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THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO REDUCE THE SIZE, WEIGHT, AND COST OF THE RELAY OPTICS OF THE AIRCRAFT HEAD UP DISPLAY (HUD), BY REPLACING IT WITH TRANSMISSION HOLOGRAPHIC LENSES. HOLOGRAPHIC LENSES ARE VERY LIGHT AND CAN BE MANUFACTURED AT VERY LOW COSTS. APPLICATIONS OF HOLOGRAPHIC LENSES TO HUD WERE LIMITED IN THE PAST, DUE TO WIDE SPECTRAL BAND OF THE HUD - CATHODE RAY TUBE (CRT). HO ...

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ACETYLENE-TERMINATED RESINS ARE ONE OF SEVERAL CANDIDATE POLYMERIC MATERIALS BEING DEVELOPED FOR POTENTIAL AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS. THE ACETYLENE-TERMINATED RESINS POSSESS PROPERTIES REQUIRED FOR THE PROPOSED APPLICATIONS SUCH AS TEMPERATURE, MOISTURE, AND SHEAR INSENSITIVITY. THE LIMITING FACTOR FOR THE COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURE OF THESE RESINS IN A COST-EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF AN ESSEN ...

THERE ARE MANY MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS WHERE VERY HIGH SPEED AND HIGH RESOLUTION SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTING, IMAGE PROCESSING AND VISION SYSTEMS ARE DESIRABLE. CURRENT SYSTEMS ARE SEVERELY LIMITED BY DEVICES THAT REQUIRE RELATIVELY LONG TIMES TO GET INFORMATION INTO AND OUT OF THE SYSTEM. APPLICATIONS SUCH AS SURVEILLANCE, TRACKING, PROCESS MONITORING, QUALITY CONTROL AND MANY OTHER ...

THIS PROPOSAL WILL DETERMINE THE MERIT AND FEASIBILITY OF A RECOMMENDED METHODOLOGIES (WHICH BEST LINK THE ADA DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT, WITH THE RAPID PROTOTYPING DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ASSOCIATED WITH AI APPLICATIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN EITHER LISP OR PROLOG LANGUAGE) BY MAPPING BETWEEN APSE AND ASE AND THE MAPPING OF THE SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT INTO THE ADA SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT. THE SECOND SUB-PROBLEM I ...

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THIS PROPOSAL DETAILS A DEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHICH WILL DEMONSTRATE FEASIBILITY OF A POWER-AUGMENTED EXOSKELETON. AN EXOSKELETON IS A JOINTED, EXTERNAL FRAMEWORK WORN BY A USER. FORCE SENSORS DETECT USER MOVEMENTS AND, THROUGH MODERN FEEDBACK CONTROL TECHNIQUES, POWER THE EXOSKELETON LIMBS. A USER'S STRENGTH CAN THUS BE MAGNIFIED THREE OR FIVE TIMES WITHOUT LOSS OF DEXTERITY OR SPEED. THE PROJECT I ...

ABSTRACT: An ability to reduce the weight of cables has the potential to provide significant cost savings, reduce maintenance and improve reliability of satellites. The costs of developing and producing satellites are linearly proportional with the satellite"s weight, with each kilogram costing around $1 million when delivery-to-space costs are included. With global satellite launches expected to ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) compliant GPS receiver for Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) applications. In this proposal, we explore an approach to design the GEO GPS SAASM receiver based on improved techniques for signal acquisition (or detection) and then signal tracking (and demodulation) of weak GPS signals. GPS signals availa ...

ABSTRACT:Emergence and feasibility for flexible body-worn electronics and particularly medical patches requires high performance electronics capability.The problem is that these new technologies must have flexible and conformal physical formats and conventional electronic components are not in any way flexible. In the CLAS Phase I program, a new flexible high-performance manufacturing and material ...