1. Artis, LLC
Overview
7 September 2009
Artis, LLC Keith Brendley
11410 Isaac Newton Square North President
Suite 110
Reston, VA 20190
tel: 703-964-0420
fax: 703-964-0423
brendleyk@artisllc.com
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2. Artis, LLC Overview
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Overview
• Established 1999
• 36 employees in Herndon, VA and SLC, UT sites
Core capabilities
• Sensor systems development
• Real-time embedded systems
• Software development
• Cyber security
• Systems analysis
• M&S
Example systems development activities
• Very low power imaging systems and processing algorithms
• Active Protection Systems (APS)
• Energy efficiency and smart grid systems analysis
• GPS tracking and motion devices
• Sensor network systems analysis
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3. Our customers
Defense and other government
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• U.S. Army Night Vision Electronics and Sensors Division
• U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Office of Naval Research
• Department of Energy
• Department of Transportation
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Industry and academia
• EOIR
• Titan Corporation
• University of Arkansas
• University of Illinois
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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4. Where we are
Salt Lake
City East
Herndon
Salt Lake
City West
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5. Iron Curtain: Active protection system for light
vehicles
System Attributes
Robust kill mechanism –addresses many types
of threats, very difficult to countermeasure
Independent sensors for extremely low FAR +
resistant to countermeasures
Solid state – no moving parts Live
Modularized – no single point of failure RPG Countermeasure
Multi-hit kills RPG inches
Low collateral damage from vehicle side
Low cost
Lightweight
2. Distributed
optical sensor 1. Radar SHOT 1
SHOT 3
SHOT 4 SHOT 2
3. Countermunition
Uparmored HMMWV with light
3/8” mild steel armor
unharmed after 4 live fire shots
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6. Tripline radically increases range and
effectiveness of low-power personnel sensors
Challenge:
Detect and classify personnel at long range with
low-power system
• Low power < 10 mA
STATUS QUO
• Long range > 150 m
• Low FAR < 1%
• High Pd > 90%
Tripline Description:
Very short range (30m max)
dismounted detection such as • Sensor image subsampled using low power
seismic sensors and physical techniques
tripwires with very high FAR • Processing removes all stationary and pseudo-
motion background elements (e.g. waving tree
branches and scintillation)
• Objects resampled and classified using rapid
parallel processing
• Objects classified as human or other item of Low-power, long-range
interest are imaged using full FPA personnel sensor for border
security and persistent
surveillance
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7. MOCOVE motion sickness control device
People experience motion No-MOCOVE
effects on moving With-MOCOVE
platforms such as ships,
land vehicles and aircraft
Display systems magnify
motion effects on a
moving platform
Source: Stripling, R., Cohn, J., Muth, E., Balaban, C., Hillson, R., Brendley, K., “Control strategies for
reducing motion sickness,” Proceedingsefficacy in reducing motion effects in
MOCOVE has shown of Society for Neuroscience, 2003, New Orleans.
Subjects exposed to an evocative motion environment can exhibit human subject experiments conducted at NRL and Brandeis
behaviors equivalent to those at DUI blood alcohol levels. University
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8. Smartmat for classifying, counting and
tracking pedestrians
Approach: Massive numbers of low-power sensors controlled by smart
network
Design: Cascading microcontrollers with processing at each step to
reduce bandwidth
Application: Counting pedestrians and other non-motorized travel
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9. Motionstick
Real-time GPS and motion data
recorder
Connection to many different types of
GPS chipsets
Easily programmable using PC
“wizard”
Powered off USB or batteries
Real-time linkage to Pathways GIS and
data graphing package
Used by:
• DOT/FRA for train motion data
recording and analysis
• U.S. Army for testing different GPS
chipset accuracies for robotic
applications
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10. AccuSpin – Instrumentation accessory for
Spinner bikes
Market
Product: Accessory for
instrumenting popular 20,000 sports clubs in U.S. alone
Spinner exercycles with active spinning classes
Purpose: Enables Hundreds of thousands Spinner
spinning groups to race bikes
and record performance
data
Advantages: Uses
existing (very popular)
bike stock, low cost, easy
installation, group and
individual experience
Competition Program Status
Many special-
purpose bikes
Prototype
• Computrainer
developed
• Revmaster
• Pilot Cadence Meter
Tested at SLC JCC
Currently no
(spinner class)
accessory available
to upgrade standard
spinning bike to Patent filed
instrumented bike
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11. Pathways modeling and simulation
programming language
High-level language for building custom Extremely large Agent Based Model
number of objects
simulations
modeled (in this case,
Raster-based GIS with vector overlay entire city of
data Champaign-Urbana)
Compatible with many different data Examine interactions
between objects and
formats
environment
Database of entire world (most high- American College of
detail data of U.S.) Sports Medicine
Large library of mapping/analysis articles to appear
functions Parallel processing
Sensor/communications Comsim
SBInet networking model
Tower placement Three modes
analysis • Monte Carlo
All routes analysis • Genetic algorithm
All destinations • Mission planning
analysis module
Tower Line-of-Sight LOS and NLOS sensors
analysis Communications model
Genetic algorithm • Signal propagation
placement • Terrain and foliage
• Network/routing
Threat path analysis
• Protocol definitions
Parallel processing
Parallel processing
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