Anthony J. Healey
Emeritus Distinguished Professor Healey was born in London in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. He received his education at Kings College, London University and his Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield in 1966. Professor Healey married and became the proud father of three wonderful children; Col. Anthony J. Healey currently serving in the US Army with NATO forces at Cheltenham, UK; Dr. Joanna Phoenix, Past Dean at Durham University, UK; and, Dr. Victoria Healey-McCarthy a practicing physician with Associates in Family Medicine, Fort Collins, Colorado, and two granddaughters, with the elder currently studying at Colorado University at Boulder. He is married to Anne, a graduate of Stanford University and retired IBM Senior Manager.
Dr. Healey began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and obtained teaching and research positions at MIT, Cambridge University UK, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he was hired as chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1986. He is the founding co-director of the Center for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUV) Research. He is also responsible for the development of the Phoenix and Aries Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Professor Healey has supervised numerous Masters and Ph.D. students, many of whom pursued AUV related topics. Professor Healey has authored or coauthored more than 180 papers and publications.
As a member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society he has organized AUV conferences and workshops focusing on multi-robot systems; Fault Detection, Modeling and Simulation for Mine Countermeasures. Professor Healey expanded the interest of the center to encompass Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Autonomous Surface Ships. In 2003, N.P.S. combined the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Departments where he became the first Chairman of that department. Dr. Healey has received numerous awards including the Life Fellow and Dedicated Service Awards from the A.S.M.E., the Distinguished Professorship at N.P.S., International Man of the Year from Cambridge, UK, and the N.P.S. Dedicated Service Award. In 2010, Anthony became the first recipient of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society AUV Technical Achievement Award.
November 6th
18:00 - 19:00
Abstract
This Presentation is intended to recall some of the work done during the development of unmanned vehicles over the past thirty years. The IEEE has hosted many of the International Conferences through the AUV series of conferences, both classified and unclassified, as well as the Oceans Conferences. Starting with the late 1980s, AUV 1990 and AUV 92 work began at the Sea Grant at MIT, at NPS, at The University of Porto and at IST Lisbon, IFREMER, Woods Hole, Brussels (Mast Program) and at Draper Laboratories as the US Navy began to address its unmet needs in Shallow Water Mine Hunting and the needs for higher resolution sampling the parameters of oceanographic measurements.
The use and deployment of robotic unmanned vehicles in shallow waters presented challenges in Navigation, Communication, and Control. Combined Acoustic and Radio communication systems were needed, multi-vehicle systems,
and finally systems, including aerial drones, surface vehicles and subsurface vehicles, each bringing its own modes of operation to bear on operational situations have been developed.