Parietal Systems is pleased to announce the award of a new contract with DARPA's Information Exploitation Office (IXO). This new Phase II SBIR is focused on developing techniques that will help to mimic the common sense employed by a human operator while tracking the movements of multiple ground-based vehicles. While other researchers have attempted to incorporate this type of information in a variety of ways, PSI is attempting a novel approach based upon the use of "Logic Based Optimization", a relatively new form of optimization that marries constrain based reasoning with more traditional forms of optimization, such as mathematical programming. Based upon results obtained during the Phase I research, PSI believes that the development of a more sophisticated form of association algorithm based upon these techniques can lend itself to a system that can use constraints to represent various forms of "common sense" while still providing the mathematical rigor inherent in most approaches to tracking.
Parietal Systems , a privately held firm in North Andover, MA, provides engineering support services and technology development for the United States government. PSI's focus is on the development and fielding of information technologies requiring the development of sophisticated mathematical solutions.