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Real-time monitoring of traffic conditions is crucial for improving traffic safety and efficiency, and there is an urgent need for the development of in situ traffic sensing & computing technologies leveraging the recent advancements in edge computing. This project will develop an edge computing and sensor fusion system for comprehensive traffic and road conditions data collection and efficient tr ...

Silicon organic hybrid (SOH) EO modulators are a leading potential solution to the limitations of silicon pn junction EO modulators, including poor modulation efficiency, high optical loss, and limited EO bandwidth, which constrain the performance of silicon photonics (SiPh) PICs. In SOH modulators, the tight confinement of optical and RF fields inside the organic EO (OEO) material, combined with ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes to develop and demonstrate simultaneous H2 generation and compression with intermediate-temperature solid-oxide membranes. The innovation is based on a novel cell architecture and materials, and processing techniques recently developed at PCI. Proof of concept testing of the new cell architecture indicated potential to be to be lightweight and presents sev ...

Reliable Vamp;V and testing of fault management (FM) during design, implementation and operations is an essential part of systems engineering design and development of critical space programs such as the SLS, Gateway and Artemis.nbsp;NASArsquo;s Mission and Fault Management group currently utilizes SAM to assess nominal andnbsp;FM algorithms prior to full-scale real-time testing, to proactively ch ...

Qualtech Systems, Inc. (QSI) in collaboration with Dr. Stephen B. Johnson of Dependable Systems Technologies (DST) proposesnbsp;a novel, causal graph-based model and a systematic modeling methodology for assessing damage propagation due to one or multiple originating faults and how the propagation affects and damages other components. In fault propagation, downstream components from the root-cause ...

One of NASArsquo;s major technology needs is to increase system autonomy and resilience. To accomplish this, an important tasknbsp;is to connect fault management (FM)nbsp;to systems engineering (SE) and operations.nbsp;In highly reliable systems there must be some means to detect and respond to failure of those functions. Identifying and allocating the requirements and functions for these capabili ...

Aloft Sensing Inc. (Aloft) proposes to adapt and establish the feasibility of our scalable Radar Vision Systems (RVS) for operation on solar system bodies. RVS consist of state-of-the-art multichannel mm-wave radars coupled with our patent-pending position, navigation, and timing algorithms (AloftPNT). Demonstrated through simulations and field experiments, these systems achieve both accurate self ...

USNC-Tech is proposing a modular radioisotope power system. This system would enable a low-cost flight demonstration of a high efficiency dynamic power system using a low-cost radioisotope and maintaining compatibility with thenbsp;GPHS Pu-238 power source due to its modular design. Co-60nbsp;is routinely produced in 500 W scale quantities needed for a dynamic power system demonstration. While int ...

The Collaborative Tradespace Capability (CTC) prototype proposed by the SSI team is designed to address critical areas of interest to NASA, such as improving model interoperability, managing varying levels of fidelity/uncertainty, and rapidly and iteratively operating across a distributed collaborative environment to characterizenbsp;and selectnbsp;optimum candidates. The goal of the Phase I proje ...

Hybird Space Systems (Hybird) is developing a retrobraking propulsion system, named RT-5X, whose initial application is focused on deorbit of spacecraft in LEO. RT-5X combines the ldquo;smartrdquo; advantages of liquid propulsion (throttleability, restartablility, low impulse bit) with the operational simplicity of solid propulsion (high reliability, low-cost design, storability) in an entirely ld ...