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In an effort to support the development of a domestic marine aquaculture industry, Zeigler Bros. Inc., (ZBI) proposes to continue its Phase I research by demonstrating the ability to scale up inclusion particle (IP) manufacturing. During Phase II ZBI will also demonstrate the efficacy of IOs for orally delivering phytase and probiotics to marine finfish. These efforts will directly address the p ...

Fully autonomous, taskable robots for use in unconstrained environments are still a dream rather than a reality because of a host of problems, including capabilities of existing sensors, effectors, and control/planning software. Indeed, concepts of operations for robot use are tending toward robots collaborating directly with humans, in relationships similar to bomb squad dogs. Fortunately, enough ...

Development of new short-wave infrared imaging sensors with signal processing electronics on the same substrate is critical for a number of military and commercial applications. The objective of this research is to develop a new generation of Ge-on-Si p-n heterojunction photodiodes that will culminate in a demonstration of a 64 x 64-pixel infrared imaging array. These photodiodes, whose feas ...

The sample support problem in space-time adaptive processing (STAP arises from the requirement to adapt to a changing interference environment where the available wide-sense-stationary sample support is severely limited for direct implementation ofadaptive algorithms. In this proposal by combining several approaches such as (i) forward/backward subaperture-subarray smoothing techniques (ii) alter ...

The objective of this proposal is to investigate a set of software tools that aid researchers (i.e. scientists, inventors, designers, planners, or investors) in solving complex problems over large sets of data. The DiscoveryToolsTM system will provide acustomer-centered approach to computer automation. The customer (i.e. researcher) encodes problem-solving strategies through an easy-to-use graph ...

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We propose to improve and fully develop the innovative cost-effective SiC process technology demonstrated in Phase I to fabricate and commercialize a novel SiC vertical JFET (VJFET) whose feasibility has been firmly demonstrated in Phase I. The innovativeprocess technology and the novel SiC VJFET device structure will make it possible (I) to reduce the high power dissipation of SiC devices from th ...

Based on the successful Phase I development of a SiC inverter for motor control in Phase I, we propose to perform the major R&D work in Phase II and commercialization development in Phase III for an all-SiC inverter capable of high temperature, high powerand high speed control of three phase ac induction motors. In Phase II, we shall increase the inverter power by a factor of 10, increase the PWM ...