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Across the nation, school buses drive our kids to and from school, in rural, suburban, and large cities – all having the same problem: safely transporting school children. This proposal calls out (1) there is no school bus V2X solution that exists in any meaningful scalable way today (2) there is no readily available solution to solve for school children being struck during evening hours when vi ...

Founded in 2004, the mission of Wi-Tronix is to improve railway safety, operational efficiency, and service reliability, in real-time. We are the preferred connected solutions provider to over one-third of all locomotives in North America. Wi-Tronix is proposing to leverage our expertise in developing and making commercially available AI based technologies for autonomous highway-rail grade crossin ...

Serial sectioning of microelectronics, as needed for performing destructive, high-resolution reverse engineering and   failure analysis, faces several challenges, due to the ever-growing miniaturization of features of interest. Some of these challenges are as follows: (1) Current methods of delayering require access to multiple pieces of mechanical equipment such as semi-automated polishing mach ...

In energy harvesting applications, consumer electronics, and other power-demanding industrial sectors, energy storage with high power and energy efficiency along with long cycling life are key demands. The goal of this project is to fabricate an innovative MEMS-based hybrid supercapacitor with energy density > 100 µWh/cm2 (one of the greatest values reported for micro-supercapacitors), high poten ...

Across the nation, school buses drive our kids to and from school, in rural, suburban, and large cities – all having the same problem: safely transporting school children. This proposal calls out (1) there is no school bus V2X solution that exists in any meaningful scalable way today (2) there is no readily available solution to solve for school children being struck during evening hours when vi ...

Founded in 2004, the mission of Wi-Tronix is to improve railway safety, operational efficiency, and service reliability, in real-time. We are the preferred connected solutions provider to over one-third of all locomotives in North America. Wi-Tronix is proposing to leverage our expertise in developing and making commercially available AI based technologies for autonomous highway-rail grade crossin ...

Detecting counterfeit electronics is an important area of rising concern for DOD, other federal agencies and the private sector. The advent of cloned chips has called for development of new inspection tools that are capable of inspecting microelectronics down to the nanometer length scale. The state-of-the-art technology in Microscopy currently lacks a one-size-fits-all microelectronics inspection ...

Identification of defects and incipient failures before the breakdown of the equipment is recognized as an important maintenance activity in the railroad industry to improve efficiency and safety of the operation. It is well known that a proper implementation of condition monitoring improves the overall equipment reliability and reduces unexpected field failures. Traction motor faults can result i ...

Sivananthan Laboratories proposes to develop an approach for measuring the temperature of materials with high spatial resolution and temperature accuracy in a scanning transmission electron microscope. The PIs will determine the bulk plasmon resonance using electron energy-loss spectroscopy, which has been demonstrated by the PIs to allow for a spatial resolution of better than 2 nm (when combined ...

The Next Generation Equipment Committee (NGEC) developed a standard for specifying the use of an Ethernet based digital train line (DTL) network to replace the COMM line for passenger trains. These specifications are PRIIA 305‐919 Digital Train Line Hardware and PRIIA 305‐920 Digital Train Line Software. The intent Is to eventually allow for the improvement of passenger train control. DTL spec ...