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A very capable team composed of a small business, ThermoAnalytics, with support from a major aerospacecompany, Boeing, and a long time TACOM contractor, MTU/KRC, will develop a Hybrid Electric Vehicle design tool. This team will pursue the research required to develop a practical and useful design tool for the HEV designer. The development of the prototype software will begin in Phase I resulting ...

This proposal describes a computational model of human observers, DYTA(dynamic Target analysis), for dynamic target detection, depth and velocity estimation DYTA will be developed based on human perception knowledge as well as physics of moving vehicles. The computational model consists of two levels of processes, early and cognitive visual processes. At the early visual processes level, DYTA has ...

The military has a strong need for telerobotic fire fighting equipment because the current operating procedure for combating fires in hazardous areas is to deploy humans, but once the fire exceeds a predefined level, the people are removed from the scene and the fire is left to burn its course. There arc two problems with this procedure: first, people are put at risk since the fire fighters might ...

The objective of this program is to develop an integrated tribology system for advanced low heat rejection (LHR) diesel engines. The system will consist of a substantially improved high-temperature liquid lubricant, for long life under severe conditions; improved compatible engine tribomaterials; and an on-board sensor arrays for direct monitoring of engine oil condition. Surfaces Research lubri ...

50473-98-I A Light-Directed Programmable Molecular Array Synthesizer--Xeotron Corporation, 1129 Nielsen Court,, #4, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1907; (713) 743-2805 Dr. Xiaochuan Zhou, Principal Investigator Dr. Xiaolian Gao, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82713 Amount: $75,000 This project attacks three major problems with current DNA-chip fabrication: a prohibitively complicated process ...

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE TWOFOLD. FIRST IS TO DEVELOP A DETAILED CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF AN OPERATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS) FOR THE SELECTION OF RAMP PROGRAM PARTS CANDIDATES, AND SECONDLY, TO DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE OF THE MORE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF THE DSS SYSTEM. THE ENVISIONED SYSTEM WILL CONSIST OF AUTOMATED INPUT AND OUTPUT COMMUNICATION LINKS, A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM RESIDENT ...

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The United States military's current doctrine calls for the ability to quickly deploy small units to any place on the globe. The two biggest challenges of this new doctrine are providing the airlift capability for the military's vehicles and overcoming the infrastructure that is incapable of supporting the military's vehicle that is found in many Third-World nations. A new vehicular technology, ba ...

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