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72526S03-I Collaboration on experimental nuclear physics projects is international and requires hundreds of participants. Due to the sheer size and complexity of the experiments, a great deal of the experimental planning, equipment design, preparation, and assembly must be carried out prior to the experimental runs. A low cost method for secure remote communications is needed to allow the colla ...

Agents, Agent Architectures and Agent-based applications have become a phenomena in recent years with seemingly everyone jumping on the bandwagon. However, as with any truly revolutionary breakthrough technology, Agents have lacked standards and rulingbodies to govern the direction of the bandwagon in its infancy. While inside this wagon train apparent chaos ruled, but with that chaos came many ...

Radios are required for every spacecraft mission, yet spacecraft radios truly suited for nanosatellites currently do no exist. AeroAstro's proposed Modular S-Band Radio Suite (MSBRS) will solve this problem and make inexpensive spacecraft in the 1 to 30kgclass feasible. In this SBIR program AeroAstro will develop a set of miniature radio modules specifically intended to allow the spacecraft deve ...

72743S03-I Today¿s current inverter technologies for electric and hybrid-electric vehicle systems do not lend themselves well to modularity. The inverter designs tend to be application-specific, which translates into larger inverter sizes and/or increased development cost. Also, the accompanying low volume production of such specialized inverters increases parts cost significantly. This proje ...

73155S03-I Superconducting particle accelerators require high power radio frequency (RF) couplers that have high capital and operational costs. The operational costs include power dissipation at cryogenic temperatures and operational down time. New coupler designs are needed to reduce these costs for particle accelerators that will require even higher RF power than now available. This project ...

73156S03- I Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities are a critical device for present and future particle accelerators in military, research, and industrial applications. The performance of these cavities is limited by field emission, which is controlled by cavity processing techniques. However, currently available processing techniques provide less-than-satisfactory cavity performance, ...

Today, there is no unified, cohesive and effective technology/software to allow warfighters the ability to perform operational tasks in a task-centric collaborative manner. The Agent-based Active Methods environment, powered by distributed agenttechnology, utilizes the latest in GUI Component and Design Pattern methods for creating dynamic process-based composable user interfaces operating over a ...

Existing signal processing algorithms for remote sensing were typically derived, first, by formulating the problem in the context of one of the following: inverse theory (e.g. integral equations, integral transforms, deconvolution), singular valueddecomposition,filter theory, estimation theory, information theory, detection theory, or beamforming; and then, second, by deriving a solution thatmee ...

ObjectVideo and Prof. Jianbo Shi from the University of Pennsylvania propose an automated activity recognition system for video surveillance at night. The deliverable is software that performs real-time threat analysis on incoming video streams and alertssecurity personnel of impending danger. The software will operate on legacy camera systems, including thermal, near-IR, and visible wavelength c ...

73097S03-I In nuclear medicine, commonly employed radiopharmaceuticals generally utilize chelated radioisotopes of metals for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. However, the in vivo kinetic stability of radiometal agents remains a major concern for any new radiopharmaceutical. Endohedral metallofullerenes would have an inherent advantage due to the high stability of the carbon cage and ch ...