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krtkl (“critical”) will conduct a Phase I Feasibility Study to identify the best approach for reducing aviator cognitive load by optimizing information delivery and decision-making based on a thorough analysis of existing platforms, sensors, data sources, and onboard compute resources. This information will be used to identify Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based algorithms for p ...

In response to the Navy’s solicitation for soft robotics STEM kits, GreenSight and Florida Atlantic University propose to enhance the existing NSWC Carderock’s SeaJelly project and to ready it for market entry as a complete kit. This jellyfish-inspired robotic platform has demonstrated the capability of captivating young minds with it’s biomimetic movement and form factor. The robot comprise ...

Boston Fusion Corp. and the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory at Rutgers University propose Autonomous Swarming Hierarchies (ASH), a platform-agnostic multi-robot system (MRS) design software suite with three components: 1) a coordination module (CASH) that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning to automatically generate control policies for the robots comprising the system, 2) a networking ...

In this Phase I effort, Tiami, LLC, aims to develop and demonstrate a hardware proof of concept for a collaborative multi-robot system (MRS) that leverages imitative augmented deep reinforcement learning (IADRL) amongst heterogeneous uncrewed systems (robots) to achieve a common task. Collaboration is based on low-latency machine-to-machine wireless links between robots that use both RF and optica ...

Ad Hoc Swarm Modulation and Adaptation focuses on the ability to enable secure cyber communications, data, and distributed AI processing for any robotic swarm in any condition.  The system incorporates a range of multi-robotic system functionality to allow for coordination, cooperation, and reconfigurable methods of robotic teams, flocks, and swarms.  The system further includes methods for swar ...

The Navy operates hundreds of thousands of sensors and datalinks across unattended surface and undersea buoys, surface, undersea, and air vehicles manned and unmanned, and man-portable nodes.  Most of these use low-gain omnidirectional RF antennas for sensing or communications, and these antennas must radiate in all directions to ensure sensor coverage and data links are maintained regardless of ...

This work is focused on the development of fabrication technology for large form-factor scintillation crystals for multi-modal detection of radioactive sources, and development of mobile imaging and mapping instruments based on these large format scintillators.

To compete on the world stage of undersea warfare (USW), the US Navy’s USW systems are frequently updated with advanced capabilities. As a result, modernization trainers need to perform the challenging tasks of updating training material to reflect the new (and obsolete) capabilities. This process requires comparing legacy to updated documentation, identifying changes to system capabilities, and ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, proposes to develop an advanced algorithm suite for data translation across sensing modalities to support the development of automated target recognition and classification algorithms for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. The proposed Deep Diffusion Sensor Translation (DDST) leverages recent advancements in generative ...

Areté and its teaming partner the University of Arizona (UofA) will develop a software tool that transforms sensor and metadata from a given sensor system into realistic synthetic data as if it were collected by a different sensor system. The exponential rise in available data from a multitude of sensor systems has driven commercial and academic entities to achieve significant innovations in arti ...