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Military personnel often operate within urban, cavernous, foliage covered or indoor environments. In these areas, position navigation and time information becomes difficult and in some cases impossible to deduce from GPS signals alone. Under the proposed effort TRX will develop and implement an Android-based application that delivers GPS-denied navigation and mapping for tactical battlefield use. ...

We propose to develop a systematic approach of synthetically generating diverse types of large-scale, dynamic and high fidelity social network data via measurement calibration. Social network research needs access to realistic social media datasets for testing social network theory and developing network algorithms. However, the available social network data are either small, static, or cannot be ...

This Phase II SBIR project will develop a full color, 720P, wide field of view (90), see-through head mounted display (HMD) prototype based on Innovegas eyeborne optic concept. This new eyewear architecture is a radical departure from traditional near eye displays. Rather than presenting the eye with collimated rays of light that appear to originate from a distant source, the performance of the ...

We propose to continue our extensive research and development effort regarding the demonstration of a high performance GaAs MOSFETs for very high speed low power VLSI applications. We intend to achieve this goal through a program that integrates advancesin MBE materials growth and MOS Device Technology for Compound Semiconductors. Through the course of this work, we expect to change the face of ...

In phase 1, we developed an emitter localization technique based on the fusion of Direction of Arrival (DOA) measurements obtained from two flying small UAS and a terrain map. We have designed novel mini UWB antenna to cover VHF/UHF bands. For hardware, we designed a thin, small size , light weight onboard DOA hardware system with very low power consumption equipped with fast signal capture capabi ...

This Phase II project will extend prototypes and algorithms developed in Phase I for software-based modules for multi-modal command and control of robots using the various sensors and camera hardware on modern handheld devices, i.e. smartphones. Phase I work saw the successful development of new gesture and speech-based control interfaces for driving, manipulation, and surveillance. Phase II work ...

We propose a six month Phase I program to demonstrate the feasibility of growing A1N single crystals to serve as substrates for subsequent A1xGa1xN epitaxy. Our approach is to use a low pressure, high temperature (>>2000oC) furnace with a temperature gradient between the A1N charge and the deposition (seed) regions. Our approach is based on several innovations. These include the use of single prec ...

This proposed effort has the ultimate objective of developing an integrated antenna element design tool -- where structural, thermal and electromagnetic (EM) analyses are applied to a common geometrical model of the antenna. Our basic approach is to utilize a tetrahedral finite-element representation of the antenna as a commn model for the analyses. A user would begin with a canonical or baseline ...

"Next-generation military systems integrating one billion or more transistor-equivalent digital, analog, and high frequency components may be iteratively verified more than 100 times as rapidly by technology developed and evaluated in this project.Specifically FTL Systems extends the VHDL-AMS design language (along with mirrored Verilg-AMS functionality) to include distributed elements (with parti ...

Wavelet techniques, in the form of time-scale or time-frequency analysis, have potential applications in the field of communications. This proposal addresses three research areas to be developed in this discipline. (1) Waveforms constructed of wavelets themselves demonstrate fractal, or multi-scale, properties that can make them useful for data modulation, scale-division multiple access (SDMA) and ...