Signe Redfield

Dr. Signe A. Redfield is currently working on the DARPA Robotic Servicing of Geostationary Satellites (RSGS) project as the Payload Mission Manager Lead. Prior to joining NRL in 2014, she was an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division in Panama City, Florida, supporting autonomous robotics projects and providing expertise gained during a three-year tour as the Associate Director for Autonomy and Unmanned Systems at the U.S. Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) in London.  At ONRG London, Dr. Redfield worked with researchers from a wide range of disciplines. As a result of her term with ONRG, she is currently participating in a NATO Research Task Group focused on autonomy in limited-communications environments.  She is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and is part of the working group that developed the first IEEE RAS standard, covering core ontologies for robotics and automation.

Before joining ONRG London, Dr. Redfield managed a program that sea tested a team consisting of autonomous underwater vehicles, surface vehicles, and simulated vehicles as they performed a variety of search and reacquisition tasks at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division. She also led the development of a new architecture, enabling the simulation and testing of a variety of arbitration mechanisms to control teams of vehicles, leveraging her extensive experience with teams of autonomous vehicles, including development and simulation of behaviors for ground vehicles, autonomous survey patterns for underwater gliders with three dimensional motion simulations, and path planning behaviors for a variety of missions. Her background includes biologically-inspired image processing for robot sensors. She received her B.A. in General Engineering with concentrations in Electrical Engineering and Music from Johns Hopkins University in 1993, and both her M.S. (1998) and her Ph.D. (2001) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.