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PRISM Updates

Follow the progress of the various PRISM teams as they develop the technology to measure the ice in the polar regions using bistatic and monostatic radars carried on semiautonomous ground rovers. Get a better understanding of the challenges the scientists face.

Team Overview

Radar Team

Robotics Team

Important Characteristics of PRISM Mobility Platform (rover)
Some Different Looks at PRISM Mobility Platforms
Important Characteristics of PRISM Rover Sensors
The Beginning of the Rover
Some Sensors
Testing the Rover
Bob - The Testbed Mobile Robot
Testing the Rover Under Remote Control (May, 2004)
Loading the Rover for Transport
New Rover arrives (Dec. 2004)
Testing Marvin II (Jan. 2005)
New Components for Marvin II (Jan. 2005)
Control Box and Testing (April, 2005)
Testing the Rover Video (No codec needed - 89mg) - (divx Codec needed - 18mg) (September, 2005)

Communications Team

2000 Summer Seminar

Dr. Ken Jezek - RadarSat Mapping of Antarctica

2004 Summer Seminar

Dr. David Braaten - Global Climate Change
Dr. Arvin Agah - Intelligence and Learning In Mobile Robots
Dr. Chris Allen - Principles of Radar: An Introduction
John Paden - Network Analyzer Operation
Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis - Multi-agent Systems
Sudha Sivashanmugam - PRISM Intelligent Systems

2005 Student Presentations

Joel Plummer - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Abdul Jabbar Mohammad - Multi-Link Iridium Satellite Data Communication System for Polar Research (download the ppt version)


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