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This proposal is to extend into Phase II our development of Novel Techniques for the Synthesis of High Fidelity Social Network Data (SHIELD).Our objective in the SHIELD project is to develop scalable approaches, algorithms and tools to synthesize, validate and employ high fidelity social network data, and to provide these capabilities to researchers and analysts in an integrated, easy-to-use syste ...

Current refrigerant pumping technology lacks the ability to circulate a liquid-vapor mixture with substantial flow resistance, which impedes development and implementation of two-phase cooling technology.Common pump designs will hydro-lock and mechanically fail instantly or suffer performance loss and eventually fail due to cavitation or worn components.Mainstream Engineering Corporation has desig ...

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) across the services need the capability to operate routinely in civil airspace like manned aircraft.Currently, the lack of Sense and Avoid (SAA) technology is the largest obstacle to realizing this capability.The SAA system should autonomously sense air traffic and direct the RPA to avoid the traffic in the same manner as a human pilot.The preceding program demonstr ...

Military personnel often operate within urban, cavernous, foliage covered or indoor environments. In these areas, position navigation and time information becomes difficult and in some cases impossible to deduce from GPS signals alone. Under the proposed effort TRX will develop and implement an Android-based application that delivers GPS-denied navigation and mapping for tactical battlefield use. ...

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) across the services need the capability to operate routinely in civil airspace like manned aircraft. Currently, the lack of Sense and Avoid (SAA) technology is the largest obstacle to realizing this capability. The SAA system should autonomously sense air traffic and direct the RPA to avoid the traffic in the same manner as a human pilot. The preceding program de ...

Hearing loss is the number one disability of soldiers returning from todays battlefield. Issued hearing protection devices are often not worn by soldiers because it can reduce situational awareness through undesired acoustic attenuation. Current passive hearing protection options cannot offer protection against high intensity noise such as gunshots and explosions while allowing users to hear every ...

Social media is an increasingly important way for people to communicate, but interpreting the large and complex social networks that emerge from social media is challenging. A promising approach is to build synthetic networks based on realistic behaviors that mimic the form and structure of real networks, and then infer behaviors that underlie the real networks from the models used to generate the ...

We propose to develop a systematic approach of synthetically generating diverse types of large-scale, dynamic and high fidelity social network data via measurement calibration. Social network research needs access to realistic social media datasets for testing social network theory and developing network algorithms. However, the available social network data are either small, static, or cannot be ...

This Phase II SBIR project will develop a full color, 720P, wide field of view (90), see-through head mounted display (HMD) prototype based on Innovegas eyeborne optic concept. This new eyewear architecture is a radical departure from traditional near eye displays. Rather than presenting the eye with collimated rays of light that appear to originate from a distant source, the performance of the ...

One of the current limitations for mobile robotics walking is efficient actuation. The standard actuation technologies that have been used in mobile robotic platforms are servo-hydraulics, electro-hydraulics and electro-mechanical actuation. The hydraulic options have a high power density and pack well but are very inefficient leading to carrying extra batteries in mobile applications. The elect ...