IEEE Galveston Bay Section

Systems engineering of a spacecraft project requires execution of a series of subprojects to make it successful. The talk will describe the processes involved in each of the steps of a successful spacecraft project. The discussion will entail the configuration and design aspect of the spacecraft, focusing on the important factors involved. The methodology of subsystems’ assembly, their integration and testing will be looked into. How does the satellite thus assembled is characterized and cleared for the launch will be the final part to be discussed?Speaker(s): PUNEET, Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/276520

This presentation is an overview of micro and nanorobotics, based on the Cellular Robotics System, which is the basic concept of the emergence of intelligence in a multi-scale way from Cell Level to the Organizational Level, proposed more than 30 years ago. It consists of many elements of how the system can be structured from the individual to the group/society levels in analogy with the biological system. It covers a wide range of challenging topics: Then the presentation will focus on medical robots and bio cell manipulation and cell assembly and refer to applied areas for the future hybrid cyborg and bionic system to improve the quality of life of humans.Co-sponsored by: IMEKO/Technical Committee on Robotic Measurement (TC17)Speaker(s): Toshio, 9874 Sageaspen Ln, Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/277468

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), nearly 1 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity. Conventional grid electrification is a prohibitively high cost solution for many of these remote communities. Low cost electrification alternatives through isolated solar home systems are typically limited only to basic power provisions such as light and mobile phone charging for few hours a day along with fans in some cases. Reliable and ample access to electricity is one of the key indicators of the socio-economic status of any country as it contributes to better health, education, and employment opportunities. Therefore, in this talk, the presenter will evaluate viable options for beyond subsistence off-grid electrification to bring vulnerable offgrid communities out of poverty so that they are able to contribute significantly towards their socioeconomic status.Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/277544

Univac Defense Systems: From Codebreakers to Standard Military ComputersFrom WWII to 1970This webinar presents the history of Military computers from the very first electromechanical codebreaking machines of WWII through the first Tube machines of the 1940s and early 1950s to the transistor & early integrated circuit machines of the late 1950s & 1960s. We learn of the roots of Univac Defense Systems (now part of Lockheed Martin) as the leading military computer company and how those roots were driven by the Navy’s OP-20-G communications intelligence group responsible for breaking Japanese, German, and Italian codes in WWII before becoming the NSA during the cold war. We watch the development of the Naval Tactical Data System, its computers, and how they went on to serve Navy, Marines, Air Force, NASA, and FAA.Speaker(s): David, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/276424

Data statistics and computational analysis are the subsets of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Data analytics is a process of analyzing, cleaning, transforming, and modeling the data to harness useful information. Here, detailed information of data analytics of RES applications (i.e., forecasting, prediction, and condition monitoring), data and its relation, data pre-processing, feature extraction, feature selection, and different application areas are discussed. A comprehensive list of software, dataset’s digital library are included.Houston, Texas, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/277640