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The objective of this DoT SBIR program is to further establish the technical foundation of low friction HybridSil® Slippery Overturn Automobile Protection (SOAP) coatings on concrete barriers for drastic reductions in vehicle rollover potential and significantly increased concrete impact durability thus, enabling the rapid commercial integration of these coatings. To meet this challenge, NanoSoni ...

According to a survey completed by NCAT in 2019, as part of the NCHRP 20‐07 project, 36 DOTs (out of 43 responded) consider fatigue cracking as the most common failure mode that the agency wants to address. However, in the same survey, 34 of the DOTs also indicated that fatigue cracking test is not required in their mix design specifications. This is primarily because a simple, practical, and ro ...

This SBIR Phase II project will develop biologically inspired computational models and algorithms to enable low-shot and one-shot detectionof objects-of-interest in remote sensing imagery. The Phase II effort will build upon our Phase I work including multi-scale representationlearning framework and deep-learning based feature extraction and matching techniques for low-shot target detection. The P ...

This SBIR Phase-II project will develop novel approaches for unsupervised life-long learning architecture to extract long-term patterns of life from sporadic observations. Novateur will extend the Phase I capabilities to develop an improved biologically inspired framework that models long-term dependencies, learns associations between features from sensory observations and the contexts in which t ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes a probabilistic approach to determine a vehicle’s location using onboard video and Lidar sensors and foundation map data in GPS denied environments. The proposed system does not rely on only one type of information source, instead it combines proposals from a variety of location estimators to find a vehicles location in GPS-denied environments. The system take ...

Curing concrete properly is essential for strength gain and durability. While the importance of curing is widely known, all too often curing is not properly executed in practice. This proposal outlines a sensing system that will have three functions: · to record the weather conditions during the concrete placement. · to document how the implemented curing impacts a known concrete system. · to p ...

Technological Enhancements to Improve and Expand Casual Carpooling in New Corridors 12/05/2016 The overall goal of Phase II of this SBIR project is to demonstrate a working prototype of one or more tools and/or approaches that catalyze casual carpooling in a corridor where it does not exist or to improve casual carpooling in a corridor where it is present but underperforming. Phase II will provi ...

The primary objective of the Improved Geolocation for Over the Horizon Radar (IGOR) Phase II SBIR is to develop and demonstrate a prototype system that processes OTHR radar returns to produce improved geolocation estimates for targets illuminated in the radar’s surveillance region. To accomplish this objective, EXP will enhance the IGOR Deep Learning algorithms developed during Phase I and evalu ...

Innovative and low cost methods for concrete bridge deck assessment are sought to implement in the Long-Term Infrastructure Performance (LTIP) programs. The new evaluation tools and methods to be used especially in field data collection must exhibit certain features such as elimination of traffic lane closures, assessment of bare concrete bridge decks as well as decks with overlay, reduced number ...

To support geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) through exploitation and analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, ARiA will enable segmentation and analysis of SAR imagery by building on prior work with unsupervised and semisupervised deep learning for semantic segmentation and terrain-sensitive automated target recognition (ATR) to develop and enhance FLEET, developed in Phase I as an unsu ...