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"In the phase I STTR program, Advanced Ceramics Research designed and fabricated a fully operational prototype SWARM vehicle. A complete video surveillance "payload pod" has been assembled with flight-tested camera and transmission equipment. Nextgeneration hardware and design concepts have been identified. Detailed drawings were developed. The SWARM prototype is now ready for its initial serie ...

"In this program Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (ACR) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will team to combine an error resilient video compression and transmission technology with a new low-cost high-endurance small Unmanned ArielVehicle (UAV). The focus of the program will be to miniaturize the university's hardware implementation of this new technology such that the total pa ...

"The aim of this proposal is to assess the viability of building a prototype UAV Swarm. A successful swarm technology must enable hundreds of air vehicles to act in concert to execute wide-area surveillance or pursuit missions under hard real-timeconstraints. Our vision requires a lean, agile, low cost UAV platform. It also requires a technology for network centric organiation. For example, a ...

"Under the proposed project, Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will team to evaluate the utility of learning methods as applied to sensor management. Reinforcement learning methods suitable to control thesensor network for the discovery of remote Threat Locations and Radio Jamming frequencies (TLRJ) will be developed. In conjunction with RL meth ...

"In this program Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will team to develop and demonstrate a real-time monitoring and fault detection system for a network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's). The goal of theprogram will be to monitor critical network state variables, detect changes and, most importantly, failures and ensure that this information is ...

"We propose to investigate the feasibility of using Avanti's self-aligning kinematic optoelectronic mounts for active 3-D RF/optoelectronic microstructures. We believe the unique benefit of our approach is the precision alignment of optoelectronic devicesfor coupling to the outside world (and layer-to-layer). This unique benefit is coupled with additional benefits of easy manufacturability, direct ...

"The use of agents as synthetic entities is a key technology in the development of next generation simulation based training and performance support systems. In these systems agents must collaborate with humans, communicating through speech. Unlike manyexisting speech technology applications which require only simple sequential dialogs, military domains frequently involve time critical communica ...

"High-performance sintered rare earth magnets are based on intermetallic compounds of SmCo5, Sm2Co17, or Nd2Fe14B. Each of these compounds is intrinsically brittle and can only be shaped by grinding, lapping, and electro-discharge machining (EDM). Evengrinding and lapping these magnets to the required dimensions often results in chipping, cracking, or fracture, leading to production losses rangi ...

"Sandwich panels will be used extensively in topside structure for future Navy ships. One missing piece of technology needed for this application is a robust, easy-to-install method for attaching the myriad of outfitting items required in a ship. The MSCapproach to solving this problem is to design an insert that can transfer pull-out loads directly to the core material. Loading the core removes ...

"SMI and ARL at Penn State will collaborate to develop a real-time, intelligent, hierarchical control system for fault detection, prediction, performance prediction, model validation and real time resource management and system reconfiguration. ThisAutonomous Monitoring and Control System (AMCS) will:¿ Improve the fault detection and prediction in UAV's ;¿ Differentiate between faul ...