Jeffrey A Sutton

Address:

100 Cherrywood St, Bellaire, TX 77401

Phone:

7136653366

VIN:

WBAVA33577PG50344

Make:

BMW

Model:

3 SERIES

Year:

2007

US Patent:

7266532, Sep 4, 2007

Filed:

Jun 3, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/161058

Inventors:

Jeffrey P. Sutton - Bellaire TX, US
Ian MacQueen Drummond Jamieson - Rumford RI, US

Assignee:

The General Hospital Corporation - Boston MA

International Classification:

G06F 15/18

US Classification:

706 12, 706 14, 706 46

Abstract:

The present invention describes the use of autonomous devices, which can be arranged in networks, such as neural networks, to better identify, track, and acquire sources of signals present in an environment. The environment may be a physical environment, such as a battlefield, or a more abstract environment, such as a communication network. The devices may be mobile, in the form of vehicles with sensors, or may be information agents, and may also interact with one another, thus allowing for a great deal of flexibility in carrying out a task. In some cases, the devices may be in the form of autonomous vehicles which can collaboratively sense, identify, or classify a number of sources or targets concurrently. The autonomous devices may function as mobile agents or attractors in a network, such as a neural network. The devices may also be aggregated to form a network of networks and provide scalability to a system in which the autonomous devices are operating.