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THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF USING A CLUSTER CONTROLLER AND OFF-LINE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR A CLUSTER OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS, PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS AND VISION SYSTEMS IN A FACTORY ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF LOW VOLUME ASSEMBLY. THE FOLLOWING ISSUES WILL BE INVESTIGATED: 1. USE FLEXIBLE TOOLING/GRIPPERS/HANDS FOR ASSEMBLY TASKS USING ROBOT 2. USE OF IEEE 8 ...

INFRARED ABSORING MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE WITH CERTAIN TYPES OF RADAR-ABSORBING MATERIAL. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP AN EFFECTIVE IR COATING WHICH IS TRANSPARENT TO MICROWAVE ENERGY.

THE OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EFFORT WILL INCLUDE THEORETICAL STUDIES RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTILAYER COATINGS FOR WINDOWS OF VARIOUS REFRACTIVE INDICES. ALSO, COATED SAMPLES DEMONSTRATING ANTIREFLECTIVE PROPERTIES AS WELL AS STABILITY TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS WILL BE PROVIDED. THIS EFFORT WILL CONSIST OF UTILIZING THIN FILM COMPUTER DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES TO YIELD OPTIMAL OPTICAL AN ...

THIS IS A PROPOSAL TO THE NAVAL WEAPONS CENTER FOR PREPARING LOW DEFECT DENSITY OPTICAL COATINGS (FEWER THAN 100/CM2, 1 - 10 UM IN SIZE). II-VI INCORPORATED WILL CONSTRUCT A BENT ION-PLATING COATING APPARATUS, PREPARE AND EVALUATE THE COATINGS, AND DELIVER SAMPLES TO THE NAVAL WEAPON CENTER.

THE ISAR PART TASK TRAINER IS A TRAINING SYSTEM WHICH WILL MAINTAIN THE PROFICIENCY OF ISAR OPERATORS IN THE AREA OF IMAGE ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION. THE SYSTEM WILL BE PORTABLE AND SUPPORT MULTI-PLATFORMS. THE SYSTEM WILL BE COMPRISED OF A HIGH RESOLUTION DISPLAY, A VIDEO DISK, MICROPROCESSORS AND OPERATOR ORIENTED INPUT DEVICES.

ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING FABRICS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PERSONNEL WITH RESPECT TO EXPOSURE TO DIRECT FLAME AND YET HAS THE FEEL OF A SOFT TEXTILE IS COMPOSED OF OXIDIZED POLYACRYLONITRILE FIBER (OPF). HOWEVER OPF FABRICS HAVE LACKED SUFFICIENT ABRASION RESISTANCE FOR USE IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING. THE NAVY CLOTHING AND TEXTILE RESEARCH CENTER (Z. KUPFERMAN AND M. ROY) HAS DEMONSTRATED THE OPF FABRI ...

THE FIRST PROJECT OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY THE PRODUCTIVITY ADVANTAGES OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE "KEYBOARD" PROBLEM OF TYPEWRITERS AND COMPUTERS, AND, MOST IMPORTANT, A COMPUTERIZED METHOD OF TEACHING THIS SYSTEM. TWO HANDGRIPS WITH FIVE FINGER ACTUATED SWITCHES ARE USED. THUS, 1,024 (2(10) INDIVIDUAL BINARY COMMANDS ARE AVAILABLE WITHOUT THE HAND MOVEMENTS NEEDED WITH STANDARD KEYBOARD SYSTEMS WHI ...

FASTMAN, INC. IS REQUESTING A PHASE I GRANT TO FUND PART OF THE DEVE LOPMENT COSTS OF A ROBOT CALIBRATION SYSTEM DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY AND LONG-TERM REPEATABILITY OF ROBOTS. OUR SYSTEM WILL IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE PROGRAMMED ROBOTS WHICH ARE USED IN THE GUIDANCE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. THE SYSTEM IS BASED ON A MODELING AND CONTROL TECHNIQUE WHICH IMPROVES THE ACCURA ...

SOME MISSILE INERTIAL GUIDANCE SYSTEMS USE THE MISSILE STRUCTURE AS A HEAT SINK. THE HEAT SINK TEMPERATURE CHANGES DURING THE ELAPSED TIME BETWEEN LAUNCH AND WHEN THE MISSILE BECOMES BALLISTIC. THIS CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE RESULTS IN A CHANGE IN GUIDANCE SYSTEM TEMPERATURE WHICH IN TURN CAUSES TEMPERATURE INDUCED MISALIGNMENTS AND RESULTING NAVIGATION SYSTEM ERRORS. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PROGRAM ...

The importance of traceability throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) has become more evident and prevalent in all areas of system development throughout the DOD and commercial industry. However, current Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools lack several critical traceability capabili their effectiveness. The proposed effort will develop a methodology and corresponding tool ...