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The feasibility of developing a system to provide feedback to manual welders was demonstrated in Phase 1 of the Office of Naval Research STTR Project titled

The objective of this study has been to demonstrate that the Dimensional Management System (DMS) can be successfully used within the shipbuilding industry. The purpose of dimensional management is to improve quality and reduce rework and the overall costof ship production. By using computer simulation, the time required to generate and interpret geometric dimensioning and tolerancing scheme will ...

Apogee Engineering Inc. proposes to R&D a unique process for dehydrating a slurry of10% pelletized nitrocellulose (PNC) in water, ending with a final product of 60% PNCin a n-heptane slurry with a maximum of 0.1% water. The existing process involvesdrying the PNC to dryness in ovens and handling trays of material manually, thenmixing it with very low flash point n-heptane. One can draw their own c ...

Apogee Engineering Inc. proposes to R&D a system for separating partially empty aerosol cans into: empty cans, plastic parts, residual liquid and volatile components.The approved disposal method is collection in steel drums, where one drum full of 150cansis a drum of Excess Hazardous Waste for disposal onshore at costs averaging $2.83/can. Apogee proposes the separated components can be disposed o ...

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 ...

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This project is to develop a design for a wearable operator control interface for man-portable robotic applications. Typically, the controller will guide small, man-packable robots for tactical missions, such as reconnaissance in enclosed spaces likesewer tunnels. In military parlance, it is a

In the DoD, many systems operate in multiple computer networks. Therefore, if a particular computer goes down, disabling the functions it performs, critical systems would be unavailable. If these functions could be moved to another hardware platform, nodisruption of critical services would ensue. Cybernet has a patent for combining an Internet router with an applications-specific execution engi ...