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"When humans move and observe, they combine information from the eyes and inner ears to form a mental world model using perception of linear and angular motion as well as visual images. We propose that recent advances in projective geometry, positionestimates from inertial and magnetic sensors, and rigid body kinematics can be fused to provide a powerful new way of effectively generating complete ...

"The development of a pre-compressor mass injection system for extending the flight Mach number and altitude of conventional military afterburning turbo jet and turbofan engines is proposed. The injection of water and liquid oxidizer such as liquid oxygencan be used to enhance the performance of these engines so that they may power the reusable air-breathing first stage of a space access vehicle. ...

"The OPOC JP8 engines for OAV's planned as a standardized 1.2hp to 12hp family, are two-stroke Compression Ignition engines, consisting of opposed cylinders, each having two opposed pistons. All pistons are connected to a single crankshaft located betweenthe two opposed cylinders by unconventional (long=low friction) connecting rods. Intake and Exhaust ports are located at the ends of the cylinder ...

"The objective of the proposed Phase 1 R&D project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new structural architecture for deployable space structures: Monolithic Elastically Deployable Lattice Structures (MEDLS). MEDLS has the potential to offerorder-of-magnitude reductions in structural mass over current deployable technologies. The architecture incorporates two key features. First, higher tha ...

"Current man portable antennas are heavy, rigid, telescoping or umbrella like contraptions, which limit the mobility and speed of a deployed unit. We propose to improve the weight, storage size, and ease of deployment of a portable antenna through the useof electronic textiles as described in this proposal. Planar antennas have been manufactured on thin films and rolled into position, however a ri ...

"There are human assets with the potential to produce focused information in every area of interest to the intelligence and other communities. The current communication technologies stand ready to provide the backbone upon which ad-hoc, human intelligencenetworks can be built. The challenge is to produce an implementation that does not introduce new infrastructure and allows "lay" members to util ...

"A system and the computational framework is proposed for the real-time video processing of single or multiple video camera feeds from the UAV platform, for the purpose of a computer aided ("pilot assistant") or the fully autonomous planning and executionof aircraft approach and landing procedures. While the system does not require any additional positioning instrumentation on board (e.g. GPS, IMU ...

"Eureka Aerospace proposes to develop bistatic terrain scattering models to be later implemented into bistatic SAR simulator. The models will describe scattering from bare earth and from foliage. All models will cover L-band through Ku-band scattering atarbitrary polarization. The bare earth model will be based on fractal geometry, while the foliage model will be based on scattering from collecti ...

"The ThinGap TM Motors are brush and brushless ironless core, hollow stator / armature motors that exhibits extraordinary power output in a small package. The coils are constructed of non-magnetic, high temperature materials. No magnet wire or ironlaminations are associated with the stator / armature. The freestanding structure of the motor coil has no supporting substrate and is virtually invisib ...

"This proposal focuses on the development of algorithms and methodologies for the acquisition of probabilistic relational knowledge from subject-matter experts with little or no training in knowledge representation and probability theory.The knowledge representation effort today follows two major threads of work. The first one involves the creation of tools for efficiently maintaining and manipula ...