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Condition-based maintenance (CBM) has the potential to significantly reduce operating costs through improved equipment management and more informed scheduling of maintenance activities. Sensing hardware can monitor equipment health, apply diagnostic algorithms to evaluate an assets current state, and make projections for how the system will perform if damage is detected and tracked. For maintainer ...

Azure's objective for this topic is to show how a variation of our small SWaP multi-channel spatial DF payload can be developed and fielded within the SWaP constraints of the mast to provide significant improvements to the existing DF capability as well as provide a roadmap for DF through the highest frequencies. This small SWaP payload will leverage existing technologies and in the case of the 50 ...

To induce controlled defects in wire feed E-Beam additive manufacturing for making NDT standards, MER will work with Applied Optimization (AO) to develop a Physics based ICMSE based process model of defect formation which captures the influence of closed loop control parameters of power, build temperature, wire feed rate and deposition path. This model will be verified by experiment on a closed lo ...

The rapid proliferation of wireless communications protocols is accelerating the obsolescence of radio equipment. The RF environment is becoming more complex and increasingly crowded to meet the growing demand for wireless services. A failure of service providers to strictly adhere to common standards complicates matters further. The only way to keep pace is to employ cognitive techniques to contr ...

TDA is proposing to develop a model based technique to automate the verification and validation process of helicopter regime recognition codes in three major steps. In the first step, a list of standardized flight regimes will be developed as this is a pre-requisite for automated verification and validation process, and these may become the recommended standard in the helicopter and HUMS community ...

The robustness and operational flexibility of UAS will be significantly enhanced through the integration of autonomous path-planning algorithms that modify system behavior based on changing mission requirements and environmental factors. Many such algorithms have been developed, but the certification of these algorithms typically involves brute-force testing in high-fidelity simulation, which is a ...

Composite materials have emerged as the materials of choice for increasing the performance and reducing the weight and cost of military aircraft. Nevertheless, manufacture of composite parts still poses numerous difficulties which can result in premature curing, degradation in thin cross-sections, incomplete curing in thick counterparts or build-up of internal stresses. Experimental investigations ...

Accurate and reliable Regime Recognition (RR) algorithms are a key enabling technology for a Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program, which tailors the service profile to individual vehicles and their subsystems based on actual aircraft usage. In general, production RR algorithms with the required accuracy to provide such usage information do not exists yet, in part because of the expense and hu ...

Visual fix sources can be acquired from any optical sensor at any time. Modern submarines are equipped with numerous sensors as part of the Integrated Submarine Imaging System (ISIS), which includes periscope video in the visible (electro-optical, EO) and various infrared (IR) spectra. However, this data is currently not utilized for navigation due to a lack of appropriate tools, yet computer visi ...

Unmanned Autonomous Systems are required to operate in cluttered, unknown, and unstructured environments. Guaranteeing the safety of these systems is critical for their successful deployment. Autonomous vehicles often need to operate near their limits to effectively complete their tasks. Safety of these vehicles needs to be imposed while respecting the constraints imposed by sensory and dynamic li ...