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This project will develop a prototype of GoManage, a self-management app for students with disabilities to choose a target goal, track progress towards that goal, and earn virtual tokens as they go. Participants will include students from Kindergarten to grade 8 who have extensive language support needs (for example, students with autism or an intellectual disability) and less extensive language s ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes the application of a powerful imaging technique, based on the multiphase level set framework, for retrieving shapes, locations and dielectric properties of unknown objects within the building walls. To our knowledge, no other technique can simultaneously retrieves the object shapes, locations and their dielectric properties using measurements collected a ...

This SBIR Phase I project aims to develop an affordable handheld tester to meet the need for real-time, onsite detection of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the air. The handheld tester integrates a novel micro-sized sensor chip with a portable digital meter for direct readout of testing results. The sensor chip is built upon a sensing platform with graphene-tin oxide nanoparticle hybrids as the sensing ma ...

In a nuclear battlefield, rapid, reliable, and accurate mapping of the radiation contamination is critical. The radiation mapping is required to perform threat assessment and, during route clearance, to find the safest path that minimizes radiation exposure to the warfighter. Current detection methods using handheld or vehicle-borne detectors are inefficient, labor-intensive, and often limited to ...

Current state-of-the-art object detection algorithms are almost exclusively based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). These algorithms all require a large amount of labeled examples for each of the object categories they can recognize. These algorithms will fail for novel objects that only very few or even no prior examples are available. These algorithms are also far less accurate when c ...

The blockchain technology offers a distributed security mechanism which is resilient to denial-of-service attacks. Thus, the blockchain constitutes a favorable solution to be utilized to protect mission-critical data during wartime. However, current blockchain systems are not designed to be resilient against large physical attacks such as nuclear or electromagnetic pulse. Also, current Blockchain ...

The project team is developing a prototype of a tool for touch-screen mobile devices to support students in pre-kindergarten to grade 6 who have special communication needs. The product will include artificial intelligence software that will adapt the prompts and cues to the needs of individual students. In the Phase I pilot research, the team will examine whether the prototype functions as planne ...

Measuring individual exposure in real-time can revolutionize air quality monitoring in communities everywhere. Such information would allow citizens to take preventive measures to reduce their exposures to air toxics, which would impact their health and quality of life tremendously. Mobile devices such as smart-phones and tablets represent a powerful infrastructure that could be leveraged to devel ...