NIWeek Preliminary Conference Program 2008 - (Page 10) TECHNICAL SUMMITS Discover the new trends and techniques in RF and wireless communications, robotics, sound and vibration, and vision at the NIWeek 2008 summits. RF and Wireless Communications Summit The RF and Wireless Communications Summit engages industry and research experts in the RF and wireless communications fields. Learn about the latest advances from these professionals and find out which tools engineers use to design, develop, and test RF and wireless communications products in a rapidly changing market. Participate in technical sessions presented by top industry experts. Who Should Attend RF, communications systems, and wireless systems engineers; researchers; and professors. Robotics Summit (NEW) Engineers and researchers from industry and academia worldwide have embraced graphical system design with LabVIEW for a wide variety of robotic and autonomous vehicle applications. Learn how you can use LabVIEW and other NI technologies for numerous aspects of robotics design such as interfacing with sensors and actuators, vision processing, and targeting embedded hardware. Who Should Attend Robotics, mechatronics, control, and embedded design engineers; machine builders; scientists; entrepreneurs; and engineering professors and students. Keynote 100 Years of Wireless Technology Examine the requirements for mobile communications and the technology behind it such as Marconi’s invention and modern integrated circuit technology. Learn detailed technological and chronological information relating to communications through the first 100 years of wireless technology and a forecast of future capabilities. Robotics Summit Sessions Include: How Virginia Tech and TORC Technologies Used NI LabVIEW and CompactRIO to Win Third Place in the DARPA Urban Challenge Learn how team Victor Tango and TORC Technologies designed and created an unmanned vehicle using the LabVIEW FPGA, LabVIEW Real-Time, and LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation modules with CompactRIO hardware. Also view a set of LabVIEW tools for Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) for vehicle subsystem communications. Presented by RMFD RF and Wireless Communications Summit Sessions Include: Emerging Test Paradigms for Current and Future RFID Requirements Explore the RFID market and test trends, and get an overview of RFID technology, standards, test requirements, paradigms, and challenging specifications. Learn how traditional test methods compare to a solution built on reconfigurable RF hardware and PXI up/downconverter technology. Also see tag and reader emulation demonstrations. Presented by Virginia Tech Sensing-Rich Approaches to Robotics Systems Design and Control Explore the use of LabVIEW and NI hardware to design and control robotics systems with extended sensing and vision capabilities. Learn about a novel kinematic Kalman filter design for an NSK two-link robot, precision motion control of wafer scanners from Nikon Research, and intelligent power assist for steering. Presented by Nexjen Systems Presented by University of California, Berkeley New Advances in Broadcast Digital Video Testing Learn the challenges of generating and analyzing broadcast digital video and ways DAQTron uses RFSG and RFSA features in this effort. Explore elements such as wider bandwidth, PXI Express (for streaming), and onboard fractional resampling. Using LabVIEW to Control Mitsubishi and Denso Industrial Robots By 2012, 35 to 40 percent of industrial robots will use machine vision. Learn how to tightly integrate robotics and machine vision using LabVIEW. Also discover how direct communication with robotics controllers extends the concept of an abstraction layer that could lead to plug-and-play use of robotics from within LabVIEW. Presented by DAQTron Inc. Presented by Imaging Labs 10
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