Research Laboratories
Digital Rights And Knowledge Engineering
(DRAKE)
The Digital Rights and Knowledge Engineering research group works with intelligent agents, trust in semantic social networks, digital rights management, agent-based negotiation, and middleware and is lead by Professor Greg Heileman.
High-Speed Networking Laboratory
The UNM High-Speed Networking Laboratory was established in 2007 to focus on the research and design of optical
and opto-electronic cyber-infrastruture networks. The key project areas of interest include performance evaluation
and optimization of metro/core DWDM networks, multi-domain/multi-layer networks, optical access networks, virtual
private networks, and Carrier Ethernet services.
Homunculus Research Laboratory
The Homunculus Project at the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC)
focuses on the development of virtual reality and visualization technology
to help scientists and engineers to better understand their computer software
systems and data. This project is a high performance computing (HPC),
multi-dimensional virtual laboratory for construction, simulation, evaluation,
perception, and comprehension of complex software systems and simulations.
Director: Thomas Preston Caudell
Antenna Analysis and Design
3-D Helical THz Antennas
Directly on Semiconductor Substrates
The fabrication of 3-D helical antennas, designed for
the low THz frequency range, will allow for the efficient
transmission and reception of circularly polarized radiation.
Design of Smart Antennas Using
Neural Networks
The first problem addressed in this project
is the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of mobile
users that are sending their messages to a phased array
antenna.
FDTD Analysis of Phased Array
Antennas
This work presents a new application of the Finite Difference
Time Domain (FDTD) method to the generalized analysis of phased
array antennas.
Design of a Low-Loss Series-Fed
Microstrip Array Antenna
This project involves the design and analysis of a series-fed,
low-loss, inverted microstrip array antenna, operating at
1.413 GHz.
The image and video Processing and Communications Laboratory (ivPCL)
Lead by professor Marios Pattichis ivPCL
conducts research in Digital Image and Video Models, Medical Image and Video Processing, Radar Image Processing, SIMD and Reconfigurable Computer Architecture Applications.
Intelligent Distributed Multi-Agent Robotic Systems Research Lab
Some goals of the IDMARS Laboratory mission are:
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Development of the approach to combining intelligent systems and soft
computing paradigms in a software framework to enable biologically-inspired
coordinated robotic group behavior.
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Design of architecture to support hierarchical command and reporting
structure combined with behavior-based local control and its implementation
in the software framework.
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Development of a methodology to measure the success of a robotic
organization in a mission and to address the tradeoffs between the amount of
intelligence off-loaded in the centralized coordinator and the communication
bandwidth required to send the requisite status updates to it as part of the
overall budget.
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Extension of the architecture with a hierarchical, modular control
structure based on discrete event simulation modeling principles to enable
on-line reprogrammability.
Performance of lab demonstrations that will make clear how the software
scales both downward to ETO developed platform technologies driven by severe
form factor constraints
There are three research groups working under IDMARS:
1) R & D (Research and Development) Group:
- IDMARS Research Project ( Sensing, Sensory Fusion, Wireless Communication,
Control, Computation, Vision Projects )
- Testing, Diagnostic and Maintenance
- Parts and Equipment Inventory
- Test Instruments and Computer Systems Administration
- IDMARS Terrain Development and Implementation
- Nano-technology
- A-Life and Intelligent Systems
2) E & O (Education and Outreach) Group:
- LOBOT Jr. Project
- Senior Design Projects
- K-12 Outreach Project ( Curriculum, Teacher Training, Robo-competitions)
3) I & D (Information Dissemination and Documentation) Group:
- IDMARS Website Development and Maintenance
- Internal Reports Documentation
- IDMARS Laboratory Scheduling and Maintenance
- IDMARS Technical Reports , photo and video Archive
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Contact Nader Vadiee at 277-1200,
or manimar@unm.edu for more info on IDMARS!
The Medical Image Analysis Lab
Focused on developing and optimizing methods and software for quantitative analysis of structure and function in medical images with particular focus on the study of psychiatric illness.
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MURI: Compact, Portable, Pulsed Power
MURI
(Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) research program.
This MURI is managed by Dr. Robert Barker of AFOSR, and follows several
other related MURI programs that he manages. The MURI program comprises
two consortia, the University of New Mexico consortium includes Old
Dominion University and the University of Nevada-Reno and is led by
Professor Edl Schamiloglu. The University of Southern California consortium
includes the University of Missouri-Columbia and Texas Tech University
and is led by Professor Martin Gundersen.
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Networked Multimedia and Parallel Computing
Lab
Led by professors Min-You Wu and Wei Wennie Shu, this lab
focuses on research in Multimedia Servers and Parallel Computing.
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Plasma & Fusion Sciences Laboratory
Research at the P&FSL
focuses on understanding "the 4th state of matter", plasmas. A plasma
is a hot (ten thousand to over one million degrees) ionized gas,
where electrons are separated from their atomic nuclei. Part of our
research is in fusion energy. The same energy that powers the sun is
a possible alternative energy source here on Earth. Other research
deals with natural plasmas, such as the Sun itself, Earth's
ionosphere, and galactic jets. For all this research, we make use of
laboratory experiments using the local plasma facility, the HelCat
device.
RAIV: The Robotics, Artificial Intelligence,
and Vision Laboratory
The mission of RAIV is to pursue fundamental advances in
the use of computer vision/robotics to solve open problems
in medicine, waste management, assistive and rehabilitative
robotics, and distributed intelligence.
RAIV projects include:
- Active Deformable Models, a.k.a. snakes: an energy minimization
technique for segmenting objects in digital imagery
- Shape Recovery for Endoscopic Surgery Simulation: a system
for surface shape recovery and modeling for an endoscopic
surgery simulator
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