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TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STUDIES REQUIRE IN-SERVICE INSPECTION USING NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE) TECHNIQUES FOR FLAW DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION. IN CASES WHERE SUCH DEFECTS ARE SMALL COMPARED WITH THE THICKNESS OF THE SECTION, ULTRASONIC METHODS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST SUITABLE. IT WOULD BE IDEAL TO MAKE SUCH MEASUREMENTS REMOTELY WITH A SYSTEM COMBINING THE STRONG FEATURES OF ULTRASONI ...

1 FOR PRECISE AND FAST TRAJECTORY FOLLOWING BY THE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS THE CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN BASED ON SINGLE-IN-PUT, SINGLE-OUTPUT MODEL FOR EACH JOINT IS NOT ADEQUATE. WE PROPOSE TOTAKE AN APPROACH FOR CONTROLLER DESIGN BASED ON RECENT RESULTS ON INVERTIBILITY AND FUNCTIONAL RE- PRODUCTIBILITY IN MULTIVARIABLE NONLINEAR SYSTEMS. THE CONCEPT OF FUNCTIONAL REPRODUCIBILITY IS RELATED TO THE ABILITY ...

LIGHT WEIGHT, HIGH ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM PRODUCTION IS FEASIBILE WHEN THE ACCELERATION POTENTIAL IS GENERATED FROM AN INDUCTIVE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM. AN INTENSIVE, COPIOUS X-RAY RADIATION SOURCE IS THEREFORE OBTAINABLE SIMULTANEOUSLY THROUGH THE HIGH-CURRENT ELECTRON BEAM AND METAL TARGET INTERACTION. USE OF A PLASMA OPENING SWITCH IS PROPOSED FOR OPENING THE INDUCTIVE CIRCUIT BECAUSE IT I ...

THE INTELLIGENT PROCESSING OF MATERIALS IS A NOVEL CONCEPT IN MATERIALS PROCESSING IN WHICH INFORMATION FROM REAL TIME, IN-SITU MICROSTRUCTURAL SENSORS AND PROCESS MODELS ARE COMBINED WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPROACHES TO CONTROL A MATERIALS PROCESS. THE INSITU SENSORS ARE A KEY TO THIS TECHNOLOGY SINCE INFORMATION ABOUT THE "STATE" OF THE MATERIAL MUST BE ASCERTAINED. THEREFORE, THIS PROPOSA ...

In this Phase II effort AeroAstro will refine and focus the rapid response, modular spacecraft architecture development, SCOUT, begun in Phase I. In Phase I AeroAstro identified several key, enabling technologies that must be matured to realize a responsive space military asset. Plug-and-Sense Connectivity - a software architecture that detects attached modules, communicates module use instruction ...

On the modern battlefield, remote sensing of the environment is critical to the success of a military mission. The currently available sensor deployment tools can be made more effective, through the augmentation of WASPS. Truly responsive, tactical remote sensing includes the capability to deliver a sensor to any location on Earth within hours. Two distinct capabilities are required, a global ...

In our Phase II effort, we propose to investigate the basic concepts required to quickly measure physiological signals, develop an advanced human-computer collaborative system, and design a software developers kit (SDK) that offers system designers precise control over event timing and stimulus characteristics based on a cognitive assessment strategy capable of predicting when the war fighter is b ...

The Phase II SBIR project aims at developing novel approaches for controlling the so-called "non-compressible hemorrhage." The approach would involve formulating a biocompatible magnetic fluid, which would undergo a reversible liquid-solid transition at the site of injury and seal off the broken blood vessel. This would improve the immediate management in the field of combat casualties with minor ...

This Phase II proposal is for the design, development and prototyping of two inexpensive wireless video sensor network systems--an Adaptive Multihop Wireless Wi-Fi Video Network and an Ad-Hoc Mote-Based Wireless Video Network. This proposal is a follow-on to the successful completion of the Phase I contract, which determined that a conventional sensor field employing seismic/acoustic/magnetic se ...

This project will design and demonstrate an integrated all optical vertical array utilizing unique patented Extrinsic Faber-Perot Interferometer (EFPI) based vector sensors.These sensors have already been proven to TRL Level 3 under IR&D and will be tuned and modified for the specific application needs of the Navy sponsor.Based on the relative maturity of the core sensors, the large majority of th ...