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A Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The Surveillance Systems group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory specializes in modern air traffic control radars and ground and airborne collision avoidance systems. The group develops integrated sensing and decision support systems that enable safe and efficient air and surface transportation.

An increasingly important area of work for us is unmanned aircraft systems. The systems we work on help prevent aircraft accidents and ensure safe organization of air traffic. With technical expertise in real-time software architecture, radio-frequency and digital hardware design, advanced supercomputing-enabled modeling and simulation, machine learning, and system integration, our research teams take new ideas for solving problems and develop them into working prototypes. We are currently working on detect and avoid systems for both unmanned aircraft systems and new surveillance systems for smaller airports. We are also developing analytical methods to help automated vehicles integrate safely and efficiently into the current surface transportation system.

Ngaire Underhill
Data Scientist in the Surveillance Systems group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research projects

Foldit
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
Engineering the Human Microbiome
Computing Social Capital
Computers Diagnosing Disease
A Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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Outreach & Education Projects

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