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VORAGO Technologies has created a product design and MIL-PRF-38534 qualification plan for a radiation-hardened miniaturized System-In-Package (SIP) that comprises an ARM® Cortex®-M0 microcontroller (VORAGO VA10820), a 16-channel 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (Cobham RHD5950) and a 2Mbit FRAM (Cypress CYRS15B102). All the design work and planning has been put in place to produce working pac ...

The primary objective of this effort is to design and build a practical millimeter wave imaging system capable of effectively addressing a myriad of nondestructive inspection issues related to complex composites and structures during manufacturing and use. The design of this imaging system will be founded on a long history and extensive experience by the proposing team facilitating and ensuring a ...

Modern water vapor differential absorption lidar (WV-DIAL) uses a single frequency distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser diode to seed a pulsed semiconductor amplifier. To meet the demand of these advanced instruments, the development of DBR lasers at multiple wavelengths in the 700-950nm region is required. Current DIAL systems use free-space lasers that require bulk optics and are subject to m ...

The innovation proposed is a method for the fabrication of a very low cost, very light weight large apertureAl10SiMg aluminum alloy mirror by the combination of three manufacturing processes. 1. Additivelymanufactured mirror substrates as demonstrated in previous Phase 1 NASA SBIR S2.03-9125 with 0.2 mmcontour accuracy. 2. Precision robotic welding of hexagonal on-axis and hexagonal off-axis segme ...

Phase II effort will focus on enhancements to CurveMesh, interfacing with geometry through Project Geode and enabling surface splining of discrete geometry in a commercial mesh tool using SLUGS. CurveMesh will be modified to enable mixed order meshes and h-p adaptation in a parallel computing environment. A demonstration of the h-p adaption will be performed by loosely coupling CurveMesh with FUNS ...

Over previous Phase I, II, and III NASA SBIR projects, TRACLabs has created a software toolkit forprogramming and controlling humanoid robots and other mobile manipulators. This open-source toolkit,called the CaRtesian-based AFfordance Template Suite for MANipulation (or CRAFTSMAN), incorporatesstate-of-the-art motion generation techniques along with principles of user interface design and softwar ...

There is a disconnect between the mission operation languages used by various NASA robots and by flight controllers or crew members. This disconnect unduly burdens mission operators, as it requires the involvement of expert robot programmers to define each activity. To eliminate this burden, we propose that robots in space (whether autonomous or remotely commanded by humans) should be commanded us ...

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