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Active Signal, Moog, and Cornell University propose to develop and demonstrate a full-scale, benchtop-integrated, high-speed digital servovalve for use in adaptive structural control schemes that employ distributed actuation. Today’s servovalves are expensive and low bandwidth because the mechanism and its labor-intensive fabrication processes remain largely unchanged since the product was intr ...

DNA microarray technology, in combination with statistical and predictive modeling tools, could be used to evaluate thousands of genes against distinct gene expression patterns induced by chemical/biological agents to provide early identification and speed therapeutic intervention. The overall objective of this Phase II effort is to leverage existing public domain resources and commercial tools t ...

Insuring the safety and control of littoral waters is problematic because of the difficulties of surveillance. The preferred methods of surveillance in the ocean are acoustic. In littoral waters, acoustic methods fail because noise from the surf and reflections from the shallow bottom convolute acoustic signatures beyond our capacity to discern them. Water absorbs light, reducing the effectiven ...

In phase I, Dot Metrics Technologies demonstrated the feasibility of a new method of introducing deep-green luminescent nanostructure into semiconductor materials for light-emitting device applications. The materials were used to fabricate and characterize preliminary optoelectronic device test structures. In phase II, Dot Metrics Technologies proposes to leverage these new materials and methods i ...

Power generation, power distribution and electric propulsion on ships and aerospace vehicles could be made smaller, lighter, more efficient, more versatile, and lower maintenance by operating these systems—partly or entirely—at cryogenic temperatures. Our goal is to demonstrate the advantages of cryogenic operation in regard to electronic components, specifically semiconductor devices (power d ...

ImageCorp, Inc. proposes to design and develop a deployable video automatic target recognition (ATR) system for vehicle classification and recognition using a single video stream. The system will be built by improving the performance of the existing Phase I prototype system which was based on fusing frame-based decisions made either by a support vector machine or a Hausdorff metric based classifie ...

Building cognitive systems that can interact with real world environments encompasses fields ranging from cognitive science, research artificial intelligence, robotics and control and many other research areas. While significant advances have been made in all of these arenas, the integration of these capabilities into functional cognitive systems remains a significant challenge. Our approach is ...

Under this Phase II program the development, testing and space qualification of a 3-axis, very small and affordable Miniature Reaction Wheel (MRW) system for nanosatellites is proposed. This MRW, a functional hardware and software model of which was developed in Phase I, will provide nanosatellites weighing up to about 50 lbs a zero-momentum, 3-axis attitutde control system of about 0.02 degree po ...

The project will demonstrate a multi-GHz thin-film transistor with multi-micron feature sizes. The inherently defect-tolerant character of the indium arsenide-based materials system supports high mobilities in defect-rich, polycrystalline epitaxial layers. Circuits using the TFTs will eventually be deployable on flexible/conformal substrates extensible to multi-meter^2 and roll-to-roll substrates. ...

The objective of this Phase II project is to demonstrate the engineering feasibility of a high power, unitized, regenerative fuel cell that uses sodium borohydride (NaBH4) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) directly at the fuel cell (FC) electrodes. Such a Regenerative Fuel Cell (RFC) is ideally suited for the demanding Unconventional Space Power requirements set forth by DARPA. The engineering prototyp ...