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Demonstration of a Drone-Based Track Safety Inspection System Using Asset-Based Change Detection
SBC: Noble Drone Services, LLC Topic: 180FR4Today’s prevailing methods of visual track inspection tend to be expensive, disruptive to operations, and have potential to be less thorough than preferred. To help address these issues, machine vision technology emerged in the rail sector over a decade ago; however, the technology has not achieved its expected potential due to the uncontrolled nature of rail environments. Recent findings have s ...
SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of Transportation -
Conformal, Peel-and-Stick Ferrite Waveguide Embedded in Road Striping
SBC: NANOHMICS INC Topic: 190FH1The means to communicate real-time safety information to vehicles on a roadway are currently under development. Early indications show this advanced warning system along roadways would significantly enhance driver safety. However, incorporating such a system on rural highways is a particularly challenging element for the universal deployment of the system due to the vast mileage without the necess ...
SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of Transportation -
Highway Induction Paint to Enable Safety Messaging
SBC: NANOSONIC INC. Topic: 190FH1The objective of this SBIR program is to demonstrate the use of patterned radar‐reflective roadway paint and marking tape to communicate safety messages from roadway infrastructure to vehicles and drivers. NanoSonic will work with transportation engineers in the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and radar design and system engineers in the Virginia Tech Hume Center. Radar‐reflectiv ...
SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of Transportation -
Resilient Wayside Structures to Reduce Severity of Passenger Equipment Collisions
SBC: PROTECTION ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS LLC Topic: 171FR3Additional passenger fatalities/injuries can occur during derailments involving interaction with wayside structures. Analogously, automobile fatalities often result from interaction of vehicles with roadside structures; personnel hazard reduction is a key design criterion for roadside structures. A similar approach for railroad wayside structures can be followed by incorporating damage mitigating ...
SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of Transportation -
Bayesian Assessments and Real-Time Rider Alerting and Cueing for Upcoming Danger Avoidance (BARRACUDA)
SBC: CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. Topic: 151FH3Riding a motorcycle can be a risky activity due to hazards that riders encounter. Some hazards, such as uneven terrain, sand/gravel, and potholes, do not pose a risk to automobiles, but can be dangerous for motorcyclists. However, no motorcycle-specific hazard tracking or alerting systems are currently available for riders. To address this need, Charles River Analytics has designed and demonstrate ...
SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of Transportation -
A Multi-Sensor Hybrid System for Vehicle Classification of Thirteen Classes
SBC: Migma Systems Inc. Topic: 081FH4Image processing methods have been studied and implemented for the vehicle classification over the past decades. The most dominant approach is the use of vehicle dimension, which requires complex processes of sensor calibration as the vehicle dimensions shown in the imagery are heavily dependent on the camera’s field of view. In general, video systems have physical disadvantages related to the ...
SBIR Phase II 2013 Department of Transportation -
Coating Existing Concrete Barriers to Reduce Rollover Potential
SBC: NANOSONIC INC. Topic: 121FH1The 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 ...
SBIR Phase II 2013 Department of Transportation -
Dip and Read Nanosensor for Calcium Ion Measurements in Sea Water
SBC: Polestar Technologies, Inc. Topic: 822RThis topic requires the capability for enabling high sensitivity/high precision measurements of calcium concentrates in seawater. This proposal aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a novel high sensitive nanosensor that can be used to determine very low concentrations of calcium in seawater in the presence of a large background calcium concentration. The sensor approach uses the benefits of nano ...
SBIR Phase II 2013 Department of CommerceNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -
Augmenting Inductive Loop Vehicle Sensor Data with SPAT and GrID (MAP) via Data Fusion
SBC: HARMONIA HOLDINGS GROUP, LLC Topic: 111FH2Our goal is to create a demonstrable software system that we call IntelliFusion, which fuses Connected Vehicle data with data from traditional inductive loop detectors and uses this data to improve traffic control at intersections across the country. Our work will improve the safety of intersections and improve the mobility of traffic through adaptive traffic control which uses data produced by I ...
SBIR Phase II 2013 Department of Transportation -
A Quantitative Non-destructive Residual Stress Assessment Tool for Pipelines
SBC: Generation 2 Materials Technology Llc Topic: 111PH2There exists a wide-range need in both industry and government for quantitative residual stress measurements. Generation 2 Materials Technology LLC (G2MT) will collaborate with partners from industry and government to calibrate and commercialize the eStress system to assess residual stress from mechanical damage and re-rounding. The industrial members, consortiums, and government laboratories who ...
SBIR Phase II 2012 Department of Transportation