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Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), supported by the University of Nevada-Reno (UNR), proposes to develop a passive, high performance heat storage and dissipation technology for high power electronics and directed energy system applications. The proposed technology incorporates heat pipes for acquisition and dissipation of high heat fluxes and metal hydrides for storage of large transient h ...

The proposed SBIR program will develop a thermal bus technology for cooling of the next generation vehicles. The Phase I effort will demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of full or partial insertion of the technology into an Army vehicle platform. Trade studies and conceptual designs will be conducted to quantify the technology benefits. Subscale, proof-of-concept components testing will be co ...

Due to the inefficiencies associated with Directed Energy (DE) weapons, a large amount of waste heat is generated that must be removed quickly to maintain a constant temperature operation. To remove such a high heat flux, an efficient heat transfer device/mechanism and a designer thermo-fluid are necessary. Nanofluids and Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have been developed to increase the thermophys ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop an automated monitoring system for residents living in elder care facilities. This system will enable the facility staff to quickly respond to any event or behavior requiring intervention, such as an accidental fall, using computer vision for tracking and behavior analysis. Prior Phase I research demons ...

This SBIR Phase I proposal will conduct an exploratory study to establish the feasibility of a multimodal framework for monitoring the emotion of a person using an non-intrusive sensor suite that includes video, audio, and thermal sensing. This will lead to the development of a portable gauge for robustly monitoring the emotional state of people in operational environments. The following five dyna ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project will develop a tool for enhancing physical security operations at large facilities using a novel map-centered interface for video surveillance. The interface will incorporate "perceptual filtering" with automatic detection, tracking and behavior analysis of people using computer vision along with user-specified rules. This Monitoring ...

M19 grade silicon steel is the most commonly used soft magnet for a number of applications such as in the manufature of motors. Advanced Materials Corporation proposes to fabricate new, proprietary magnet compositions and bonded magnets employing novel processing techniques. The saturation induction is anticipated to exceed the M19 value by greater than 25%. Magnetic, electrical and mechanical pro ...

AMPAC, under contract to the Navy, has developed a deterministic, software-only Decoy Detection Algorithm, based on a mathematically proven if-and-only-if theorem, which uses mathematical concepts that rely on geometric features (points and lines) to deduce planar qualities - object is 2-dimensional or not. It uses linear algebra on small matrices (~ 20 x 20) and is mathematically exact - limited ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project proposes to develop prototype urine-detecting products based on enzyme-polymerization and chemical sensing technologies for use in nursing homes, daycare establishments and healthcare facilities. These products will include hand-held sensors, sponge wipes, and bedding fabric pads that change color upon exposure to urine. The strict specifi ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to develop a continuously operating water monitoring device for the detection of chemical warfare agents and hazardous chemicals. Prior Phase I work demonstrated the feasibility of this method and resulted in the construction of a bench-top model that could respond rapidly to contamination, that was resistant to environmental and ...