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SuperChemVR is a room-scale VR lab and learning game for high school chemistry students. While wearing a VR headset, students will be immersed in a simulated chemistry 3D-environment where they will be challenged to acquire basic lab and safety skills. Through actual, accurate measurement and experimentation, students will improve their understanding of chemistry practices as they learn using scie ...

With this Phase I funding, the project team will develop and test a prototype of D-TECH, a system to determine students' level of academic engagement while completing computer-based learning activities and assessments. The prototype will integrate within existing third party computer-based programs (e.g., online courseware, educational games, simulations, intelligent tutors) and will consist of a ...

_x000D_Currently available biomass heating/cooking stoves in Asia and in the USA do not efficiently cook food or heat houses while consuming too much fuel and emitting pollution, resulting in respiratory illnesses and premature death. ASAT specializes in the development and manufacturing of clean burning biomass stoves. In SBIR Phase I, ASAT developed a low emission, fuel efficient Integrated Heat ...

In this Phase I SBIR, Daniel H. Wagner Associates will construct a high-level, physics-based, probabilistic model of an anti-ballistic missile intercept event, characterizing and integrating various sensor phenomenologies from a probabilistic perspective; and we will develop multi-sensor data fusion techniques to estimate the effectiveness of the engagement. Our approach will emphasize Bayesian in ...

Cybersecurity is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century, as it imposes requirements for automated monitoring of system status and information states in order to achieve operational security. To date there has been limited planning conducted to account for cybersecurity risks in the case of cyber data information capture and analysis. This is especially the case for Modeling a ...

The intent of this program is to develop precision controlled high stroke, high-blocking force actuators that are complaint and can continuously operate to 250C or above for solid-state propulsion control applications. The aim is to develop a new direct drive motion system that eliminates the need for conversion of force from rotary source to linear and then its direction from x-axis to z-axis.The ...

We propose a means of mitigating the effects of radiation damage in long-wave infrared photo-detectors for interceptor systems in near-Earth orbit. Specifically, minority carrier transport in radiation-damaged InAs/GaSb strained-layer superlattice nBn photo detectors will be electrically manipulated to restore photo-detector quantum efficiency after gamma radiation. The method is real-time, remot ...

QuNav proposes to develop a TRansform-domain INS Mechanization and Algorithmic Correction (TRIMAC) in order to improve the accuracy of inertial navigation in the absence of external aids. TRIMAC will implement a transform-domain INS mechanization, which uses an exact analytical solution of underlying inertial differential equations (as opposed to traditionally applied numerical approximations) thu ...

This Phase I SBIR proposal describes the development of a hybrid modeling approach which uses both fast running engineering solutions and high fidelity CFD solutions, to model reentry systems flying at angle of attack. The engineering solution will employ an equivalent body methodology to characterize the enhanced drag and entropy produced by the 3D phenomena. 3D spatial realism will be incorpor ...

Threat signature phenomenology plays an important role in the development of missile defense technologies, both at tactical and strategic levels. However, threats from non-traditional, non-symmetric reentry systems, even spent boosters and flight hardware, have become more acute. Such non-traditional, three-dimensional (3D) systems at high dynamic pressure, high angle of attack often have limite ...