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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

Evolution of Viral Infectious Disease
Evaluating Health Benefits of Stricter US Air Quality Standards
Developing Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
Analyzing the Gut Microbiome
Network Attached FPGAs in the OCT
Supporting Data-intensive Social Science
Tornado Path Detection
Taming the Energy Appetite of AI Models
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