April 25, 2014
The Ignition Grants Fall 2013 Edition winners shared their accomplishments with demos, presentations, and Q&A in the Central Spark.
The principal investigators of the 10 top-voted ideas are listed below by ignition challenge:
Asymmetric Swarming Threats: Engagement
Autonomous Herding for Non-Lethal Area Denial in Uncertain Environments
Galen Mullins
Asymmetric Swarming Threats: Detect, Track, ID
Terrain-aided passive acoustic tracking of fast-attack craft
Reid McCargar
Global S&T Situational Awareness: Explore New Technology for Sponsors
Low-cost, flexible energy harvesters for unattended systems
Michael Jin
INS-Next: Atom Interferometry Gyroscopes for Flight Systems
Brandi Rollins
Global S&T Situational Awareness: Explore New Technology for APL Operations
Build a prototype cheap desktop distributed supercomputer
Dan Magorian
Critical Knowledge Sharing
Assessing Environmental Impacts on Sensor and System Performance
Thomas Hanley
Crash Courses on Android
Jamison Adcock
Arduino Course
Tara Echlin
APL Coursera
Jeffrey Boye
Practical Machine Learning in MATLAB
Christopher Ratto