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Advanced Systems Design VI

Vladimir I. Ovod, Ph.D.

Over 15 years in Advanced Systems Design (ASD)

esearch, development, and implementation of medical, industrial and military systems

and

sensors,

and in modeling, simulations, design and optimization of electro-optical sensors, systems,

imagers,

and control algorithms

and automation tests

Co ntrol engineerin g including modeling, simulations, design, optimization and implementation
Infrared (IR) and Electro-optical (EO) imagers/sensors design, integration, verification and implementation
S ystems Engineering of complex IR/EO-systems from Marketing/Customer Requirements through the Military-Proven
Model-Based Design and advanced Metric-Driven Verification to Integration and Production
FPGA/Matlab-based image processing for multiple target tracking and cluttered background rejection
Laser Radars , Particle Sizing and Light Scattering
Automation of test set-ups, data acquisition
Matlab, C, Simulink, Xilinx Sysgen, ISE
Theoretical background and hands-on experience in measurement techniques and test automation

Simulation of influence of atmospheric effects onto electro-optical sensors, wave-propagation in turbid media

Night Vision, F PGA/Matlab-based image processing, passive and active IR system design for night vision, target
detection and tracking.

System Engineering based on Agile SCRUM methodologies
Solid experience with all levels of systems-, design-, and regulatory documentation
Military-proven Model-Based Design (re-usable, effective, and fast-to-market design methodologies)
Developing and upgrading algorithms and embedded software for real time data interpretation of measurement results
and error correction in various kind of electro-optical systems and sensors including IR systems.

Measurement techniques, error correction and optimization.
Particle Sizing and Light Scattering. Explaining and solving problems in particle size measurements in variety
application fields:
suspensions, aerosols, colloids, powders, biological cells , oils and other kind of particles used, in particular, in
semiconductor industry, clean room industries, medicine, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, oil, gas, paint, food and other
areas.
Increasing accuracy of optical particle sizing systems based on the following techniques:

Single Particle Interaction with a Laser Beam (SPS )
Dynamic Light Scattering / Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (DLS )
Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA )
Fraunhofer Diffraction (light scattering by ensemble of particles)
Electrophoretic Light Scattering (ELS).

Combining the advantages of different types of particle size analyzers.
Converting measurement results obtained by various particle size analyzers to the general platform.
Improving instrument's operation through interpretation of measurement results, error correction , design optimization ,
software development, mathematical modeling of multiple light scattering , etc.
Providing numerical modeling, of measurement results by using multiple light scattering algorithms.

L aser Flow Cytometry: Hydrodynamic focusing of the particle/cell flows, flow-monodispestion and sorting of
particles/cells.

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                                     Vladimir Ovod
                                     www.asdvi.com
                                     Email: vovod@yahoo.com