Fuhr fed ex institute drone expo keynote 9apr16

Unmanned Aerial
Systems
Peter Fuhr, Ph.D.
April 9, 2016
,
Tech Advances –
On & Over the Horizon

Peter Fuhr
Ph: (865) 574-5206, E-mail: fuhrpl@ornl.gov FedEx Insitute Drone Expo 9APR16
Who are we?
ORNL is DOE’s Largest Science
and Energy Laboratory
 Nation’s largest
materials research
portfolio
 World’s most powerful
open scientific
computing facility
 $1.5B budget
 4,400 employees
 3,000 research
guests annually
 $750 million invested
in modernization
 Nation’s most diverse
energy portfolio
 Operating the world’s
most intense pulsed
neutron source
 Managing the billion-
dollar U.S. ITER project

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Focusing our energy R&D portfolio
on delivering systems-level solutions
Advanced manufacturing Vehicle technologies
Building technologies Integrated energy systems

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The National Center for Computational Sciences is one
of the world’s most powerful computing facilities
Peak performance 1.17 PF/s
Memory 147 TB
Disk bandwidth > 50 GB/s
Square feet 2,300
Power 3.5 MW
Peak performance 27 PF/s
Memory 710 TB
Disk bandwidth 240 GB/s
Square feet 5,000
Power 8.8 MW
Kraken
Gaea
Peak Performance 1.1 PF/s
Memory 240 TB
Disk Bandwidth 104 GB/s
Square feet 1,600
Power 2.2 MW
Titan
Data Storage
• Spider File System
• 10 PB capacity
• 240 GB/s bandwidth
• HPSS Archive
• 240 PB capacity
• 5 Tape libraries
Data Analytics
& Visualization
• LENS cluster
• Ewok cluster
• EVEREST facility
• uRiKA data appliance
Networks
• ESnet – 100 Gbps
• Internet2 – 10 Gbps
• XSEDEnet – 10 Gbps
• Private dark fibre

Who’s this guy talking?
My name is Peter
Lake Region Elec Co-op
(I started here)
Pelican Rapids, MN (doncha know!)
Reading meters
…a lot of using a shovel…

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Ph: (865) 574-5206, E-mail: fuhrpl@ornl.gov
I have over 4000 colleagues …
…doing some amazing stuff…

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Drones…

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Drones
…inexpensive sensors for fixed, mobile and aerial use
Measuring a *wide* variety of parameters for utilities
That are hyper cyber secure…
Entrance to Drone World at Consumer Electronics Show, Jan 2016

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Drones
Fry’s Electronics, Sunnyvale CA, Jan 18, 2016

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Drone comparison

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Drones
1917 Kettering-bug

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Drones…
Google Wings Program – Airspace use Proposal to FAA

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We’re flying these advanced
sensors (much more than just a camera)

Airborne Sensor Systems for Utility Monitoring
View from Above:
EPB Training Area,
Chattanooga TN
(image taken by UAS 2, height: 65m)
Ambient RF Environment
Fixed and Mobile IoT Sensors for Substation Monitoring
UAS 1 with Thermal and Ambient Environment Sensors
(height: 25m)
UAS 3 inspecting distribution transformers (height: 40m)
Thermal from UAS 1 displayed on Location Engine
View from Below:
EPB Training Area,
Chattanooga TN
EPB, Electric Utility servicing
Chattanooga TN. Urban, suburban, rural
distribution network, 175,000 customers.
1600 km2 service area.
www.epb.net
UAS sensors for Utility Needs, including:
Multi-l scanning
Chemicals (e.g., CO2, CH4)
Coronal discharge
Thermal imaging
Cell signal detection
Ambient environment
RF
Intrusion Detection
(and, of course) optical imaging

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Drones
What about here in
Tennessee?
Legalities…

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Drones

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Drones
Summary
As enacted, prohibits certain use of an unmanned aircraft to intentionally
capture an image over certain open-air events and firework displays; prohibits
use of unmanned aircraft over grounds of a correctional facility.

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Drones
Use @ ORNL?

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Drones
Personal
Use?

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Drones
…and
don’t
do
this…

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Fracking & Aerial Sensing
Chemical and Environmental Sensing
From Above
CH4, CO2, CO, H2
– and ambient conditions (T, P, rH, irr
Fracking pads near Midland, TX
(2015: 63,300 fracking pads in the U.S.)
UAS w/
Custom
Sensor
Modules
More info:
fuhrpl@ornl.gov
luskrm@ornl.gov
“The Battery” (chemical storage)
Pipes from nearby wells
Well prep & fracking
Fracking pad

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Nefarious payloads…
…the marketing FUD play…

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Drone Detection

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Drone Detection: Radio Emissions

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Drone Detection: Acoustic Emissions

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Drone Detection: Thermal Signature

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Drone Detection: Radar Signature

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Drone Detection: Radar Signature
…used an Arduino…replaced SODAR with Cantenna…

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Drone Detection
…why stop there…

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What we’re *really* up to…

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Above: A two-horn system at Bolling Field, USA, in 1921. The building in the
background is the Army War College at Fort McNair.

Other Cool Stuff – Food for Thought
Vary GPS timing signals
Jam WiFi
…ummm. This
is Illegal.

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Just another Drone Application

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Drones
Penultimate DIY…

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What the ORNL UAS Research
Center is doing… (play the video)

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Drones
Knowbeforeyoufly.org
Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA)
http://www.modelaircraft.org/
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
http://www.auvsi.org/
Small UAV Coalition
http://www.smalluavcoalition.org/
FAA NPRM Part 107
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-02-23/pdf/2015-03544.pdf
References

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Questions???

Fuhr fed ex institute drone expo keynote 9apr16

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