Abstract

BAE SYSTEMS Communication, Navigation, Identification, and Reconnaissance is designing and integrating the ground platform data links for the Army’s Future Combat System (FCS) – a system that will use JTRS radios and directional antennas. A key performance parameter is that of Wideband Communication-on-the-Move while traversing rough, off-road terrain at moderate speed. A wideband link necessitates the use of a high-gain, narrow-beam antenna that must track to within a fraction of the antenna beamwidth. This talk will describe the design, simulation, rapid prototyping, integration, and test of the control system used to point and stabilize the antenna.

Biography

David Haessig is a Senior Member Technical Staff at BAE SYSTEMS, Wayne NJ.   Currently he manages their development of on-the-move antenna controls and is involved in design of next generation embedded systems for wireless communication.   Dr. Haessig has recently also worked at Lucent Technologies coordinating a team effort that implemented the physical and MAC layers of the UMTS standard HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), a 3G multi-access wireless system implemented over a 4x4 antenna arrangement using the BLAST methodology (Bell Labs Layered Space Time coding).   For this work he and others were awarded the Bell Laboratories President’s Gold Award in 2002.   He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has worked as an Adjunct Professor at NJIT and Fairleigh Dickinson University.   He holds 4 patents in the area of inertial stabilization and has over 15 professional publications.

For Further information: Contact Professor Timothy Chang (973)596-3519, changtn@njit.edu.