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A NEED EXISTS TO MONITOR VIBRATION IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES. IT IS DESIRABLE TO MONITOR MANY POINTS ON THE BRIDGE. THE CURRENT PROBLEM IS THAT SENSORS MUST BE WIRED TO A CENTRAL LOCATION. WIRE IS DIFFICULT TO INSTALL AND TO MOVE. THE SOLUTION IS TO COLLECT SENSOR DATA BY RADIO. A SYSTEM EXISTS THAT ELIMINATES WIRE. IT GATHERS SENSOR DATA TO A CENTRAL LOCATION BY RADIO. THE SYSTEM'S UNIQUE FEATURE IS THA ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) is pleased to propose the further design and development of MySidewalk mobile application facilitating the crowd-sourced collection of sidewalk inventory and condition data. The MySidewalk application utilizes advances in social networks and data mining to provide integrated sidewalk datasets. Phase I and II research was facilitated by inputs from City of Colle ...

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) allows for training and deployment of neural networks on encrypted data. Furthermore, HE allows for encryption of neural network model parameters such as weights. Thus, HE provides robustness against both black-box and white-box attacks. In the emerging cloud-based AI environments with edge computing nodes, HE enables privacy-preserving training and deployment of neural ...

We propose a quantum adversarial machine learning (QAML) approach that combines ideas from different classical AML techniques such as Defense-GAN and thermometer-encoding of inputs. We propose an implementation of Defense-GAN on the D-Wave Leap quantum computing environment. We also propose to leverage ideas from quantum information science such as noisy inputs/outputs/parameters to improve the ro ...

The development of a guided hypervelocity projectile (HVP) must surmount a number of significant technical challenges. Texas Research Institute Austin (TRI Austin) proposes to address leading edge/control surface challenges, sabot design, and the sub-projectile issues through the selection of materials, material processes, and component manufacturing methods. TRI Austin has assembled a team of tec ...

Nanohmics proposes to develop a chip-scale inertial measurement unit (IMU) for munitions applications. The miniaturization is key to extreme-G survivability and operation. Models and simulations will provide primary support for the feasibility and a hardware demonstration will provide additional proof-of-concept and improve the program risk assessment prior to a Phase II program.

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COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...

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