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The innovation in this proposed effort is to capitalize on existing knowledge, AME equipment platforms, processes, and working devices to enhance the durability and ruggedness of AME produced products. The extreme temperature variations study and optimization will establish the material and process set to make AME products reliable. We will specifically study the material mismatch between diverse ...

This Phase I SBIR will lead to the development of a bandwidth tailored pump source for high purity photon pair generation. Spontaneous parametric down conversion can be used to generate high purity photon pairs at wavelengths of interest to NASA and the broader scientific community. However, these sources are highly dependent on pulsed pump laser parameters. Traditional pulsed laser sources are la ...

The proposed innovation is a mesh-based graph neural network (GNN) framework for training high-fidelity surrogate models. The models are highly accurate and increase computational efficiency approximately 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than the software which generated the data. This would allow use of previously generated simulations to alleviate High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources, minimi ...

The Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2) proposes to develop high-temperature, high-bandwidth, miniaturized heat flux sensors that are applicable in a variety of environmental conditions such as those encountered in high-speed ground- and flight-test facilities.nbsp;The proposed sensing system addresses a critically unmet measurement need in NASArsquo;s technology portfolio, specifically ...

The Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2), in partnership with AVEC, Inc., proposes to develop advanced phased-array and dynamic pressure sensing instrumentation and processing capabilities for airframe noise source identification. High channel-count, high-density, low cost-per-channel microphone arrays, and ultra-small, ultra-smooth sensing surface, low-cost, instrumentation-grade, model ...

The Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2), in partnership with OptiNav, Inc., proposes to develop advanced phased-array instrumentation and processing capabilities for aircraft engine-inlet measurements. High channel-count, high-density, reduced cost-per-channel microphone arrays, using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) piezoelectric microphones with backside contacts and advanced pac ...

We propose to research, develop, and demonstrate Handler, an autonomous semantic detection, planning, and grasping affordance module capable of fast online inference and adaptation, as well as continuous learning and improvement. Handler will work by combining semantic and primitive pose-recognition algorithms with a rich affordance template library and online grasp-finding algorithms. Uniquely, i ...

This Phase II project aims to prototype a novel technology that can advance the state-of-the-art in high performance space computing.nbsp; The base computer technology, called ldquo;RadPCrdquo;, brings together a suite of fault recovery mechanisms that enable Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to operate reliably in the presence of space radiation that causes si ...

The design and development of a compact, rugged, cost-scalable optical diagnostic for measuring temperatures, species concentrations, and velocities to advance research vital to enabling the next generation of high-speed air platforms is proposed.nbsp;The sensor design overcomes many challenges associated with making measurements in the extreme environments of hypersonic and reactive flows. The sy ...

A comprehensive UTM solution for wildfire operationsnbsp;is proposed based on real-time 3-D visualizations of wildfire management operations that include a common operating picture of participating actors,nbsp;the location and predicted propagation of the wildfire front, and dynamic airspace management capabilities for UAS operatorsnbsp;to define flight intent polygons and deconfliction volumes dy ...