Drones Expert Witnesses
Drones expert witness candidates typically have a background and extensive experience in an engineering discipline (software engineering, electrical engineering), computer science, and/or has specialized knowledge in drone technology. In addition, an expert witness carries the responsibility of providing testimony before the court in a manner whereby a judge and jury can understand the technology and evidence.
The drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), was once prevalently used for military applications, but has now spread into commercial and consumer use including aerial photography, product deliveries, agriculture, policing and surveillance, infrastructure inspections, science, and sport.
Matters requiring drone expert witness work often involve patent infringement or trade secret litigation. A drone expert could also be called in on a product liability case, or to assist law enforcement with surveillance. Expert witness services by drone experts could include expert report preparation, depositions, and/or courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, an attorney may require an expert with prior expert testimony experience. Counsel may also seek a drone industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
Cahn Litigation Services has a vast network of experts and is regularly called upon by law firms to locate drone technology experts to support either a plaintiff or defendant. Whether the case involves:
- thermal imaging (cameras that translate heat into light),
- drone safety,
- FAA regulation,
or any component of a drone, Cahn Litigation Services can identify technologists and professionals to assist. The firm has an earned reputation of providing candidates with the right balance of technical expertise and testimony experience for each unique project.
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Drones Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Drones experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Drones landscape.
Expert Witness #121559
This expert holds a Ph.D. in electronics engineering and control systems and has a very strong background in embedded systems, both hardware and software, which is what the IoT is built upon. This expert has been working on and designing microcontroller based systems for many years. This expert has design experience in digital, analog and RF electronic hardware and understands the hardware aspects of IoT based system. This expert has also designed and developed the software to run many embedded systems, including systems that tied into the internet. This expert is working with the Air Force researching, designing and developing the control of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones). This project involves going from sensor inputs to control of the UAV and coordinating control over wireless networks between multiple UAVs and a ground station. Additionally, this expert is working on a control system for a wheelchair to make it possible for quadriplegics to drive and control the wheelchair through head movement controls. This project involves electronic hardware design of the system, and all the software design and development to go from sensor inputs to control of the chair. The system uses wireless network interfaces to get sensor data from the head to a computer control system and tie in remote computer monitoring. This expert has extensive litigation experience including multiple depositions and trial testimony.
Start Drones Expert SearchExpert Witness #237265
This robotic mapping expert holds a PhD and is an academic professor in an electrical and computer engineering department at a well-regarded technical university, where this expert researches and teaches navigation, communications, and computer system design. This expert supervises a university research center focused on integrated radio navigation and is developing a public safety integration center focused on communications, navigation, and information technologies for public safety applications. This expert's research focuses on the development, testing, and evaluation of GPS and GPS-like navigation systems and projects for civilian and military applications. Before joining academia, this expert spent over 10 years at a major technology and defense company developing embedded computers for guidance, communications, and data processing systems in spaceborne and terrestrial applications.
This expert's PhD dissertation addressed computer architectures for real-time decision making, and the work was part of a research group focused on autonomous mobile robots. This expert was one of the founders of a robotics engineering department at a well-regarded technical university and helped develop requirements for adding graduate degrees to the program. This expert taught early graduate and undergraduate robotics courses focused on foundations of robotics, mobile robot navigation, and planning. This expert's background is in navigation and communications, including the use of sensor data to map unknown and dynamic workspaces and path-planning techniques for achieving goals within those workspaces. The robotics coursework has included use of the Robot Operating System to create distributed systems in which low-level tasks are performed on mobile robots while higher-level tasks are performed on remote computers.
This expert has been involved with projects involving mobile robots, including drones for firefighting and demining applications, autonomous watercraft for sampling and return-to-origin tasks, underwater mobile robots for environmental applications, autonomous sailboats using ROS2, wheeled robots, and bipedal and quadrupedal robots. This expert has also worked on projects requiring maneuvering in office environments, including a modular wheeled platform designed to carry different robotic arms and manipulators.
This expert has considerable litigation experience, including work on invalidity and non-infringement issues dozens of times. This expert has testified in jury trials over 10 times, has been deposed many dozens of times, and has been involved in many IPR and PTAB proceedings, including related depositions. This expert has also provided deposition and courtroom testimony in matters involving location-aware systems combining maps and GPS.
Start Drones Expert SearchExpert Witness #284166
This oil and gas supply management expert founded a consultancy that helps companies, investors, and governments develop resilient, agile, sustainable, and secure supply chains. The consultancy has analyzed contracting procedures for gas pipeline allocations and operations as part of an assessment of the comparability of natural gas marketing, operations, pricing, contracting, and maintenance to their equivalents in oil and coal supply chains, highlighting differences between the industries.
This expert has identified potential sources of discrepancy in measured quantities of resin delivered under a supply contract and suggested the most likely causes of the variances. The product was shipped in bulk and weighed via scales, silos of material were released via calibrated meters, and the manufacturing operation used backflushed quantities of resin to quantify the discrepancies.
This expert led a multi-year project assessing technological, economic, and operational issues affecting the supply of gas and oil. The scope included flowmeters, line pipe, OCTG, valves, compressors, surveillance drones, and other pipeline equipment and services.
This expert has experience creating an oil and gas pipeline study that analyzed competitive dynamics in the oil and gas pipeline market and quantified and forecast pipe needs by pressure, size, and metallurgy, based on a bottom-up database of pipe projects in the United States.
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