Frank Ehlers

Frank Ehlers is a principal scientist at the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (WTD 71) in Germany. He has worked as a scientist, project manager, program manager or principal scientist in Geman and international research institutes dealing with maritime technology for over 30 years. He has conducted both application-oriented research and more fundamental research in the fields of signal processing, detection, classification, data fusion, coordinated distributed sensor systems and autonomy for maritime scenarios. He is also the editor of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - Design and practice (2020).