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aCADian Inc. proposes to develop a user friendly, extensible, integrated CAD environment for the design and simulation of Photonic Integrated Circuits. It will provide a high-productivity photonic layout capability, seamless integration with lightwave simulation packages. The software will be designed from the ground up to deal with the specifics of integrated optical circuits. It will incorpo ...

The small spacecraft power system proposed in this program provides significant advantages over state-of-the-art systems including: (1) use of a high efficiency (25%-35%) AMTEC, static power conversion system, (2) reduced planform area, and vulnerability, (3) mass efficient phase change material for thermal energy storage during solar eclipse periods, (4) high reliability with no vibration, (5) si ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS SBIR PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW, SOLID STATE IMMUNOSENSOR WITH CAPABILITIES FOR USE IN HOMES,FARMS, FACTORIES AND OFFICES FOR ON-SITE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF HORMONES, DRUGS AND TOXINS IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS SUCH AS PLASMA, SALIVA, AND URINE. THE PRINCIPLE OF DETECTION WILL BE BASED ON AN ENZYME-AMPLIFIED, IMMUNOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLID STATE DETECTOR THAT CAN BE COUPLED TO ...

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BONN Corporation (BONN) has chosen to concentrate on a methodology that computes an optimal target search in near-real-time, with the capability of accommodating user-definable optimality based upon time / pathlength, probability of target detection target value, and survivability in a dense threat environment. This methodology will be extensible to address multiple airborne platforms and multipl ...

ALONG WITH TREMENDOUS ADVANCES IN THE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING GRAPHICAL AND HEADS-UP DISPLAYS COMES A DIZZYING ARRAY OF OPTIONS FOR THE DISPLAY OF COMPLEX STATIC AND DYNAMIC INFORMATION TO PILOTS IN MODERN AIRCRAFT. TO DATE, RESEARCH ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GRAPHICAL DISPLAY FORMATS AS AIDS TO DECISION-MAKING AND MONITORING HAS BEEN LARGELY EQUIVOCAL (JARVENPAA AND DICKSON, 1988) (SANDERSON, FLACK, ...

TO CONSTRUCT AN EMULATION CAPABILITY FOR EXISTING OR PLANNED ROBOTIC COMMAND CENTERS (RCCS) WE PROPOSE TO APPLY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED FOR SIMULATION AND CONTROL OF TELEOPERATED SERVICING ROBOTIC SYSTEMS TO THE PROBLEM. AS PART OF A COLLABORATION WITH IN THE CENTER FOR AUTONOMOUS AND MAN-CONTROLLED ROBOTIC AND SENSING SYSTEMS, A NASA SPONSORED CENTER FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE AUTOMATION AN ...

Many man-machine interface features of the modern unmanned ground vehicle control station require sophisiticated trade-offs be made. For instance, the need to transmit video information from a vehicle for teleoperation greatly exceeds the current capability of military radios to transmit this information. The remote operator needs advanced video compression techniques to support low data rate and ...

We propose developing a virtual reality environment for the testing of real and virtual equipment. The proposed testbed will leverage Cybernet's experience in building high performance robotic tactile feedback devices, combined with head-mount graphics generation and 3D-audio, to provide a standard VR environment for testing and evaluation of virtual and real prototype military equipment, compone ...