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THIS PROJECT IS INTENDED TO IDENTIFY MEANS OF EVALUATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS BY CONTRASTING THEIR ACTUAL LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE TO THE LEVEL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED FOR THEM. IN SOME WAYS, THE CONCEPT IS RELATED TO THE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT, WHICH IS A RATIO OF MENTAL AGE TO CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, A COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE NORMS TO THE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE LEVEL. FOLLOWING THIS ...

AT PRESENT THE PROBLEMS OF OBTAINING A LOW COST, HIGH EFFICIENCY LEGGED VEHICLE ARE HAMPERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRULY MOBIL, INTELLIGENT ROBOTS, CAPABLE OF LOCOMOTION SIMILAR TO OR SURPASSING THAT OF HUMANS. THESE ROBOTS COULD IDEALLY BE SUITED FOR USE IN AN ENVIRONMENT TOO HAZARDOUS FOR HUMANS, SUCH AS REACTOR CAVITIES IN THE NUCLEAR PLANTS WHERE LEVEL OF BACKGROUND RADIATION IS EXTREMELY HIGH O ...

ALGORITHMS BASED ON NONLINEAR FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OFFER THE POTENTIAL FOR A NEW GENERATION OF MORE POWERFUL SURVEILLANCE ALGORITHMS. THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURES FOR THEIR COMPUTER IMPLEMENTATION ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS STUDY.

FOUR BEARINGLESS, SHAFT MOUNTED GENERATORS WITH OUTPUTS OF 10, 100, 500 AND 1000 WATTS OF 12-15 V DC WILL BE DESIGNED AND COMPUTER MODELED TO BE DRIVEN BY MODEL AIRPLANE SIZE RECIPROCATING ENGINES. DESIGN COMBINATIONS OF IRONLESS DISK AND IRON LAMINATION CYLINDRICAL GENERATORS USING RARE EARTH AND CERAMIC PERMANENT MAGNETS WILL BE MODELED FOR RELIABILITY WITH THE LOWEST WEIGHT AT THE HIGHEST EFFIC ...

ASE-BASED REASONING (CBR) IS A POWERFUL PARADIGM FOR BUILDING EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH MANY ADVANTAGES OVER OTHER APPROACHES IN TERMS OF TIME AND COST OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING, EASE OF MODIFICATION OF THE SYSTEM, AND ABILITY TO CAPTURE EXPERT KNOWLEDGE IN DOMAINS WHERE STRONG DOMAIN THEORIES DO NOT EXIST. MANY CBR SYSTEMS DO A GOOD JOB OF HANDLING STATIC CASES (I.E., CASES THAT REPRESENT A SINGLE POINT ...

COMPACT SOFTWARE PROPOSES TO DEVELOP PHYSICS-BASED MESFET, HEMT AND HBT MODELS AND THEN INTEGRATE THEM INTO OUR COMMERCIAL MICROWAVE NONLINEAR CIRCUIT SIMULATOR, "MICROWAVE HARMONICA." EXISTING EXTRACTION BASED MODELS SUCH AS THE MODIFIED MATERKA AND CURTICE MODELS ARE BASED ON MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT INFORMATION. THE USE OF PHYSICS OR PROCESS-BASED MODELS COMPLETES THE ANALYSIS CHAIN BY LINKINGPROC ...

JET VAPOR DEPOSITION (JVD) USES SONIC GAS JETS IN "LOW VACUUM" IN A NOVEL APPROACH TO THIN FILM DEPOSITION. IT IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION CAPABILITY IN WHICH REAL TIME MONITORING AND CONTROL OF DEPOSITION RATES WILL BE ESSENTIAL. JVD IS PARTICULARLY POWERFUL FOR DEPOSITION OF MULTICOMPONENT FILMS SUCH AS PZT AND RELATED FERROELECTRICS, FOR WHICH CONTROL OF INDIVIDUAL METAL FLUXES ...

RESONANT ULTRASOUND INSPECTION CAN RAPIDLY FIND CRACKS FLAWS AND TOLERANCE ERRORS IN SOLID STRUCTURES. IN METALLIC BEARINGS, WE HAVE MEASURED SPHERICITY TO 50PPM (.0002 MM IN .5 CM BEARING) AND, IN ADDITION, WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OF FLAWS WITH THE SAME SENSITIVITY. RECENT TESTS BY LANL, USING A JOINT LANL/QUATRO PATENT DISCLOSURE, HAVE INCREASED THIS SENSITIVITY SEVERALFOLD, HOWEVER, ...

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Conventional medium caliber projectiles fall short of desired effectiveness due to factors such as aiming inaccuracy, component manufacturing tolerances, wind effects, etc. A guided projectile that could obviate these factors would substantially improvehit probability, increasing effective range and lethality. Commensurately longer standoff distances also increase warfighter survivability. Furthe ...