February 1, 2017
Implementing Vision Feedback In A Closed Loop Servo For Robotics
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Robert L. Kay
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-02-raia
Abstract
The coming generation of robotic products will need to
incorporate vision as an inherent feature and capability. Doing so in servo
based systems bring with it a special set of challenges. This presentation will
discuss the impact of using servo based systems for articulated arms and then
adding closed loop camera controls.
Elite Robotics is a startup that is working on a 3D camera
and robot targeted at bench top assembly tasks. Our robot incorporates our 3D
camera into the robot controls using the techniques discussed.
He will also bring the MiniMe Robot and 3D camera for
showcase.
About the Speaker
Robert L. Kay, President/CEO of Elite Robotics Corp.,
cofounded the startup company to be a provider of bench top robotics and
automation products. In parallel he cofounded and has been President/CEO of
Elite Engineering Corp. which has for 28 years provided contract Design
Engineering and Manufacturing services for instrumentation, automation and
diagnostic products. With a unique blend of interdisciplinary engineering and
entrepreneurial business skills this has led to 8 patents and experience
covering applications for IVD devices, biotech and industrial
instrumentation/automation, 3D vision systems, robotics, missile systems and
more.
Robert’s business experience includes operations, business
development, marketing and manufacturing with hi-tech Fortune 100 companies
operating in the medical, biotech and industrial market spaces.
Prior to starting up Elite, Robert worked at companies such
as Teledyne Systems, ISC Aerospace and Burroughs Corp covering industrial and
military applications. This gave him an engineering background that covers
system design, analog and digital electronics, mechanical design, optics and software.
His first engineering career job was designing servo signal processing and
read/write chain design for what was to become the worlds first operational
optical data disk system.
Robert earned a BS in Engineering from CSU Northridge in
1979. He has been married since 1974 and has two children.
Location
CLU
- Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room 253
(Enter via west lobby)
California Lutheran University
130 Overton Court
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of
the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the
southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef (map).
Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved lots.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura Robotics and
Automation/Industry Applications Chapter
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February 14, 2017
The Smartphone Transition from 4G to 5G Technologies
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: David Pehlke
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-02-com
Abstract
Even as 5G technology begins to be defined in the 3GPP
standards body, the significant capabilities and evolution of LTE-Advanced
Pro (4G) show it to have tremendous strength in many areas that 5G is being
developed to address. This presentation will try to address fundamental
questions such as “What is 5G?”, “What can 5G do that 4G cannot?”, “When will
5G be available in commercial smartphones?”, and “What difference will a 5G
smartphone make for me?”. As we begin this transition from 4G to 5G, the
emerging requirements and challenges for the radio and RF front-end
implementations are significant, as is the uncertainty of when 5G
technologies will start to play a significant role. A focused discussion of
the current 4G evolution will cover RF front-end (RFFE) architectures and
implementations that are developing new ways to optimize LTE-Advanced PRO
(Rel 13) multi-component Carrier Aggregation (CA), advanced features to
increase spectral efficiency such as higher order modulation and higher order
MIMO, and the concurrent operation of all of these features together. Recent
trends to improve radio performance are driving specific blocks (such as the
Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)) into the RF front-end, with associated
architecture changes in both primary and diversity paths. CA features are
supported in a number of different methods with different insertion loss,
isolation, and noise figure trade-offs, and here we will examine benefits of
a new category of highly integrated Diversity Receive (DRx) modules to
enhance receiver sensitivity across all use cases. Movement toward higher
order MIMO in the downlink (DL) is compounding additional RF Rx path support
and requirements, and cost-effective solutions for optimum performance
trade-offs require a holistic and complete RF system-view of both transmit
(Tx) and receive (Rx) in order to address these emerging requirements. As an
extension of the significant 4G developments, analysis of 5G features that
support enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), Ultra Low Latency High Reliability
(ULLHR), and massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) applications,
enabling technologies such as massive MIMO and beam forming, strategies for
spectral and energy efficiency, radio communications at mmWave frequencies,
and new flexible use of spectral resources will be summarized. The ambition
of 5G is to introduce these disruptive technologies in order to meet the
needs of exploding demand for mobile data and the services that support it,
so-called Big Mobile Data, and to become the ubiquitous infrastructure for an
extended mobile wireless future. Some concluding assessments of how and when
this might happen in smartphones will be presented.
About the Speaker
David R. Pehlke, PhD is currently a senior technical
director of Systems Engineering at Skyworks Solutions. He received his Ph.D.
and M.S.E. in the areas of solid-state device physics and technology
optimization of III-V compound semiconductors from the University of Michigan
and his S.B.E.E from M.I.T. Previous experience over the last 23 years has
ranged from microwave, mmWave circuit design, RF CMOS model development and
cellular technology research at the Rockwell Science Center, RFIC design and
service as design lead for the first polar modulator to market for EDGE
applications with Ericsson Mobile Platforms, highly integrated CMOS Power
Amplifier design and reference radio architecture and systems development at
Silicon Laboratories and ST-Ericsson, and more recently as systems lead for
the Advanced Mobile Solutions division of Skyworks. He has served as the
company’s 3GPP delegate to RAN4 and RAN1, serves as the intellectual property
liaison for the AMS division, and has 31 patents issued with more pending. He
is an IEEE Senior member and presently chairs the IEEE Buenaventura
Communications Society.
Location
Skyworks Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(Not the main building; please use link to arrow that
pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Communications
Society Chapter
Flyer
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February 22, 2017
Family Health Improvement
Dinner (optional): Available at 6:00 PM for $12,
payable at the door. [Note new price for dinner.]
Presentation (free): 7:00 PM
Presenter: Cindy Keitel
Free admission to presentation. No registration required.
Abstract
Good health involves daily choices and habits that
contribute to your well-being now and for the future. We sometimes ignore the
things that ensure balance and lead to good health. This presentation will
highlight simple but important steps you can take to improve your health the
health of your family members.
About the Speaker
Cindy Keitel is currently Community Relations Coordinator at
California Lutheran University. She joined CLU's Communications and
Marketing Division in 2008. She previously worked in marketing and
communication in the healthcare industry for 20 years, serving as associate
vice president and director of Health and Wellness for Health Net. Keitel,
who received her MBA from CLU, has served in leadership positions for the
American Heart Association for 15 years and was honored as the organization’s
2006 Volunteer of the Year.
Keitel works with non-profit organizations to increase the
number of CLU staff and faculty members providing service in the community.
Keitel also oversees neighbor relations, provides material for the
university’s Neighbors and Visitors Web site and serves as a liaison for the
CLU’s Community Leaders Association and other organizations.
Location
CLU -
Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room 253
(Enter via west lobby)
California Lutheran University
130 Overton Court
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of
the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the
southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef (map). Do not park in the
faculty/staff/reserved lots.
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society Chapter
Visit
the EMBS web site for more information
February 23, 2017
National Engineering Week Banquet
Presented by National Engineers Week Committee
for Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties
Registration/Social Hour: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Dinner, Awards & Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The 44th Annual Engineers Week Banquet will be held on
Thursday evening, February 23, 2017 in the Grand Salon at Cal State
University Channel Islands in Camarillo. Last year's program was sold out so
purchase your tickets early!
Purchase tickets at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-02-newc
The Program shines a spotlight on the local engineering
societies as their Engineer of the Year and Project of the Year selections
are recognized. We honor a local educator who has contributed to encouraging
and stimulating middle or high school students to study science and
engineering. We recognize one individual for outstanding service to the
engineering/scientific profession and service to the community. We also award
a number of scholarships to local engineering students attending local
colleges & universities.
The 2017 guest speaker is Dr. Michael Ressler, NASA JPL, US
Project Scientist for the Mid-InfraRed Instrument, MIRI, one of four
instruments to fly on the James Webb Space Telescope. It is his
responsibility to ensure that the JPL contributions to MIRI will enable it to
perform the observations desired by the astronomical community.
Scheduled to launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope
will revolutionize our study of the cosmos. Built to address the questions
asked by the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes but out of their reach to
answer, JWST will look deeper than either telescope at infrared wavelengths
with a suite of instruments that have capabilities that were not previously
available.
Dr. Ressler will introduce the telescope, its instruments,
and some of the science topics that the Webb Telescope will address. He will
also describe a few of the engineering challenges that had to be solved
during its design, and mention the vital contributions of Ventura and Santa
Barbara Counties to the Webb Telescope.
About the Speaker
Dr. Michael Ressler received his bachelor's degree in
Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, followed by a
PhD in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1992. He came to
JPL after graduation as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, and
joined the JPL staff in 1994. He has been involved in building infrared
astronomical instruments since he was an undergraduate and has specialized in
understanding the design and operation of the detectors in these instruments.
Ground-based instruments he has worked on have been used on the Keck
Telescopes, the Palomar 200" telescope, and the 3-m NASA Infrared
Telescope Facility.
Purchase your tickets today at
www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-02-newc . IEEE Buenaventura Section is a
cosponsor of this event.
February 28, 2017
Technology Requirements and Initiatives for 5G Radio Front-Ends
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Stephen Kovacic
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-02-edcas
Abstract
A review of semiconductor and package technology choices for
5G communication systems are considered. The market context for 4G and future
5G systems along with existing RF Front-End UE architectures are reviewed
with emphasis on SIP technology. Silicon-on-Insulator, InP HBTs, and other
technology candidates are discussed within this context. We conclude that
rapid customization at the module level is needed in order to serve different
manifestations of 5G systems in the early phases of market deployment and
demonstrators.
About the Speaker
Stephen J. Kovacic, B.Sc. (Waterloo ‘87), Ph.D.
(McMaster ‘93), LL.B (Ottawa, 2000) has worked with semiconductors and
optical devices for 25 years. His technical experiences include work on
device physics, model parameter extraction, BiCMOS process flow engineering,
and RF circuit design. Dr. Kovacic holds 16 patents in the area of
opto-electronics and semiconductors.
From 1997 to 2006, Dr. Kovacic held positions at SiGe
Semiconductor where he managed the development of technology and products in
the area of RF integrated circuits for wireless applications. In 2006, Dr.
Kovacic was called to the Bar of Ontario and Massachusetts, and was
subsequently appointed patent and corporate counsel for SiGe Semiconductor
until its acquisition by Skyworks Solutions in 2011. Dr. Kovacic is presently
Director, Technology for Skyworks Solutions with a home base in Ottawa,
Canada and holds an adjunct professor position at Carleton University.
Location
Skyworks Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(Not the main building; please use link to arrow that
pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Electron
Devices/Circuits and Systems Chapter
Flyer
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March 1, 2017
Integrating Renewables into Daily Grid Operations
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: William Barlak
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2017-03-raia
Abstract
In the power industry, customer demand must be balanced in
real-time with utility supply. In the past, this task consisted of estimating
demand and providing for the supply in advance, and dispatching the supply to
meet the demand in real-time. Now, as more and more variable energy resources
such as wind and solar are coming on-line, the task of balancing demand and
supply is creating very real challenges for those responsible for operating
the grid. Mr. William Barlak will speak on the nature of the challenges and
how the power industry aims to meet them.
About the Speaker
William Barlak is the Manager of System Reliability
Studies at the Energy Control Center of the Los Angeles Department of Water
& Power. Mr. Barlak began working for LADWP in 1981 and has spent his
entire 36-year career in Operations. He manages a group that performs power
flow studies to assess power system reliability for upcoming equipment
outages, develops reliable operating strategies to be used during the
outages, and recommends the most effective post-contingency remedial action
to Load Dispatchers. In his career, he has developed an Excel-based
reliability-constrained power flow technique to facilitate reliability
analysis of the LADWP power system, and he also developed online reliability
tools and models through which the LADWP Reliability Criteria, NERC
Transmission Operational Reliability Standards, and Peak Reliability System
Operating Limit Methodology are met in real time. He has also developed a
technique through which LADWP’s Reliability Must-Run Generation is identified
and the cost of running this generation is captured after-the-fact. Mr.
Barlak received his BSEE (with an emphasis in Power Systems) in 1981 from
Fresno State, and received his MSEE in Power Systems in 1984 from USC.
Location
CLU
- Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room 253
(Enter via west lobby)
California Lutheran University
130 Overton Court
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of
the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the
southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef (map).
Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved lots.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura Robotics and
Automation/Industry Applications Chapter
Flyer
(PDF)
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