William Stuart Michelson

William Stuart Michelson (born 1987) is an American engineer and member of the research faculty at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.[1] Michelson is known as a subject matter expert in Human Systems Engineering.[2] He leads Human Factors and Ergonomics and Human Systems Integration (HSI) efforts for DoD customers specializing in tactical display design spanning command and control,[3] training,[4][5] unmanned vehicle ground control stations[6][7] , Manned-unmanned teaming,[8][9] and mission planning.[10] He has expertise in digital human modeling/ergonomic/anthropometric analyses to assess cockpit accommodation and experience with wearable soldier systems and tactical equipment design.[11][12]

William Stuart Michelson
Born
Atlanta, Georgia
NationalityUnited States of America
Known forHuman Factors Engineering
Trail Life USA
International Aerial Robotics Competition
Robotics competitions
AwardsUnited States Army Battle lab at Fort Benning, Service Commendation (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman Systems Engineering
Human Computer Interaction
Human Systems Integration
Human Factors and Ergonomics
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Tech Research Institute
Trail Life USA

Since 2000, Michelson has organized the American venue and annual Symposium on Dynamic Flight Behavior for Aerial Robotics for the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC).[13] The IARC, which seeks to advance the state of the art in fully autonomous aerial robotics, was created by his father, Robert C. Michelson, in 1991 and has two venues: the American Venue and the Asia/Pacific Venue.

Michelson is a Lifetime Charter member of Trail Life USA,[14] and currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the National Board of Director’s for the organization.[15] He was involved in the launch of the Trail Life USA program in September 2013. Before joining the Board of Directors, Michelson served as the State Leadership Chairman for Georgia, and served as the coordinator for the Atlanta venue of the 2014 Trail Leader Training Conference. He pioneered an adult training model and oversaw its deployment as the chairman an inaugural adult leader training event at the Trail Life USA headquarters located at Camp Aiken in South Carolina.[16] As a certified firearm’s instructor, he led a diverse national team of volunteers to develop the Trail Life USA shooting sports program. As a youth, Michelson came out of the Boy Scouts of America after earning his Eagle Scout rank with 6 Palms and being bestowed the Vigil Honor in the Order of the Arrow. As an adult, and prior to leaving the Boy Scouts of America, Michelson provided a monthly training program for adult volunteers and wrote custom training programs for youth that were adopted nationwide. He led several international Scouting initiatives, as well as organizing and planning Scouting events attended by thousands on a national scale.[17] Other past volunteer roles within the organization included Scoutmaster, Varsity Coach, District Member at Large, Commissioner, and National Order of the Arrow staff.

From 2013 to 2014, Michelson served at an advisory capacity to the board of Reformation Hope in matters dealing with youth programs. He led efforts to foster new opportunities to help youth programs flourish in the country of Haiti and to meet orphaned children's needs, including an exchange program and a clothing acquisition fund.[18] His most recent visit to the country was in 2016. In 2020, Michelson became a volunteer with the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention (ECAP), working on projects aimed at protecting children and other vulnerable populations from abuse.

Biography

Early life
Stuart Michelson’s father next to a portrait of relative Christian Michelsen, at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen Norway.

Michelson was born in 1987 in Atlanta Georgia, the second son of Robert and Denise Michelson, and is related to Christian Michelsen, the first Prime Minister of Norway.[19]

As a youth, Michelson was involved in outdoor activities, especially those involving camping and outdoor skills. To this day, he remains a student of outdoor activities such as sailing, primitive survival skills, archery, and firearms proficiency.

Education

Michelson attended Cherokee Christian School during first through eighth grades. He attended Dominion Christian High School prior to enrolling at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he attained scientific degrees in Science, Technology, and Culture, as well as Human Computer Interaction (with honors).[20]

Career

Michelson has held an Associate Human Factors Professional status from the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics, is recognized as a graphic design professional by the International Academy of Computer Training, is certified to conduct ethical Human Subjects Research by Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, and presently serves the Georgia Tech Research Institute as Senior Research Scientist.[21] He has published over 50 Journal papers, book chapters and reports.

In 2018 he became the Associate Head of the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Human Systems Engineering Branch of the GTRI Electronic Systems Laboratory.[22]

Professional activities
Stuart Michelson calibrating the laser on an experimental drone used in the 8th Mission of the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

Michelson is a full Member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Life member of the National Defense Industrial Association, and a member of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. He serves as a Competition Director on behalf of RoboNation (formerly known as the AUVSI Foundation).

As a member of the Georgia Tech faculty, Michelson has taught several courses including modules in PMASE 6131: Georgia Tech Professional Education, 2017-2018, Applied Systems Engineering: Human Factors Engineering, Training, Survivability, Habitability, User Centered Design, and Test & Evaluation. Michelson has also serves as an instructor for the Georgia Tech Professional Education Short Course Introduction to Human Systems Integration.[23]

He is also organizer of the American Venue of the annual International Aerial Robotics Competition and annual Symposium on Dynamic Flight Behavior for Aerial Robotics[24]

Professional programmatic interests
Stuart Michelson integrating instrumentation into body armor.

In 2007 Michelson began work at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Michelson has supported and led numerous notable programs within the Georgia Tech Research Institute leveraging his knowledge of soldier loadout and autonomous unmanned systems. Notably, he has designed graphical user interfaces, developed human-centered system requirements,[25] led programs to quantify human performance, assessed anthropometric accommodations, and supported system test and evaluation for DoD stakeholders spanning the United States Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps. A frequent speaker across the Georgia Institute of Technology[26] and at international conferences,[27][28] Michelson is known for developing novel concepts for the command and control of unmanned systems,[29][30][31] utilizing Model Based Systems Engineering to express man-machine teaming relationships,[32][33][34] graphical user interface design for DoD systems,[35] military mission planning concepts,[36] and basic research on the touch zone sizes for military touchscreens in moving environments.[37] Michelson has supported and organized a number of military working groups spanning topics such as electronic warfare, unmanned systems, and military end user engagement.[38] Within the Human Factors Engineering context, Michelson is an advocate for “Mission-Driven Robotics”.[39]

Professional honors and awards

Michelson received the Deputy Director’s Certificate for Service from the U.S. Army Soldier Battle Lab at Fort Benning.[40] He is also the recipient of the University System of Georgia Award for Exceptional Composition and the Georgia Secretary of State’s Commendation for Outstanding Citizenship.

Avocations

Michelson is certified in various fields including amateur radio (Technician Class Operator’s License, station KG4ZIR)[41] and scuba diving. He has been a PADI certified SCUBA diver since 2000, and has been a recreational diver in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. He became a certified firearms instructor in 2012.

He is fluent in English, and has proficiency in German.

Michelson has been often quoted in news programming with regard to the International Aerial Robotics Competition and the applications of the underlying technology to military and civilian spheres as well as Trail Life USA on radio and television.[42][43][44] Michelson’s work on the command and control of heterogenous unmanned systems was featured by Drone360 Magazine in 2016,[45] and he has been referenced in Backpacker Magazine.[46] Michelson was also featured in a commercial produced by General Dynamics Mission Systems promoting advancement of the next generation of autonomous systems through collegiate student competition[47] and has been featured repeatedly in promotional materials produced by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International[48][49]

Representative select publications
  • “Concepts for Manned Unmanned Teaming Behaviors in Model Based Systems Engineering,”National Defense Industrial Association Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium, 2019[50]
  • “Human Centered Teaming of Autonomous Battlefield Robotics,”National Defense Industrial Association Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium, 2018[51]
  • “A Survey of the Human-Centered Approach to Micro Air Vehicles”. Chapter 90. Springer Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Springer‑Verlag Publishing Company, 2014[52]
  • “Human Centered Alerting Strategies Supporting Cross Platform Teams of Unmanned Vehicles”. AUVSI Xponential Unmanned Systems Conference, 2019[53]
  • ”A Model of Human Machine Interaction for Mission-Driven Robotics”. AUVSI Xponential Unmanned Systems Conference, 2020[54]

See also

References
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  13. "GTRI Researcher Accepts Senate Resolution Honoring Collegiate Robotics Competition". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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  32. "Human Centered Teaming of Autonomous Battlefield Robotics". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  33. "Human Workload Modeling for Autonomous Ground Vehicles". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  34. "Concepts for Manned Unmanned Teaming Behaviors in Model Based Systems Engineering". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  35. "Human Centered Alerting Strategies Supporting Cross-Platform Teams of Unmanned Vehicles". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  36. "The Unified Multi-Vehicle Control Station A Framework for Supporting the Simultaneous Control of Multiple Heterogenous Vehicles". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  37. "Touch Zone Sizing for Mobile Devices in Military Applications". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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  39. "A_Model of Human Machine Interaction for Mission-Driven Robotics". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  40. "Deputy Director's Certificate for Service". Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  41. "KG4ZIR FCC Station Profile". Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  42. "Cherokee Talk on Grace Radio WPCG-FM 102.9, TLUSA interviews on February 2017 and March 2019". Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  43. "WATC-DT, channel 57 (UHF digital channel 34), "Atlanta Live" interview conducted on September 9, 2020". Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  44. "September 10 at 7:52 AM FaceBook posting by Channel 57 (UHF digital channel 34), Michelson interview conducted on September 9, 2020". Retrieved 2020-10-03.
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  46. "Meet Trail Life USA". Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  47. "International Aerial Robotics Competition". Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  48. "AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2020: Targeted Education". Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  49. "AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2020: Find Your Connections". Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  50. "Concepts for Manned Unmanned Teaming Behaviors in Model Based Systems Engineering". Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  51. "AUTONOMOUS GROUND SYSTEMS (AGS) TECHNICAL SESSION AUGUST 7-9, 2018 - NOVI, MICHIGAN" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-07-03.
  52. Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer Dordrecht. 2014. p. 3022. ISBN 978-90-481-9706-4. "MAVs and Bio-Inspired UAVs" section from pages 1301 - 1439 in Volume 3.
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