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Impaired driving due to alcohol and drugs is a significant public health and safety problem in the U.S. The detection and enforcement of impaired driving laws are key to reducing this problem. Virtual reality training has the potential to support law enforcement officers in obtaining the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively detect impaired drivers. DetectID will be an immersive, accessibl ...

Corvid Technologies, LLC and Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) propose to utilize the results and lessons learned from the Phase I effort to develop and demonstrate a digital human body model capable of quantifying internal stresses and strains in the anatomy and joint loads due to externally applied forces from robotic manipulation. Similar to the approach in Phase I, the proposed approac ...

The COMBAT OXYGENATION DEVICE (COD) is a small, portable device that provides instant oxygenation and CO2 removal for warfighters with battle-compromised lungs on the battlefield, specifically from blast, chemical, and biological attacks, targeting the subsequent Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) which results. This device gently rejuvenates damaged lungs by spraying an oxygenated li ...

WISER Systems, Inc. is a small, woman-owned, disadvantaged business providing best-in-class real-time location systems (RTLS) for nearly any environment. WISER’s RTLS powers applications in aerospace, manufacturing, warehousing, yard management, and many other industries. Unlike GPS-based solutions, WISER’s Redundant Radio Localization and Tracking (RRLT) technology enables autonomous position ...

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common cause of respiratory failure in critically ill patients and is characterized by failure of oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) movement (gas exchange) across the alveolar-capillary membrane. Despite its high mortality rate of 30-50%, there are currently no definitive pharmacologic therapies for ARDS. Thus, there is a pressing requirement ...

Hemorrhagic shock is responsible for over 35% of prehospital traumatic deaths and over 40% of all deaths within the first 24 hours following injury. Multiple intervention strategies are necessary for prolonged prehospital management and improved casualty survivability including improved blood products, hemostatics, damage control resuscitation, as well as therapeutic interventions targeting coagul ...

The purpose of this SBIR topics is to define, demonstrate, develop, and test an Intelligent Patient Simulation software architecture to be used for building intelligent patient simulators that provide realistic medical training experiences, by leveraging natural language processing and advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.

There is growing interest in the use of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) in search-andrescue missions. The need for smart human-robot-interaction (HRI) systems in these application areas becomes critical as deployed robots have to collaborate and cooperate with human rescue teams in fast changing and dynamic environments. In addition to environmental variability, the HRI systems need to ensur ...

Vadum and K9 Helm propose to combine Vadum canine Hearing Protection (HP) technologies (including both passive and active protection modes) with K9 Helm Military Working Dog (MWD) helmet technologies. The K9 Helm products provide several additional functions (beyond HP) including eye protection, muzzle functionality, and mounting points for other sensors. The combined functionality supports freque ...

The management of infection caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is becoming a major clinical challenge due to the rapid evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria. P. aeruginosa is one of the most common gram-negative bacteria implicated in nosocomial infection and the second most common pathogen implicated in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The excessive use of antib ...