Singapore-U.S. Tactical All-Inclusive Navigation (SUSTAIN) collaborative innovation
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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June 25, 2016
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June 25, 2016
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June 25, 2016
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International Forum
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10
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10.18260/1-2--27256
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https://peer.asee.org/27256
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394
Paper Authors
Frederick C Webber Air Force Research Laboratory
Mr. Webber holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Mr. Webber is currently an autonomy engineer with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory's Warfighter Readiness Research Division, where he is responsible for STEM outreach and for identifying advances in the gaming industry that can improve warfighter training. Mr. Webber is an alternative navigation specialist on the SUSTAIN team.
KelseyLee Hunter Schafer Air Force Research Laboratory
KelseyLee H. Schafer, 1st Lieutenant USAF received her bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Cincinnati, (Cincinnati, OH) and serves as a program manager and research engineer in the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Vehicles Directorate. She is currently pursuing her masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Cincinnati.
Eric T. Vinande Air Force Research Laboratory
John P McIntire US Air Force Research Laboratory
John McIntire is an Engineering Research Psychologist at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA. He received his masters in human factors psychology in 2007 and his PhD in human factors psychology in 2014, both from Wright State University.
Daniel D. Jensen U.S. Air Force Academy
Dr. Dan Jensen is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where he has been since 1997. He received his B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), M.S. (Applied Mechanics) and Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering Science) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, NASA, University of the Pacific, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and MSC Software Corp. His research includes design of Micro Air Vehicles, development of innovative design methodologies and enhancement of engineering education. Dr Jensen has authored over 100 refereed papers and has been awarded over $4 million of research grants.
Shaohui Foong Singapore University of Technology and Design
Wai Yong Chue DSO National Laboratories
Yaohui Li DSO National Laboratories
Kevin Ang Temasek Laboratories @ National University of Singapore
Kevin received his B.Eng. degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2006. After completing his undergraduate degree, he joined the Singapore Armed Forces as a Maintenance Engineering Officer, fulfilling his scholarship bond. Then upon receiving the DSO Ph.D Research Award in 2010, he pursued and graduated with his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore early 2015. He is now working as a research scientist in the control science group at Temasek Laboratories. His current research interests lie in vision-based obstacle detection, navigation and the development of UAVs in urban environments.
Richard H. Crawford P.E. University of Texas, Austin
Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his MSME in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer-aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a ”Design Technology” program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to educate teachers of high school engineering.
Gabriel Hoongwen Wong DSO National Laboratories
Abstract
The Singapore-U.S. Tactical All-Inclusive Navigation (SUSTAIN) initiative is an international research and development collaboration between military and academic scientists from both Singapore and the United States. SUSTAIN’s goal is to bring to bear the strengths of both nations to solve navigation problems faced in degraded or denied Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) environments by dismounted warfighters. The SUSTAIN team is composed of 9 members and several subject matter experts and mentors with diverse technical backgrounds working as a single team rather than a group of distributed teams. The team members work in both the U.S. and Singapore, and are separated by over 15000 kilometers and a 13-hour time difference.
The team faces cultural and political differences, and collaboration and communication are key challenges impacting the innovation process. Specific collaboration challenges are discussed including interpersonal relationships between team members, particularly communication and trust; sharing data, documents, and knowledge effectively without being co-located; and how to effectively identify problems of mutual interest, understand ideas conceived internationally, and solve relevant problems. Methods and tools being utilized to facilitate the collaborative process are described and discussed, in terms of needs and their perceived efficacy. Guidance, suggestions, and possible ideas for future international collaborative R&D teams of a similar nature are provided.
Webber, F. C., & Schafer, K. H., & Vinande, E. T., & McIntire, J. P., & Jensen, D. D., & Foong, S., & Chue, W. Y., & Li, Y., & Ang, K., & Crawford, R. H., & Wong, G. H. (2016, June), Singapore-U.S. Tactical All-Inclusive Navigation (SUSTAIN) collaborative innovation Paper presented at 2016 ASEE International Forum, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/1-2--27256
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