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The use of computer modeling in the area of design optimizing has become practical due to recent advances in hardware and software technology. Several sophistcated software tools are avialable for three dimensional modeling and dynamic visual and numeric anaylsis of complex surfaces. This proposal presents a practical and logical approach to utilizing state-of-the-art tools and techniques for ac ...

A very capable team composed of a small business, ThermoAnalytics, with support from a major aerospacecompany, Boeing, and a long time TACOM contractor, MTU/KRC, will develop a Hybrid Electric Vehicle design tool. This team will pursue the research required to develop a practical and useful design tool for the HEV designer. The development of the prototype software will begin in Phase I resulting ...

This proposal describes a computational model of human observers, DYTA(dynamic Target analysis), for dynamic target detection, depth and velocity estimation DYTA will be developed based on human perception knowledge as well as physics of moving vehicles. The computational model consists of two levels of processes, early and cognitive visual processes. At the early visual processes level, DYTA has ...

The military has a strong need for telerobotic fire fighting equipment because the current operating procedure for combating fires in hazardous areas is to deploy humans, but once the fire exceeds a predefined level, the people are removed from the scene and the fire is left to burn its course. There arc two problems with this procedure: first, people are put at risk since the fire fighters might ...

GENERATOR USED PRIMARY POWER SYSTEMS ARE THE ACHILLES HEEL OF TACTICAL COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, FIELD HOSPITALS, AND OTHER TACTICAL SUPPORT FACILITIES. THEY ARE NOISY AND PRONE TO FAILURE AT THE MOST CRITICAL TIMES. TACTICAL POWER USING SYSTEMS HAVE DIFFERENT POWER DUTY CYCLES AND POWER FACTORS. SOME ARE PREDICTABLE; OTHER TOTALLY RANDOM; AND MANY MUST BE DEPENDED UPON IN THE "HEAT OF THE BATT ...

SCOPE PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING CONCEPT FOR THE REALTIME DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF HF EMITTERS AND THEIR PLATFORMS. THIS INVESTIGATION WILL SPECIFICALLY EVALUATE HF EMITTER CHARACTERISTICS AND PHENOMENA OF POTENTIAL INTEREST FOR IDENTIFICATION. SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS WILL BE DEFINED TO EXPLOIT EMITTER AND PLATFORM IDENTIFIABLE SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS ...

As identified in the SBIR announcement, virtual environment technologyhas found widespread use in the military in applications related to the recreation of a photo realistic display. The SBIR announcement further recognizes that a significant need exists for aids in developing skills for managing complex situations which are best addressed at a more abstract level. The current proposal seeks to ...

We propose the development of a pIezoelectric pressure transducer to be used in diesel engines for machine health monitoring and inclusion in an engine combustion control system. Reliability, accuracy. and affordability are the focus of this research since these issues remain the most difficult to overcome for the development of a cost effective pressure transducer. Manutacturing costs of $5.00 ...

THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ESTABLISH THE FEASILBILITY OF SATISFYING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE U.S. ARMY COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONICS COMMAND (CECOM) FOR RAPID AND EFFECTIVE MODELING OF U.S. ARMY COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. THE METHOD WE PROPOSE FOR SATISFYING THESE REQUIREMENTS IS TO ADAPT A TOP-DOWN DESIGN SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS BEING DEVELOPED FOR THE U.S. NAVY TO MODEL-ING OF C ...

Steel containers for munitions are heavy, expensive, and potentially hazardous. TRI/Austin will evaluate the potential for replacing a variety of munitions containers with lightweight, low cost polymer composite materials. Materials will be selected for testing according to TRI/Austin's previous research experience in replacing metallic designs with composite material designs. Cost savings of 50% ...