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Efforts to apply active noise and vibration control commercially, while intensifying, continue to be hampered by the cost of the computers required to implement the active algorithms. Currently, the cost of wide-band control is prohibitive for lightly damped systems such as precision structures or highly reverberant acoustic spaces, even if the system has just one canceling actuator and one error ...

The Air Force has identified the need to develop affordable flight control technology to support Air Force Global Engagement objectives. Of particular interest to the Air Force is the development of real-time optimization algorithms for cooperative engagement solutions among Uninhabited Air Vehicles (UAV) in a multiple target environment. DSR proposes developing a real-time, rule based, Cooperat ...

This SBIR Phase I project aims to develop a capacitive energy storage system for UPS applications. The challenge is taken in consideration of the dielectric materials, the design of the capacitor array, and the discharge regulation in the circuit. The innovation emphasizes the development of capacitors with nanostructured dielectrics, in which the discharge process is governed by distributed rel ...

Graphite carbon electrodes have been used as the anode in recently commercialized rechargeable lithium batteries. However, the energy densities achieved to date for secondary lithium batteries have fallen far short of the theoretically attained mark. The specific energy or capacity of the Li-ion system, and for the anode process in particular, the Li intercalation efficiency, and the irreversibl ...

As organizations move toward increased performance measurement and accountability, there is an increasing need to measure job performance at the individual worker level. Traditional assessment tools have been criticized as measuring test taking skills more than job performance skills. A number of approaches have been developed to address this weakness by measuring performance in practical proble ...

A novel, high energy density, aluminum-polymer propellant with ultra-high surface area and the potential for extremely high reaction rates, full utilization of the aluminum material, and an integrated fuel/oxidizer system is proposed. A patented ultra-high speed nanotechnology vacuum process is used to produce the nanolaminate material, which, even in powder form, can have hundreds of very thin a ...

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To field characterize laser systems the laser power, beam divergence, intensity profile and spot size of the laser must be measured with a robust, vibration insensitive system. While some of these parameters can be obtained using conventional components, beam divergence is difficult to measure because of the complexity and vibration sensitivity of typical interferometry based elements. We propos ...

AbTech Corporation proposes to apply its unique Statistical Network ModelingTM technology to develop a non contact prognostic assessment tool that 1) acquires, processes, and analyzes electronic radiated signal data, 2) learns the expected characteristics and patterns of specific radiated signals measured from microelectronic semiconductor devices using AbTech's statistical network modeling techno ...

This project will develop a method for forming and emplacing a horizontal barrier within a groundwater aquifer to prevent downward migration and further contamination of groundwaters by Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (NAPLs). Certain properties of the immiscible liquid system act to form the barrier from injected particulate or colloidal materials and to stabilize the barrier once it is form ...