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The production of semi-conductor wafers is a multibillion dollar industry. The 1996 worldwide semiconductor market is estimated at $162 billion with a growth potential to $309 billion by the year 2000. Thus, even a small improvement in control during the manufacturing process could have a large impact on the economic viability of many companies and products. A critical factor in all semiconduct ...

A novel approach for controlling weld bead penetration is proposed. The methodology is distinguished from past techniques by use of: 1) a new and more accurate model of the weld pool dynamic behavior, 2) an improved method of sensing the weld pool oscillations, 3) a more efficient method of weld pool excitation, and 4) a model-based relation of pool dynamics, weld pool geometry, and equipment para ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a Waveform Agile Signal Processor (WASP) to support the next generation of fuzing systems and subsystems. WASP is designed to~provide high performance, waveform agile, adaptive signal processing for a variety of RF and optical fuze sensors. WASP is designed to support pulsed time domain, frequency domain, phase, direct sequen ...

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The proposed project results in removing chromate from paint waste as pure sodium bichromate, and removing strontium as pure strontium sulfate. These two chemicals can be reused and recombined by the paint companies to make new strontium chromate corrosion inhibitor pigments. The key mineral components (strontium and chromate) can be fully recycled. The organic conponents (mainly poly ...

SCHMIDT INSTRUMENTS PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A NOVEL TUNABLE PHOTODETECTOR BASED ON A DOUBLE BARRIER PHOTON ASSISTED RESONANT TUNNELING STRUCTURE. THE DEVICE CAN BE FABRICATED FROM A NUMBER OF SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS DEPENDING ON THE DETECTOR CHARACTERISTICS ONE DESIRES. FOR EXAMPLE, A DETECTOR BASED ON THE GAAS/ALGAAS SYSTEM WOULD BE CAPABLE OF DETECTING PHOTONS WITH ENERGIES THROUGHOUT THE INFRARED SPE ...

Typically, operator interaction with mobile robots has been via standard mouse and keyboard entry using computer workstations. While this suffices for laboratory experiments, it is unmanageable for field deployment of robotics. This is especially true when the operator, and thus the operator console, must go into the field with the robots (i.e., the UGV program). Dragging along a large, cumbers ...

A PIPELINE STRATEGY FOR MAN-MACHINE DECISION MODULES HAS BEEN DEVELOPED. IT HAS HIGHER OVERALL DECISION PERFORMANCE THAN THE SINGLE DECISION MODULE STRATEGY, AND IS MORE COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT THAN THE MULTIPLE MODULE APPROACH. IT PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR CONTROLLED CONSTRUCTION OF ORTHOGONAL DECISION MODULES, AND DIFFERS FROM THE MULTIPLE MODULE APPROACH BECAUSE EACH MODULE ONLY OPERATES ON DA ...

We are proposing to develop Virtual Panoramic Vision Blocks (VPVB) to providing drivers of IVHS sensorized vehicles with a low cost means for gaining full driving situational awareness. This approach combines solid state sensors with advanced display technology and computing to implement an electronic view of the external world. Thus, the term "virtual" comes from the fact that data can be "over l ...

The Virtual Environment Training for Battlefield Medical Personnel (VETBMP) project is the development of a simulation architecture designed to integrate procedural simulations, intelligent tutoring, and various sensory input devices to create a realistic training scenario for 'forward' military personnel. Phase I of VETBMP will be a simulation of a standard medic task (intravenous infusion), emb ...