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Surgical simulations aiming to support surgeon practices and medical education have attracted enormous research effort over the last two decades. However, the physical reality, especially on simulating aggregated tissue interaction, is still unsatisfactory. In this proposed work, an open source surgery simulation framework, SoFMIS, will be utilized and enhanced with tissue interaction models to a ...

The proposed work will lead to a body-worn, unobtrusive, rugged, and easy to use sensor kit and analysis software solution that will provide the Navy with reliable absolute workload measures of aircrew in real-world test and evaluation settings. We call this the ACOWL (Absolute Cognitive Work Load) system. The Navy currently has numerous new technologies in its roadmap which could have significant ...

TDA has teamed up with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as its research institution collaborator to address the target STTR topic objective of quantifying the uncertainties in the mechanical behavior of the AM parts. To quantify uncertainties by minimizing both the computational burden and expensive testing and also overcoming the IP concerns, we propose a novel approach with three layered i ...

Foil/air bearings have the benefit of negligible friction and wear once sufficient airflow is obtained; however, during spin up and spin down these bearings are subject to contact with the rotating surfaces upon which they act and thus are subject to frictional losses and wear. Modern air-cycle machines (ACMs) depend on solid lubricant based coating materials such as polyimide coatings to protect ...

Oceanit proposes to develop and demonstrate novel, tailored, designer separator materials with optimized properties to maximize lithium-ion cell/battery performance, life, safety and reliability.

Hepburn and Sons LLC teamed with Florida State University (FSU) Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) propose to develop an affordable, general method for grounding Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) zonal electrical power systems for naval warships. The grounding system concept developed in Phase I will evaluate the incorporation of electric weapons and high power sensors while accounting fo ...

The objective of STTR Topic N16A-T013, Cyber Forensic Tool Kit for Machinery Control, is to develop live digital forensics that, at run time, provide a cyber-protection strategy and aid in identification of malfunctions due to malicious and non-malicious events, while ensuring minimal impact on overall system performance. A proposal has been prepared by TDI Technologies, Inc., a small business bas ...

Cyber security forensic functions depend on highly structured conformance to log formats for generation and transmission capabilities including identity, network time stamps and event message formats. Without this structure there is no effective way to reconstruct the time sequencing patterns that reveal the presence of unauthorized actions and actors inside of a network. Limitations in the capaci ...

Military and civilian agencies can benefit from systems that create 4D, spatio-temporal representations of dynamic scenes for target tracking, law enforcement, crowd control, disaster recovery, etc. Proliferation of imaging sensors such as surveillance cameras, car- and body-mounted cameras, and cell phones, provides the opportunity for reconstructing a dynamic scene in a very inexpensive way. Tod ...

The marine environment is extremely corrosive to turbine engine components due to the large amount of salts from the sea coupled with the fuel impurities and the high temperatures experienced. To cope with future operational requirements, a strong need exists to develop novel, protective coatings to provide environmental protection from hot corrosion and oxidation conditions across a wide range of ...