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More than 1,300,000 Level 1 commercial vehicle inspections - a safety-critical, time-consuming, often difficult and painstaking process, especially as regards the brake inspection component -- are performed every year in the United States, under all sorts of weather and lighting conditions. The current technology used adds to the complexity and error potential inherent in this important task. In ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an important technology for many DoD and commercial high performance computing applications. A number of supercomputing, workstation, and embedded computing hardware platforms have emerged recently to supply FPGA computing power for these applications. Unfortunately, developing for these platforms is currently a long, difficult and error-prone process. Wh ...

A sweeping and scanning system uses four micro-scale backward wave oscillator (MBWO) sources to cover the 170 - 800 GHz range. The MBWOs use high current density edge emitter cold cathodes to emit a sheet beam over a micromachined slow wave structure. A beam energy homogenizing structure increases efficiency compared with thermionic BWOs and reduces the need for magnetic confinement of the beam ...

The TEXAS Model for Intersection Traffic is a high-quality single-intersection microscopic traffic simulation model developed at The University of Texas at Austin. It analyzes in sub microscopic detail the behavior of driver-vehicle units as they go through an intersection and intermix with other traffic flows. It has detailed intersection geometry, path following, microscopic car following, lan ...

Applied Visions, Inc. (AVI) proposes to develop visualization aids to enhance the situational awareness of information assurance analysts regarding: 1) temporal changes in cyber security events, and 2) the impact of cyber security events (e.g. probes,intrusions) on mission-critical tasks (e.g. ATO generation; preparation of Mission Situation Reports). The visualization aids will operate on a Wind ...

Maliciously constructed boot firmware is a threat to our information infrastructure that has largely been ignored. Boot firmware controls the power-up procedure initializing a computer's hardware and loading its run-time system. This code, embedded inall third-party peripheral devices, can easily be corrupted and then exploited to undermine security engineering at the operating system, protocol, ...

The following program will develop an advanced Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) system design tool that integrates a model-based FMECA methodology with state-of-the-art PHM system strategies directly linked to downstream Life Cycle Costs (LCC). Anautonomous PHM system optimization will seek out recommended PHM system designs based on a cost function that accurately represents key LCC varia ...

We propose to develop a rapid prototyping/manufacturing technology for the direct-write fabrication of optical components, including GRIN (Gradient index of Refraction) lenses up to 6 inches in diameter. We will build a GRIN Lens Printing Platform whichwill utilize a 3D ink-jet printing approach with multiple print heads having fluids of differing refractive index, and we will use this machine to ...