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The feasibility of developing a system to provide feedback to manual welders was demonstrated in Phase 1 of the Office of Naval Research STTR Project titled

The objective of this study has been to demonstrate that the Dimensional Management System (DMS) can be successfully used within the shipbuilding industry. The purpose of dimensional management is to improve quality and reduce rework and the overall costof ship production. By using computer simulation, the time required to generate and interpret geometric dimensioning and tolerancing scheme will ...

This proposal details the feasibility, design, implementation, risk mitigation, and plan for construction of prototype millimeter-wave, electronically tunable filters. Such a technology can achieve near fixed frequency filter performance while tuning over a respectable bandwidth enabling applications to take advantage of reduced size, weight, and potentially additional bandwidth.

Advanced Sensors Technologies, Inc. (AST) proposes to manufacture and test its DARPA funded Phase I SBIR designs of an integrated microfluidic sensor system with the goal of online, real-time monitoring of biological fluids. The MEMS microfluidic systemincorporates AST's innovative designs for microscopic pumps, values, fluid channels, and sensing chambers. Utilizing AST's mature sensor technologi ...

The Local Space Imaging System (LSIS) proposed here will be capable of continuous, autonomous situational awareness of the local space about a high-value host spacecraft with minimal impact to the host. The LSIS can independently determine instrument inertial attitude and bring a high-resolution imager to bear on a hemispherical field-of-regard. Innovative image processing algorithms will be use ...

We propose the development of an ultrawideband 20-2000 MHz direction finding array for a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) such as the Hunter and Shadow 200. An innovative, miniature broadband conformal aperture is proposed as the array element to minimizereal estate and increase the frequency coverage of the array. The antenna element has a possible bandwidth of greater than 100:1 and its operation ...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and Raman spectroscopy are developing rapidly for chemical and biochemical sensing applications. There is an urgent need for high-sensitivity detectors so as to minimize sample quantity and maximize detection range from the source. In most field-deployable spectrometers, a photo-detector array is used for analyzing the spectral contents. The sensitivitie ...

The Phase I work demonstrated real-time recognition and automatic learning ofgestures used by the Army. The proposed Phase II effort is focused on enhancingthis system by:1.Enhancing the Gesture Recognition System and creating a Software Development Kit(SDK). The gestures to be recognized include the Army gestures developed in thePhase I effort. This system will be integrated with the untagged ...

Today's ground vehicles primarily utilize the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) for positioning and navigation (POS/NAV) which produces moderately accurate results. High accuracy POS/NAV is achieved is achieved using integrated systems that arelarge, heavy, and prohibitively expensive for large-scale deployment. Modern battlefield scenarios would greatly benefit if all ground vehicles coul ...

This project is to develop a design for a wearable operator control interface for man-portable robotic applications. Typically, the controller will guide small, man-packable robots for tactical missions, such as reconnaissance in enclosed spaces likesewer tunnels. In military parlance, it is a