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Technology, application, and metrology of directed energy weapons
The discussion will focus on impediments, both technical, social, and otherwise, that need to be overcome for directed energy weapons to become more broadly deployed and used than they are currently. The ability to accurately measure the performance of these systems will also be considered.
ORGANIZED BY
Nicholas Paulter
Nicholas Paulter
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD USA
N. Paulter is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD USA. He develops and oversees metrology programs related to a variety of threat-detection and trauma-mitigation technologies. He is an IEEE Fellow.
AGENDA
Luca Morino, MBDA, LAMBDA Laboratories
Artificial intelligence techniques for damage assessment in RF DEW systems
In today's context of an ever-increasing number of asymmetric threats carried by agents of different natures, not only in the military but also in civil contexts (such as events and concerts), the use of new non-lethal protection systems is a must. Radio frequency (RF)-based systems are one of the ideal solutions to handle these new types of attack and enable area protection even in the presence of multiple objects such as swarms of drones. In this context, of fundamental importance becomes the ability, downstream of threat identification and tracking, to carry out an assessment of the damage inflicted, since RF-type systems by their very nature do not allow for immediate evidence of this. Artificial intelligence can help in this scenario by providing techniques to predict the trajectory and behaviour (behavioural analysis) of objects. The results of research carried out to reconstruct the three-dimensional trajectories of drones, also using generative intelligence, from the analysis of videos, both in the visible and infrared range, and in interpreting these trajectories to reconstruct the behaviour of detected threats in order to understand whether or not they have been damaged, will be shown.
