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Drone–based assessment of rail grade crossings offers a great potential for rapid assessment of hang-up condition, visual sight line analysis, and crossing infrastructure. Through the Phase I SBIR, a proof-of-concept system was demonstrated at highway-rail crossings near Chelsea, MI with partner review. The collected imagery was processed through 3D photogrammetric software to produce high resol ...

With the introduction of Level 2 (L2) vehicle automation technologies, a core challenge facing drivers is to remain engaged in the driving task and aware of the vehicle environment despite not playing an immediate role in the low-level driving control loop. To overcome this challenge, SoarTech developed DAISY, an innovative vehicle sub-system that maintains internal and external situation awarenes ...

This project aims to achieve trustworthy deep learning (TDL)-based distributed computation among wireless connected Naval devices (sensors, UAVs, mobile phones, ships, etc.) through the seamless integration of cryptography, a complimentary classifier, and communications (C4). Distributed Deep Learning (DDL) runs in a distributed Naval network setting and is vulnerable to attacks that have knowledg ...

The Navy has identified a need for improvements to autonomous behavior of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV), specifically in the Focus Area of classification of encountered surface and subsurface vessels. System Engineering Associates Corporation (SEA CORP) proposes a tailored application of the latest developments in Electronic Warfare (EW) system design to me ...

In order to be able to develop and validate a mixed reality tool for extraction and preservation of expert domain knowledge the information MUST be visible. This requires that the Optical see-through HMD has the ability to maintain a specified contrast ratio of the augmented material in all lighting conditions. This requires a specialized lens, which covers the whole usable region of the field of ...

Soar Technology, Inc. and Northrop Grumman propose AWARE – Perception, a self-aware architecture for improving underwater perception through motion. An unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) equipped with AWARE-Perception learns from experience to accurately perceive its surroundings through judicious use of perception-oriented behavior. Leveraging prior episodic memory and behavioral adaptation deve ...

After Action Review (AAR) systems today are often tied to a particular training or deployment system. This approach is not effective for today’s Navy and Marine missions, which span multiple warfare domains and include many different types of platforms and mission capabilities. Stovepipe technologies require instructors to gather data from many systems to perform an AAR. As a result, effective A ...

There is a need and opportunity for an easily deployable, flexible, high-resolution system that can increase the speed, safety, and ease of evaluating grade crossings wherever they are found. Advancements in the capabilities of unmanned aerial systems (UAS or “drones”), combined with more flexible flight rules from the Federal Aviation Administration have been enabling more widespread testing ...

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 ...