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THIS PROPOSAL OFFERS TO DESIGN AND FABRICATE A UNIVERSAL END-EFFECTOR WHICH CAN PROVIDE TORQUE FEEDBACK WHILE OPENINGOR CLOSING VALVES. THE END-EFFECTOR WOULD BE ESPECIALLY USEFUL IN HAZARDOUS OR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WHERE HUMAN PRESENCE IS PRECLUDED. THE DESIGN WILL BE A MODIFICATION OF A MACHINE RECENTLY INVENTED BY THE PROPOSING FIRM FOR THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, WHICH CAPTURES TORQUE DATA D ...

INADEQUATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TARGET PROBLEM OFTEN LEADS TO INCORRECT REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR PROGRAMMINGPROJECTS, ESPECIALLY FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS. ERRORS ARE DISCOVERED LATE AND COSTLY REVISIONS ENSUE. MODELLING THE PROBLEM DOMAIN WITH FLEXIBLE AND RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE PROTOTYPES CAN LEAD TO PROPER REQUIREMENTS AND SUBSTANTIAL CONSEQUENT SAVINGS.. THUS THERE IS STRONG DEMAND FO ...

MOST TYPICAL PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING ARE BEST ANALYZED BY APPROXIMATING AN OBJECT'S GEOMETRY WITH FINITE ELEMENTS. SELECTING AN APPROPRIATE MESHING STRATEGY FOR A GIVEN SOLID REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FINITE ELEMENT THEORY IN GENERAL, AND ABOUT PACKAGE-SPECIFIC DETAILS IN PARTICULAR. THE ADEPT SYSTEM INTEGRATES A TRADITIONAL SOLIDMODELER WITH AN EXPERT SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DESIGN AND FABRICATE AN INNOVATIVE FINGERTIP-SHAPED TACTILE TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM FOR DEXTEROUS TELEROBOTIC SYSTEMS. THE PRINCIPAL TASKS TO BE PERFORMED ARE: (1) DESIGN OF VARIOUS MINIATURE TACTILE STIMULATOR ELEMENTS AND EVALUATION OF THE ACTUATION STRENGTH, DISPLACEMENT MAGNITUDE, FREQUENCY RESPONSE RANGE, AND THERMAL LOADING CHARACTERISTICS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF ...

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NASA IS CURRENTLY SUPPORTING A VERY PROMISING PROJECT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-POWERED MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM, THE NAVIER-STOKES COMPUTER (NSC). WHILE MULTILEVEL ALGORITHMS ARE BEING STUDIED IN THE NSC ENVIRONMENT FOR SOLVING THE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS THAT ARISE IN DISCRETIZING INCOMPRESSIBLENAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS, NO RESEARCH HAS YET FOCUSED ON LOCAL ADAPTIVE SCHEMES FOR THIS PURPOSE. THIS IS IMPOR ...

THE USE OF IMAGERY FOR THE PRESENTATION OF DATA IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY COMMON. INTEGRATING IMAGE DATA WITH GRAPHIC DATA STRUCTURES AND FEATURE INFORMATION IS VERY DIFFICULT USING TRADITIONAL DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS. SEPARATE IMAGE AND FEATURE INFORMATION DATABASES ARE COMMONLY USED, BUT THE ANALYST IS REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN TWO OR MORE DATABASES AND TO PERFORM INTEGRATION OF THE INFORMATION IN HIS ...

CONAX BUFFALO CORPORATION WILL USE AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL APPROACH, RATHER THAN A RESEARCH LAB APPROACH, TO DEVELOP A DURABLE, FAST-RESPONSE, OPTICAL-FIBER TEMPERATURE SENSOR. SAPPHIRE LIGHT GUIDE SENSORS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED PREVIOUSLY BUT CANNOT PROVIDE EROSION RESISTANCE AND RAPID RESPONSE SIMULTANEOUSLY. CONAX HAS DEVELOPED A PROBE GEOMETRY WHICH WILL PROVIDE BOTH RAPID RESPONSE AND A HA ...

THE PROPOSED WORK AIMS TO DEVELOP NOVEL, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLMS) BY JOINING FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (FLCS), A FAST, LOW-VOLTAGE, LOW-POWER ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIAL, WITH SILICON INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ISC). THE RESULTING SLMS MAY BE EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR OPTICALLY ADDRESSED, HAVE FRAME RATES FROM 10 KHZ (PRESENT) TO 10 MHZ (FUTURE), AND CAN BE USED TO MODULATE OPTICAL ...

IN THE PROPOSED WORK, FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A HIGHLY SENSITIVE AND HIGH SPEED OPTICAL DETECTOR IN THE INFRARED REGION USING A SUPERCONDUCTING WEAK LINK FABRICATED BY LASER INDUCED DEPOSITION OF Y-BA-CU-O THIN FILMS, IS EXAMIED. THE DETECTION PRINCIPLE IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT INCIDENT INFRARED RADIATION PRODUCES A VOLTAGE ACROSS THE JOSEPHSON JUNCTION WHICH CAN SERVE AS A USEFUL DETECTOR OUTP ...