ECE researchers discuss echoic flow in IET Electronics Letters

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Echoic flow, or the time to collision between a sensor and a detected object, could have future applications in a variety of areas, from autonomous navigation, to aircraft landing aids, to prosthetics to enable blind people.

Chris Baker, Ohio Research Scholar in Integrated Sensor Systems and Endowed Professor, electrical and computer engineering; and Graeme Smith, senior research associate, were profiled in the August 2012 issue of IET Electronics Letters about their work in echoic flow and the research behind their paper, “Echoic Flow for Radar and Sonar,” which was published in the same issue.

Baker and Smith collaborate in the “the emerging area of cognitive radar sensing, which at its core involves the implementation of the perception-action cycle in echolocation sensors.” They also conduct research relating to “spectral re-use for sensing (passive bistatic radar) and in the extraction of information from echoes for applications involving scene perception and object recognition for all classes of radar system.”