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A self-pumping water heater is proposed wherein a small portion of the water to be pumped is evaporated in a boiler and used to pressurize and heat the main stream of water. Unlike early slow direct-acting steam pumps, the proposed approach operates at moderate frequencies and is extremely compact. In Phase I, an analytical model describing the dynamics of the process would be formulated, and a pr ...

METAL-PARTICULATE INTERFACES HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE PROPERTIES OF CERAMIC-REINFORCED METAL-MATRIX COMPOSITES. DESIRED INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS ARE ADHERENCE, MECHANICAL TOUGHNESS AND RESISTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL ATTACK. IN TURN, THESE PROPERTIES ARE DICTATED BY SURFACE MORPHOLOGY, CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, SHAPE AND THE PRESENCE OF THIRD PHASES. STEPS MUST BE TAKEN TO CONTROL THE RELEVANT CHARACTE ...

The Aeronix Phase I task will demonstrate the application of an innovative parallel processing computer architecture and parallel processing programing envirorment to a class of problems associated with the real time detection, recognition, acquisition and tracking of multLple objects in a high rate image sensor environment. The Phase I task will examine the problems associated with the multiplici ...

AMERINEX ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAI) IS PROPOSING A PROJECT CALLED TRACS (TOOL FOR RECOGNITION AND AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SOLAR FEATURES) AS A PHASE I SBIR PROJECT IN SOLAR IMAGE PROCESSING. THE TRACS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO FACILITATE THE AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION, ANALYSIS, AND TRACKING, OF SOLAR FEATURES IN DIGITAL IMAGES. THIS PROJECT WILL PRODUCE A SUITE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS THAT WILL AUTOM ...

AN INNOVATIVE ADVANCEMENT IN SCANNING IMPULSE RADAR ARRAY TECHNOLOGY OFFERS A NEW CAPABILITY TO DETECT BURIED METALLIC AND NONMETALLIC MINES. THE SCANNING IMPULSE RADAR ARRAY SYSTEM WILL INCORPORATE ACTIVE CANCELLATION AND POLARIZATION CONTROL TO ENHANCE THE MINE-SOIL INTERFACE TO PERMIT DETECTION. IN PHASE I OF THIS PROGRAM, A CONCEPT FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATION WILL BE CONDUCTED. ADVANCED SIGNAL P ...

A novel plasma spray process allows for a highly metallic filled thermoplastic to be deposited on assorted cloth substrates, to create a flexible EMI construction material. Filler causing the EMI property to occur is dry-mixed into the thermoplastic, and the coating composition is created in situ on the cloth surface. Highly filled coatings are achievable, which previously have been denied due to ...

IT IS PROPOSED TO APPLY AN INNOVATIVE AND REVOLUTIONARY CLASS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO THE PROBLEM OF FRONTEND PROCESSING FOR IR-BASED ATR SYSTEMS. THESE TECHNIQUES OFFER THE POTENTIAL FOR SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND HARDWARE SIZE AND WEIGHT FOR REAL-TIME TARGET DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION. THE PROPOSED APPROACH IS BASED ON EXTENSIVE USE OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILT ...

It is proposed to develop and demonstrate a new signal processing approach for acquiring low contrast military targets in multi-band IR imagery. This new computationally efficient processing methodology has been shown to provide significant better detection/discrimination results in single-band long wave FLIR imagery as well as in the acoustic, SAR and visible optics domains. Atlantic Aerospace ha ...

The objective of this program is to develop non-contact vision sensing and processing schemes that can be used for ceramic and powder metallurgy process monitoring and control. Proposed applications include monitoring of overall shrinkage or differential shrinkage rates during drying of slurries, monitoring dimensional changes,shrinkage and control to final dimensions during sintering, and detecti ...

The objective of this program is to develop advanced image processing/analysis technology for the automatic determination of smoke and obscurant cloud spatial extent and the extraction of relevent features from video images produced by multiple visible and infrared sensors viewing a cloud from different angles. The 2D information is used to quantify the dimensions, volume, centroid, and location o ...