RAAINS participants will have the opportunity to register for a set of Laboratory tours on the afternoon of Monday 11/14. To be eligible for certain tours, participants must possess a valid Common Access Card.
Off-site MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D Facilities; Includes both Hanscom Air Force Base and Virtual Environment Laboratory (2 Hours)
Max Seats: 60
To attend this tour, attendees must possess a valid Common Access Card. Please bring your CAC to the workshop to access this bus tour.
Autonomous Systems Development Facility >
Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts
The ASDF is a state-of-the-art resource that enables the development and testing of autonomy algorithms and capabilities. The 17,000-square-foot indoor test facility accommodates the prototyping and testing of ground-based, aerial, and undersea autonomous systems.
Flight Test Facility >
Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts
Lincoln Laboratory's Flight Test Facility operates several aircraft that are used to flight-test prototype systems for diverse airborne applications. Researchers evaluate new antennas, imagers for air surveillance, aircraft collision-avoidance tools, and long-range RF and laser communication systems.
Radio Frequency Systems Test Facility (RFSTF) >
Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts
The RFSTF enables researchers to fabricate, integrate, and test in anechoic chambers RF systems to ensure they will work well in the field. The facility includes six anechoic chambers, specially outfitted with microwave-absorbing material to suppress noise and provide isolation from external signals that could interfere with system measurements. The chambers allow for antenna, radar cross section, electromagnetic interference, and system tests and measurements over a wide frequency range.
STRIVE Center >
Billerica, Massachusetts
The Sensorimotor Technology Realization in Immersive Virtual Environments (STRIVE) Center houses the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) system, a “flight simulator for dismounted activities.” Users interact with a projected immersive virtual environment within a 24-foot tall dome while balancing, walking, or running on a treadmill embedded in a moving platform as state-of-the-art sensing capabilities assess their biomechanical, physiological, and cognitive performance.
Off-site Immersive Virtual Environment Laboratory Standalone Tour (1 Hour)
Max Seats: 20
No CAC required
STRIVE Center >
Billerica, Massachusetts
The Sensorimotor Technology Realization in Immersive Virtual Environments (STRIVE) Center houses the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) system, a “flight simulator for dismounted activities.” Users interact with a projected immersive virtual environment within a 24-foot tall dome while balancing, walking, or running on a treadmill embedded in a moving platform as state-of-the-art sensing capabilities assess their biomechanical, physiological, and cognitive performance.
On-site MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D Facilities (2 Hours)
Max Participants: 60
AI-enabled Ultrasound for Field Forward Medicine
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The Human Health and Performance Systems Group will showcase system prototypes and developments that use AI to enable non-experts to use ultrasound technologies in field forward environments. The AI-guided Ultrasound Intervention Device (AI-GUIDE) will enable users to perform emergency battlefield interventions such as vascular access. The AI-enabled Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (AIDMSK) effort will allow users to rapidly and accurately quantify musculoskeletal injuries such as plantar fasciitis and stress fractures.
Defense Fabric Discovery Center (DFDC) >
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The DFDC is a state-of-the-art prototyping facility that houses technology to develop advanced fibers and fabrics for defense applications. The center is equipped to design and produce fabrics with embedded microelectronics, enabling these fabrics to change color, store energy, emit and detect light, monitor health, or facilitate communication.
Human-AI Performance Incubator >
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The AI Software and Architectures Group manages the HAPI Lab, which is focused on developing performance metrics for Human Machine Teaming. This tour includes a short presentation that describes the system performance monitoring pipeline, physiological sensor suite, 3D scanning and AR/VR capabilities. Following the presentation, visitors will see a closed loop eye tracking demonstration where the user's eye motion is used to control a computer game and also given a tour of our extended reality (ER) HAPI-ER lab space.
Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) >
Holyoke, Massachusetts and MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The LLSC is an interactive, on-demand parallel computing system that uses large computing clusters to enable Laboratory researchers to augment the power of desktop systems to process large sets of sensor data, create high-fidelity simulations, and develop entirely new algorithms. The petaflop-scale computing system contains 41,472 processor cores that can compute 1015 operations per second.
Microelectronics Laboratory >
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The Microelectronics Laboratory is a state-of-the-art semiconductor research and fabrication facility that supports the design, fabrication, and packaging of novel devices.