR 2020_Resilient Communication Network Platform

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel L. Ray, Hien V. Nguyen

PSCR has been researching deployable communications systems for first responders since 2015. In this session, PSCR presents the latest addition to our research...

PSCR 2020_Immersive Firearm Ballistics Simulation in Virtual Reality

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher E. Johnson

Virtual Reality Developer Chris Johnson conducts a deep dive analysis into the considerations and challenges of creating an immersive virtual reality AR-15...

Detecting and Understanding Sodium Movement in Solar Panel Encapsulant Polymers

October 28, 2020

Author(s)

Stephanie Moffitt

Large, utility-scale solar farms currently represent the most cost-efficient form of solar panel installation. However, photovoltaic (PV) panels in large arrays...

Combinatorial Methods for Explainable AI

October 24, 2020

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei, Dimitris Simos

This paper introduces an approach to producing explanations or justifications of decisions made by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) systems...

Curved-Edge Displacement Sensor for Spindle Dynamic Identification

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Seungjoo Lee, Jungsub Kim, ChaBum Lee, Gregory Vogl

Development of a New Standard for the Performance Evaluation of Single Axis Linear Positioning Systems

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Ronnie Fesperman, Steve Ludwick, Richard Klopp, Axel Grabowski, Justin Lebel, Jimmie Miller, Nathan Brown, Eric Belski, Nicholas Duncan, C W. Hennessey

Multipath Parameter Extraction and Correction from Frequency Dependent Amplitude Fading

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

Multipath interference can be a challenging problem in the determination of accurate outdoor and indoor localization. There are methods that exist to mitigate...

FPGA-based Low-Latency Digital Servo for Optical Physics Experiments

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Marco Pomponio, Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

We propose a general-purpose dual-channel field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based digital servo with a minimum latency around 200 ns. This servo implements a...

Application of ASCE 41 to a two-story CFS building

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew Speicher, Zhidong Zhang, Benjamin W. Schafer

The objective of this paper is to summarize the evaluation results from applying the updated performance-based seismic design provisions: ASCE 41-17, on a cold...

PSCR 2020_ Prototyping 3D User Interfaces for First Responders

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Katelynn A. Kapalo

Due to rapid advances in technology, first responders will eventually have access to building information, sensor data, and fire protection system data in real...

International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding

October 21, 2020

Author(s)

Keith Curtis, George Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian Soboroff

This is the introduction paper to the International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding. In recent years, a growing trend towards working on understanding...

Human-Supervised Semi-Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Safely and Efficiently Executing Machine Tending Tasks

October 16, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah Al-Hussaini, Shantanu Thakar, Hyojeong Kim, Pradeep Rajendran, Brual C. Shah, Alec Kanyuck, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

Mobile manipulators can be used for machine tending and material handling tasks in small volume manufacturing applications. These applications usually have semi...

FPGA Implementation of a Low Latency and High SFDR Direct Digital Synthesizer for Resource-Efficient Quantum-Enhanced Communication

October 15, 2020

Author(s)

FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Ivan Burenkov, Hasan Urgurdag, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov

In most modulation schemes for a telecommunication system, a fast and efficient sinusoidal signal generator is needed. Here we report on an FPGA implementation...

Characterization of a Josephson Junction Comb Generator

October 13, 2020

Author(s)

Akim Babenko, Alirio De Jesus Soares Boaventura, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Justus Brevik, Anna Fox, Dylan Williams, Zoya Popovic, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

We present a new type of microwave frequency combs with a potentially calculable pulse shape. The device is an array of 1500 Josephson junctions (JJs) connected...

Storing and retrieving wavefronts with resistive temporal memory

October 10, 2020

Author(s)

Advait Madhavan, Mark D. Stiles

We extend the reach of temporal computing schemes by developing a memory for multi-channel temporal patterns or "wavefronts." This temporal memory re-purposes...

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