http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/theses.html
Don Brutzman,
831.656.2149 work, 831.656.3679 fax,
brutzman@nps.navy.mil
Code UW/Br, Root 200,
Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey California 93943-5000 USA
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI):
Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
- Underwater Virtual World and in-water experimental robot testing
- Three-layer robot software architecture similar to ship's watch party
- The "fourth layer:" human specification of robot missions with expert assistance
- Sonar modeling and visualization using VRML and Recursive Ray Acoustics
(RRA) algorithm
- Sonar classification using expert system in real time
- Hydrodynamics modeling: duplicating complex ship and AUV response in
real time
Networking: connecting everyone to everything
- Information Infrastructure Research Group (IIRG):
Internetworking the Navy
- virtual reality transfer protocol (vrtp) & Cyberspace Backbone (CBone)
- Multicast Backbone: audio and video over the Internet
- Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and entity behavior dial-a-protocol
- Acoustic local-area networks (ALANs), Internet
Protocol over Sea Water (IP/SW) and internetworking SOSUS
- Connecting regional schools to the Internet: I3LA
- ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) high-performance networking
- Large-scale Digital Library for the Navy
Internetworked Interactive 3D Graphics & Large-Scale Virtual Worlds
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML): building dynamic worlds
- Realistic physics using multicast/Java attached to any entity
- 3D real-time sonar visualization
- Scaling up without bound to include Navy ships, aircraft, submarines,
people - the real world
- Monterey Bay virtual world: terrain, sound speed and
sonar, oceanographic datasets, archived multimedia,
distributed servers
- Streamed MBone audio/video extensions to virtual worlds
- Building multiple walk-in virtual reality rooms (CAVEs) linked by ATM
My objectives with you
- do "real world" work of value to your career
- provide financial support for conference attendance
- you publish a paper as part of your thesis
- fully document your results with 3D graphics, video, HTML
- your signature is first, so we find a topic area that matches
what you want. Short projects are a good way to start.
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Thesis Research Projects Home Page: Don Brutzman
(brutzman@nps.navy.mil)
(18 March 99)
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