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"The challenges associated with surgery are diverse and often subtle. In order for a surgeon to become proficient, a thorough understanding of a wide range of surgical techniques is required. This includes the ability to assess a given situation and takethe appropriate actions. These techniques require fine perceptual motor skills and attention to detail. The difficulty of open surgery notwith ...

The project would design and prototype an integrated set of performance evaluation, workload assessment, and decision support tools for assessing human systems integration (HIS) aspects of US Navy and commercial ship designs. The tools will be used to evaluate reduced manning and automation concepts for new designs. The tools would consist of three software modules. 1. A functional description too ...

21st Century Systems, Inc. (2CSI, formed April 1996) proposes a tool suite which will combat architectural design errors in large-scale, high-assurance systems through systematic and intelligent simulation and modeling of alternate designs. The suite will feature a wide range failure analysis, identification, isolation, correction and management tools, and will make use of many innovative resourc ...

Not Available Current object level change detection (OLCD) methods typically rely on performing differences between detected objects and objects stored in a database. Image Corp, Inc. proposes in this Phase I effort to develop a system dedicated to the joint exploitation of SAR and IR images that significantly improves the performance and application of existing OLCD through the incorporation of ...

SMD proposes the design and fabrication of a two-dimensional APD array. A novel APD array is proposed which requires low bias voltages, thus making it compatible with both CMOS and CCD multiplexer designs. The on-chip CMOS/CCD circuitry will allow for multiplexing of a large number of pixels to a single output. Further, each pixel in the APD array will have its own range detection circuitry allo ...

Scientific Fishery Systems, Inc. (SciFish) recently completed a Phase I SBIR that used neural networks to learn the relationship between temperature and the spectra of broadband returns for a fixed location during a fixed time of the year. This approach relaxes the assumption of the consistency of backscatterers: now we will assume that the backscatter will be consistent at the same location at ...

Our objective is to develop an innovative cognitive knowledge-aided information processing framework to take very high rate intelligence data streams over wide areas and autonomously highlight Areas-of-Interest (AOIs) and targets for the image analyst without a priori knowledge of the area or location of the individual high interest targets. By using 100s of JADE based intelligent agents in Phase ...

"This proposal is submitted to topic area of interest "Area 1: Auxiliary components for balance-of-plant".Mesoscopic Devices proposes to develop a high-pressure air blower that improves power density and efficiency by as much as 50% over competing approaches. Recent advances in fuel cells demonstrate their potential to be the basis for compact and lightweightperson-portable power sources. Howeve ...

Advancements in sensing/COMM abilities of hypersonic platforms is key in enabling the US forces to stay ahead of potential adversaries by increasing operational scope and performance. FIRST RF has, over the years, developed numerous key antenna technologies capable of sustained operation in the hypersonic regime. Key operational capabilities of hypersonic vehicles are closely tied to the thermal l ...

Pattern recognition systems using optical correlation are being developed. The optical correlator is a powerful tool since it simultaneously processes large data arrays. This capability reduces data handling and process control, makes the system less susceptable to obstruction and increases throughput. An optical correlator is also a phase sensitive detector. It can read an optical phase mask ...