- University of Vermont, Burlington VT— Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. 2011
- University of Vermont, Burlington VT— Mechanical Engineering M.S. 2006
- University of Vermont, Burlington VT— Mechanical Engineering B.S. 2002
Mechanical Engineering
BIO
Founded dbgear llc in 2016.
Patents:
“Wideband Ground Penetrating Radar System and Method” US11029402B2
“Vibrating Magnet Antenna” US10771116B2
Courses
CEE 1100 – Statics, ME 1120 – Dynamics, ME 1140 – Mechanics of Solids, ME 44 – Heat Transfer for Civil Engineers, ME 1510 – Computational Mech Engr Lab, ME 2111 – Materials and Mechanics Lab, ME 2120 – System Dynamics, ME 2240 – Heat Transfer, ME 2310 – Design of Elements, ME 3170 – Structural Dynamics, ME 3390 – Modern Manufacturing Processes
Area(s) of expertise
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for applications including subsurface detection of buried objects, monitoring and mapping underground utilities. Research and Development (R&D), electromechanical device design, RF Signals, prototype development and fabrication, hands-on experience with tools and machinery, laboratory product testing, test fixture design, data/signal processing and analysis, material testing, MATLAB, SolidWorks.
Bio
Founded dbgear llc in 2016.
Patents:
“Wideband Ground Penetrating Radar System and Method” US11029402B2
“Vibrating Magnet Antenna” US10771116B2
Courses
CEE 1100 – Statics, ME 1120 – Dynamics, ME 1140 – Mechanics of Solids, ME 44 – Heat Transfer for Civil Engineers, ME 1510 – Computational Mech Engr Lab, ME 2111 – Materials and Mechanics Lab, ME 2120 – System Dynamics, ME 2240 – Heat Transfer, ME 2310 – Design of Elements, ME 3170 – Structural Dynamics, ME 3390 – Modern Manufacturing Processes
Areas of Expertise
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for applications including subsurface detection of buried objects, monitoring and mapping underground utilities. Research and Development (R&D), electromechanical device design, RF Signals, prototype development and fabrication, hands-on experience with tools and machinery, laboratory product testing, test fixture design, data/signal processing and analysis, material testing, MATLAB, SolidWorks.
Publications
Owen B., Dylan B., Tian X., Dryver H. (2022) Structured radio-frequency beams for sensing and communication applications. Proceedings of SPIE - Radar Sensor Technology XXV.
Nick H., Wilson E., Dylan B., Tian X., Dryver H. (2022). Improved mechanisms of active magnetic sensing for subterranean target discrimination. Proceedings of SPIE - Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing XXIII, 121161.
Girard, J., Dryver, H., Dylan, B., Burns, Xia, Tian, X. (2022). Realtime visual-inertial SLAM integrated with radar data to triangulate targets. Proceedings Volume 12125, Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations III; 121250G
N. Hanna, W. Ezequelle, D. Burns, T. Xia and D. Huston. (2022) Phased Array Rotating Magnet Sensing of Subsurface Conductive Material. IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology (PAST), Waltham, MA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-8.
Girard, J., Burns, D., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2021). Penetrating radar combined with 3-D imaging for real-time augmented reality sensing and classification. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11759.
Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2021). Synthetic ultrawideband orbital angular momentum radar. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 15(1).
Orfeo, D., Zhang, Y., Burns, D., Xia, T., & Huston, D. (2021). Ultra-wideband ground penetrating radar with orbital angular momentum control. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11750.
Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Xia, T., & Huston, D. (2021). Y-Stator Vibrating Magnet Antenna. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 57(7).
Pereira, M., Burns, D., Orfeo, D., Zhang, Y., Jiao, L., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2020). 3-D Multistatic Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging for Augmented Reality Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(8), 5666-5675.
Ezequelle, W., Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Xia, T., & Huston, D. (2020). Active magnetic sensing for subterranean urban target discrimination. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11380.
Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2020). Electrically controlled phased array OAM radar. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11408.
Childs, J., Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2020). Enhancing ground penetrating radar with augmented reality systems for underground utility management. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11426.
Worley, R., Dewoolkar, M., Xia, T., Farrell, R., Orfeo, D., Burns, D., & Huston, D. (2019). Acoustic Emission Sensing for Crack Monitoring in Prefabricated and Prestressed Reinforced Concrete Bridge Girders. Journal of Bridge Engineering, 24(4).
Orfeo, D., Zhang, Y., Burns, D., Miller, J., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2019). Bistatic antenna configurations for air-launched ground penetrating radar. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 13(2).
Pereira, M., Zhang, Y., Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2018). 3D tomography for multistatic GPR subsurface sensing. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10633.
Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Farrell, R., Qin, M., Mitchell, H., Ou, C., Xia, T., & Huston, D. (2018). Mechano-magnetic telemetry for underground water infrastructure monitoring. Frontiers in Built Environment, 4.
Yu, T.Y., Zhang, Y., Orfeo, D., Burns, D., Miller, J., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2017). Buried nonmetallic object detection using bistatic ground penetrating radar with variable antenna elevation angle and height. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10169.
Zhang, Y., Burns, D., Orfeo, D., Huston, D., & Xia, T. (2017). Rough ground surface clutter removal in air-coupled ground penetrating radar data using low-rank and sparse representation. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10169.