- 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
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
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
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.