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A bearingless disposable centrifugal blood pump will be developed in this project, together with ainexpensive driver and controller. The rotor of the pump will be suspended by a combination of magnethat it is washed on all surfaces by moving blood. The elimination of bearings and shaft seals removheating and blood stagnation, making such a pump safer and more reliable for short to medium term usp ...

Our objective is to develop a laser welding technique for applications in urologic anastomotic repalaparoscopic procedures in which conventional suturing techniques are difficult. The project is desistrength of welds in a bladder augmentation procedure (enterocystoplasty) under feedback controlledmode to achieve desired preset surface temperature of the tissue favorable to reproducible weld intewi ...

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A low risk, low cost, classical design observation vehicle will be developed for gull launching. The observation vehicle concept is based on a light-weight loitering aircraft, packaged in a "shell" that will enable the aircraft to survive the large acceleration/deceler- ation loads associated with gun launch systems. The shell encasing the observation aircraft and avionics payload is designed to ...

Accurate Automation proposes to design and develop the architecture for an instrumentation system for hypersonic aircraft. We will design an instrumentation system for use in a Mach 8-10 hypersonic testbed for the HyTech engine. We will investigate the feasibility of incorporating a plasma generation capability into this instrumentation system. We will develop an enhanced instrumentation system ...

A special purpose robot to remove corrosion from the interior surfaces of the ductwork in AEDC's Engine Test Facility (ETF) will be designed and developed. The robot willimplemnt the Laser Induced Surface Improvement (LISI) process which alloys the interior surface of the ductwork with a chromimum compound. The system will include a remotely operated robot capable of traversing the ETF ductwork, ...

This project will develop improved sensor fusion of underwater surveillance and fire control related ]data based upon biologically inspired data association and sensor fusion techniques. In this _proposed SBIR, AAC will examine under-sea surveillance requirements for providing contact data hassociation for two or more contacts in the littoral environment. We will analyze biologically-inspired [tec ...

Accurate Automation Corporation will design, develop, demonstrate, and transition by the end of Phase II a new tool, the Precision Logistics Support System (PLSS), which can assist Marine Corps logistics personnel in rapidly generating and refining a logistics / supply plan that will best meet the needs of any specific deployment. The prototype PLSS will be configured for a LAN-connected PC en ...

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