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With the introduction of Level 2 (L2) vehicle automation technologies, a core challenge facing drivers is to remain engaged in the driving task and aware of the vehicle environment despite not playing an immediate role in the low level driving control loop. To overcome this challenge, SoarTech and its partners, UMTRI and Delphi Automotive, propose to develop DAISY, an innovative vehicle sub-system ...

Army infantry Commanders rely on autonomous systems to gain situational awareness about what is around the next building or over the next hill. However, in smaller Army units, the Commander has limited personnel to help plan out and manage these autonomous systems. Tasking autonomous systems requires that the Commander first task the system operators, who then have to translate that intent into lo ...

Degraded visual environment (DVE) presents a challenge for helicopter pilotage, particularly in close proximity to potential hazards such as vegetation, poles, wires, buildings, vehicles, personnel, equipment, nearby terrain, other aircraft, or ship superstructures. To safely negotiate these hazards, the aircrew must maintain a continuous awareness of the environment that can include both static a ...

Physics-based target and background simulations are used extensively by the missile development community for seeker development and testing. Signature Research, Inc. (SGR) proposes to improve the spatial fidelity of the background by adding an important class of clutter objects, features that have near vertical discontinuities in the terrain topography. These features include washes, dry creeks, ...

We propose to identify the algorithms, architectures and performance evaluation criteria for real-time, high-resolution, long-range imaging through atmospheric turbulence. The most promising algorithms will be implemented on a hardware acceleration platform. The end-goal for phase 1 is to develop a complete system design ready to be implemented in hardware for real-time video processing of 2Kx2K v ...

There is a growing need for compact, low cost, high resolution sensor systems capable of operating when poor weather conditions impair existing optical systems. Millimeter-wave (mmW) systems offer an excellent solution to this challenge since they are less vulnerable to these impairments while still providing higher resolution and smaller form factors than lower frequency systems. As silicon-based ...

The objective of this SBIR proposal is to develop a highly reliable and safe laser-based wireless power transmission (LBWPT) system capable of beaming laser power at wavelengths from the near to the mid-infrared over several kilometers to a moving platform from ground, fixed or mobile platforms, or from a moving platform to ground. Successful development of the LBWPT system will provide urgently n ...

In the See-through-the-Sensor Ballistic Wind Measurement SBIR project, BCI will examine the expected performance and integration approach to transition existing modular weather radar processor software technology developed and fielded for the US Navy and US Air Force to the Armys TPQ-50 and TPQ-53 radar systems, with the end-goal of providing high-fidelity weather measurements for use in ballistic ...

Accurate full vehicle performance prediction is essential for designing rotorcraft and supporting flight operations. The computational cost of contemporary CFD methods is hampered by excessive numerical dissipation of vorticity, and common methods fail to predict adequately the unsteady rotor and fuselage loading when engineering/design level grids are employed. Continuum Dynamics, Inc. (CDI), Geo ...

We propose to develop a methodology and supporting tools for assessing and estimating multidimensional fidelity requirements for target and background scenes used in M&S to obtain smart munitions system performance. The overall effort in Phase I will focus on the development of a proof-of-concept demonstration that involves integrating fidelity metrics, development of test imagery, performance ass ...