Method and software for auditing irrigation systems using thermal drone imaging
TS-076584 — A drone-enabled technology for auditing irrigation performance across golf courses, athletic fields, agricultural land, parks, and other managed landscapes. The system combines aerial sensor data with geospatial mapping and intelligent analysis to generate visual irrigation-audit maps and indicators of water-distribution uniformity and system efficiency. This approach may reduce the time and field labor required for conventional irrigation audits while helping users identify uneven watering and irrigation components that may need attention.
Researchers at The Ohio State University are developing a method and software workflow for evaluating irrigation-system performance using drone-mounted thermal imaging and geospatial analysis. The approach captures thermal imagery of turf surfaces before, during, and after an irrigation cycle. The i…
- College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
- Inventors: Vanlandingham, Tyler; Petrella, Dominic
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Automated Cross-Document Table Consolidation and Visualization Platform
TS-075489 —
Organizations across healthcare, government, finance, market intelligence, and regulatory sectors routinely generate large collections of reports containing valuable tabular data. While these reports often follow consistent formats, extracting, comparing, and analyzing information across multiple …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Bajaj, Goonmeet Kaur; Parthasarathy, Srinivasan
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Ontology-Based Fault Propagation Analysis for Safety-Critical Systems
TS-075450 —
Safety-critical systems in industries such as energy, aerospace, industrial automation, and advanced manufacturing are becoming increasingly complex, integrating hardware, software, controls, sensors, and communication networks. Existing fault analysis methods are often domain-specific and require…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Diao, Xiaoxu; Smidts, Carol
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Motion Signature-Based Secure Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Identification Platform
TS-075425 —
Many vehicle-based transactions and automated services rely on proximity technologies such as RFID, NFC, GPS, or license plate recognition. These approaches can struggle with lane-level accuracy, require dedicated hardware installed on vehicles, or are vulnerable to misidentification when multiple…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ramnath, Rajiv; Cobb, Derrick; Sinha, Prasun; Tummala, Gopi krishna
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
MuAMO: an Intelligent Maintenance Optimization Framework for Safety-Critical Systems
TS-073254 —
Industries operating safety‑critical and asset‑intensive systems struggle to leverage the full value of disparate maintenance data sources. Current maintenance management and optimization tools operate in silos, limiting real‑time decision‑making, automation, and scalability. No existing s…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Khafizov, Marat; Pietrykowski, Michael; Vaddi, Pavan Kumar; Zhao, Yunfei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
A Novel Machine Learning Approach for Classification at the Network Edge
TS-073225 —
In today's world, we are increasingly using low-cost devices with limited resources (often referred to as "edge devices") which are supported by connected high-performance servers. However, these edge devices often can't handle complex tasks such as classifying data. To make this possible, we need…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Li, Chengzhang; Eryilmaz, Atilla; Ju, Peizhong; Shroff, Ness
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
DPRA: Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Cyber Security Risk Analysis
TS-073146 —
As industrial systems become increasingly digital and interconnected, traditional risk assessment tools struggle to capture how cyber threats interact with physical processes in real time. Existing methods typically assess hardware failures or isolated cyber events, but they cannot model how attac…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Vaddi, Pavan Kumar; Zhao, Yunfei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Model-Based, Multi-Criteria Optimization for Sensor Placement and Selection
TS-073138 —
Designing online monitoring (OLM) for safety‑critical systems is constrained by scarce early‑stage operational data and by quantitative models that are slow to build, brittle across configurations, and costly to iterate. This creates expensive sensor networks with blind spots, poor diagnosabil…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Olatubosun, Samuel; Rownak, Md Ragib; Vaddi, Pavan Kumar
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Immersive VR Platform for Human Reliability Assessment for Physical Security
TS-073103 —
Physical protection remains a major driver of nuclear plant operations and maintenance costs, yet current security risk models rely on conservative assumptions and sparse empirical data on how defenders and operators actually behave under extreme threat. They rarely capture errors of commission, k…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Dechasuravanit, Atitarn; Diao, Xiaoxu; Olatubosun, Samuel; Rownak, Md Ragib; Shafieezadeh, Abdollah; Yilmaz, Alper; Zhao, Yunfei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Risk‑Informed Markov Decision Framework for Industrial Asset Management
TS-073031 —
Operators of large, complex facilities struggle to balance revenue, maintenance, and regulatory safety constraints under uncertainty. Existing tools typically optimize only a subset of factors without a unified, real‑time view of component health and future degradation. Advanced reactors and oth…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhao, Yunfei; Smidts, Carol
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
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