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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SOLID-STATE DIRECTION-INDICATING APPARATUS, WITH TILT-IMMUNITY, THAT PROVIDES AN AUDIBLE OR TACTILE INTERFACE WITH THE USER. REDUCED SIZE TO ALLOW ENCAPSULATION IN A TYPICAL WALKING CANE. A DEVICE WILL BE DESIGNED THAT WILL PROVIDE A VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON WITH AN INDICATION OF HORIZONTAL DIRECTION, WITH RESPECT TO THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD. THE DEVICE WILLALSO SIGNAL ...

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TO COMPARE COSTS AND TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT FIDELITY OPTIONS OF SIMULATORS AND TRAINING REGIMA, A NEED EXISTS FOR A COMPUTERIZED EXPERT SYSTEM WHICH WILL PERMIT INTERROGATION OF THE VARIOUS DETERMINERS. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP THE "ISOPERFORMANCE" MODEL FOR USE BY FAA AND IMPLEMENT IT ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER IN A FULLY UP-AND- RUNNING SOFTWARE PROGRAM. THE KEY TO THE ISOPERFORMANCE APPRO ...

THE PROPOSED PROJECT DEFINES METHODS AND TOOLS FOR SPECIFYING TIMING CONSTRAINTS FOR SOFTWARE WRITTEN IN ADA. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO DEFINE COMPANION METHODS AND TOOLS FOR VERIFYING THAT THOSE CONSTRAINTS ARE MET. ISI PROPOSES TO ANALYZE ARMY REQUIREMENTS FOR TIME CONSTRAINED SOFTWARE. RESULTS WILL BE USED TO DERIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR METHODS WHICH SPECIFY TIME CONSTRAINTS AND VERIFY COMPLIANCE. WE W ...

COMPUTERS ARE WIDELY USED AS WORKSTATIONS IN TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS. THE JOBS ASSOCIATED WITH WORKSTATIONS REMAIN UNAVAILABLE TO MOST OF THE SEVERELY HANDICAPPED POPULATION BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE NORMAL DEXTERITY IN ONE OR BOTH HANDS TO CONTROL THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE OR OTHER POINTING DEVICE. WORKSTATIONS ARE BASED ON AWIDE VARIETY OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PLATFORMS, MAKING MODIFICATION ...

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY IS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING FUNCTIONS SUCH AS FOURIER TRANSORMATION, CORRELATION, AND AMBIGUITY FUNCTION CALCULATION, IN REAL-TIME AT SPEEDS MUCH FASTER THAN THAT OFFERED BY DIGITAL OR OTHER ANALOG PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES. DESPITE RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS OF HIGH SPEED, COMPACT, RUGGED, ACOUSTO-OPTIC CHANNELIZERS AND CORRELATORS, THEIR RESTR ...

PRESENT-DAY SENSORS FOR SMART SUBMUNITIONS ARE LIMITED IN THEIR PERFORMANCE AGAINST COMPLEX BACKGROUNDS, ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, AND COUNTERMEASURES. SCHWARTZ ELECTRO-OPTICS (SEO) PROPOSES TO IMPROVE THE TARGET-DISCRIMINATION EFFECTIVENESS OF SMART SUBMUNITIONS BY COMBINING AN ACTIVE LASER RANGEFINDER AND A PASSIVE IR SENSOR TO REDUCE THE FALSE ALARM RATE UNDER ADVERSE CONDITIONS. THE HYBRID A ...

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