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Military missions require that the teams of autonomous UAVs to maintain a high degree of coordination to efficiently execute desired missions in environments where mission objectives may be changing in real time and in the presence of pop-up threats, whil

computer vision, robustness, goal-driven autonomy, top-down planning, feedback, value of information, lighting invariance, perspective invariance

Transparent Sky LLC (TSky), with research partner University of Florida (UF), commercialization partner Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI) and development partner Lockheed-Martin Missiles and Fire Control, propose ENSITE, to provide a new framework for HPC at the edge that is particularly suited for ISR environments. Recent HPC advances have moved toward small, low-power embedded devices that can ra ...

With this project, Skinfrared LLC in conjunction with Duke University, aims to develop a reconfigurable hyperspectral imaging system. Hyperspectral imaging systems (HSI) are important for determining the chemical composition of heterogeneous substances of a given scene. They have many applications in both military and civilian ranging from gas and terrain identification to food inspection. Current ...

Hyperspectral sensing represents one of the most useful imaging techniques to collect and process critical target and background signatures across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each pixel represents a spatial coordinate as well as a spectral signature that can be exploited for multiple tactical and commercial applications. Hyperspectral system designs, however, are burdened with a complex trade sp ...

The proposed R&D effort develops techniques for collaborative communications for one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many topologies. Measurements of the RF environment are shared to determine the best role for each node in the network-transmitter, receiver, or sensor. Collaboration provides an ability to extend range as well as an ability to cancel interference. A practical approach is proposed ...

We propose a plan sentinel prototype consisting of three components. The first component is the development of a plan mining tool which identifies and computes false or missing assumptions and deviations to plans and time phased tasks. The second component, the annotated database, computes plans which the plan mining tool access and parses into a logical annotated rule set. Finally, MAVIS, a to ...

This Phase I project has two primary objectives. The first objective is to develop an engineering model of Resonant Tunneling Devices (RTD) to be implemented in AIM-Spice, a commercial software package running under Windows 95/NT. The development of a reliable device model is a prerequisite for the design and production of any semiconductor device technology. The RTD model will be a semi-empiri ...

Arca Systems proposes to initiate the design and development of an intrusion detection system for the GCCS LES (and similar environments). Many current intrusion detection tools are Unix-based, focused on a single host or on a generally homogeneous distributed environment. The notional GCCS LES environment makes extensive use of distributed architecture, using support from the COTS technologies ...

The program objective is to develop novel designs, techniques, and structures to synthesize apertures capable of efficient operation over broad frequency ranges and functions. Conventional apertures are narrowly focused, application specific, and basically single point design. To decrease the cost of antennas, a more universal building block design is required. It would provide a significantly ...