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TAC PROPOSES TO CONDUCT A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS FORWARD-LOOKING AUTONOMOUS SENSORS AND ALGORITHMS FOR TLAM-C. THE CURRENT TLAM-C USES A TERRAIN MAPPING RADAR ALTIMETER AND CORRELATES THE SENSED AREA AT KEY WAYPOINTS WITH A STORED DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF THE TERRAIN AREA AT THE WAYPOINTS TO PROVIDE MID-COURSE AND TERMINAL GUIDANCE CORRECTION TO THE INERTIAL NA ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEVELOPMENTAL EFFORT IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A COMPUTER INTEGRATED ROBOT WORK CELL GAGING FINISHED PARTS OR OTHER ASSEMBLY/MACHINING OPERATIONS. THE FOCUS OF THE RESEARCH IS TO CONTROL THE ROBOT TOOL CONTROL POINT (TCP) THROUGH AN ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM. THE ROLE OF THE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM IS TO CONTROL AND MODIFY THE PATH OF THE TCP TO WIT ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS TO DETERMINE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A THREE DIMENSIONAL VISION BASED PASSIVE OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF GENERATING THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE LOCATION INFORMATION IN REAL TIME AT VIDEO FRAME RATES OF 30 FRAMES PER SECOND. THE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION UNDER INVESTIGATION WILL UTILIZE PARALLEL PROCESSING OF RAW VIDEO INPUT FROM MULTIPLE C ...

THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP ELECTROCHEMICALLY SENSITIVE DETECTORS WHOSE SIGNAL DEPENDS ON THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPED BY ELECTROCHEMICAL OR ENZYMATIC REACTIONS. BIOLOGICALLY SELECTIVE MATERIALS SUCH AS POLYCLONAL OR MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES ARE IMMOBILIZED AT THE ELECTRODE SURFACE. IN THESE PROPOSED BISENSORS THE HIGH SPECIFICITY AND SELECTIVITY OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES ARE COMBINED WITH THE HI ...

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THE ARRHENIUS METHODOLOGY IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTED AS STATE-OF-THE-ART IN THE REALM OF PREDICTING THERMAL LIFE ON NON-METALLIC MATERIALS. APPLICATION OF THE ARRHENIUS METHODOLOGY REQUIRES THE AVAILABILITY OF EMPIRICAL LIFE TESTING DATA, WHICH MAY BE GENERATED FOR A VARIETY OF PHYSICAL/ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES FOR ANY GIVEN MATERIAL. A LARGE QUANTITY OF SUCH DATA HAS BEEN GENERATED BY A MULTITUDE OF SOUR ...

TELY 600,000 COULD BENEFIT FROM A UNIVERSAL WTORS DESIGNED TO BE RETROFIT TO THEIR WHEELCHAIRS. ULTIMATELY, A SUCCESSFUL UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WOULD BE INCORPORATED AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE 200,000 WHEELCHAIRS PRODUCED ANNUALLY IN THE US. ACCESS TO WORLD MARKETS WILL BE POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE PROPOSED CONCEPT WILL MEET OR EXCEED ANTICIPATED INTERNATIONAL WTORS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS IN USE TODAY HAVE AN OSCILLATOR OR WAVEFORM GENERATOR OF SOME SORT. AN OSCILLATOR MAY BE USED SIMPLY AS A SOURCE OR REGULARLY SPACED PULSES, A CLOCK, OR AS THE LOCAL OSCILLATOR IN A RECEIVER. NO MATTER HOW THE OSCILLATOR IS USED IT MUST MAINTAIN ITS FREQUENCY OF OSCILLATION TO A SPECIFIC DEGREE OF ACCURACY. IN A GROWING NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS THESE ...

FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION TO REMAIN A VERSATILE TOOL, NOT LIMITED BY COMPLEX GEOMETRIES OR MATERIAL TYPES, INDUSTRY MUST REFINE THE EXISTING NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES OR DEVELOP NEWER ONES. BECAUSE OF THE RECENT ADVANCES IN HIGHER SENSITIVITY INFRARED DETECTORS, THE AVAILABILITY OF A WIDER SPECTRUM OF OPTICAL MATERIALS, IMPROVEMENTS INFILTERING AND DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES, AND TH ...