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This project is dedicated to the development of an adaptive network security management tool that is analogous to implementing and incident/response paring mechanism on top of a universal remote control facility for a variety of network and security tools, network types and operating systems. Our proposed approach to accomplishing this is to integrate and agent architecture with a Case-Based Reas ...

Mountain Wave, Inc. proposes to investigate the development of an automated network security management product that would allow personnel within an Information Technology (IT) organization to combine information from heterogeneous sources into an integrated application that captures business processes and automates tasks to "prevent" potential security violations. This product will: be "extensib ...

COLDING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION WITH SUBCONTRACT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A COMPLETE ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM FOR BOTH SINGLE MACHINE TOOL AND MACHINING CELLS. THE SYSTEM WILL INCREASE THE PART DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY BY AT LEAST10:1 AND IMPROVE SURFACE FINISH BY 2:1, YET INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY BY 50%, AND BE ABLE TO OPTIMIZE AND BALANCE THE CELL PRODUCT FLOW TO ACHIEV ...

RESPONSIVE AND SENSITIVE FORCE CONTROL IS ESSENTIAL FOR SOPHISTICATED ROBOT TASKS SUCH AS ASSEMBLY AND FINE MANIPULATION. HOWEVER, THIS KIND OF CONTROL IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR MANIPULATORS DRIVEN BY ELECTRIC MOTORS WITH GEARED TRANSMISSIONS, PRIMARILY DUE TO FRICTION IN THE DRIVE TRAIN. YET THESE TYPES OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ARE OFTEN THE MOST PRACTICAL FOR MANY APPLICATIONS. TWO PRIMARY TYPES OF CON ...

THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DEVELOP A FUZZY SET METHODOLOGY FOR UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. FUZZY SET LOGIC WILL BEUSED FOR COLLECTING, QUANTIFYING AND PROPAGATING SUBJECTIVE,ENGINEERING JUDGEMENT USED IN THE UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS. IN PHASE I, FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED APPROACH WILL BE DEMONSTRATED BY APPLYING IT TO SELECTED PARTS OF A PROBABI ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes a novel, proprietary, micromachined, Coriolis-based, mass flowmeter. This flowmeters possesses many desirable features, including: significantly lower cost, direct mass flow measurement, direct fluid density measurement, small sensor size, low power consumption, measurement of low mass flow rates, high sensitivity, high accuracy fa ...

THIS STUDY UNDERTAKES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MILITARY MARKET FOR APPLICATIONS OF AN OXYGEN EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY BEING DEVELOPED BY DARPA AT THE AQUANAUTICS CORPORATION. THE POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS IDENTIFIED THROUGH A LITERATURE SEARCH AND TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS WITH DEVELOPING AGENCIES ARE SUBJECTED TO AN OPERATIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE WHICH APPLICATIONS HAVE ...

A NOVEL CONCEPT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP COATINGS WITH DUAL RADAR AND THERMAL SUPPRESSION CHARACTERISTICS. THE CONCEPT EMPLOYS WELL KNOWN TECHNIQUES USED FOR RADAR ABSORBING COATINGS AND COMBINES THEM WITH TECHNIQUES FOR PRODUCING LOW EMISSIVITY SURFACES IN THE INFRARRED WAVELENGTHS IN A WAY IN WHICH TOTAL COMPATIBILITY IS ASSURED. VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF MATERIALS DEMONSTRATING THE APPROPRIATE PROP ...

DESIGN, SIMULATION, FABRICATION, AND EVALUATION OF A PROTOTYPE VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) DATA ACQUISITION SUBSYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AVAILABLE STATE-OF-THE-ART ONE MICRON CMOS TECHNOLOGY MAY ALLOW INCORPORATION OF MORE THAN 128 CHANNELS OF 24-BIT 300 MHZ COUNTERS INTO A SINGLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT. A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM OF SIMPLE REPEATED CELLS OF COUNTERS, CONTROL AND I/O BUFFERS HAS BEEN DESIGN ...