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In this Phase II project, we will demonstrate a prototype in an operationally-relevant environment for Climatize®, a cloud-based software platform with the novel capability to determine and deliver user-specific thermal comfort information for weather-ready decision-making. People and organizations in a Weather-Ready Nation adapt to weather changes and environmental events with resilience. A chal ...

This effort combines speech analytics, Speed to Text (STT) translation software, and intent inference algorithms in order to assess aviation system safety.nbsp; Each of these components has a different perspective on spotting potential off-nominal and anomalous conditions, for instance, in the way people speak under stress and high workload, the mis-communications and mishearing of key words in a ...

Single-event burnout (SEB) and gate rupturenbsp;occur when high-energy ions strike SiC MOSFET devices in the OFF state. Heavy ion radiation caused irreversible damage (possibly owing to SEGR) at biases below 10% and catastrophic failure at biases below 40% of their nominal blocking voltage in commercial SiC power devices. Commercial SiC MOSFETs degrade fornbsp;latent gate leakage even at 50V drain ...

With the Artemis program, NASA currently plans to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2025, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. The need for oxygen extraction from lunar regolith has been identified by the STMD (Space Technology Mission Directorate). Successful oxygen extraction from the abundant regolith resources would enable extended ...

NASA has identified a clear and pressing need for education of both local decision makers and the local flying and nonflying public to enable AAM operations to commence in a timely manner. The goal of this research effort is to develop a robust and cost-conscious capability to support local organizations and local decision makers with materials that support community education, engagement, and out ...

This program will develop an innovative Augmented Reality Navigation (ARNAV) application to help guide astronauts through important tasks within and about space habitats that require navigation and guidance capabilities. Using advanced vision and inertial processing combined with novel Rapidly-exploring Random Tree* (RRT*) algorithms for path planning and Random Finite Set (RFS)-based localization ...

A gt; 100 A plasma discharge cathode for ionization and neutralization is offered. It will incorporate two breakthrough cathode options. These allow much higher loading, lower temperature, and smaller size than current art. In order to utilize these smaller cathodes, a novel geometry is offered. The bulk of the discharge is moved outside the hollow cathode to a region between the cathode and an or ...

INsight to Diverse Information using Graphs and Ontologies (INDIGO) will allow multiple stakeholders across program roles and engineering disciplines to easily find and visualize information represented in different modeling languages and formats, manipulated with different tools and environments, stored in multiple repositories, and distributed across multiple organizations. By combining descript ...

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have matured to the point where they are being used throughout many modern applications. nbsp;Explainable AI (XAI) ndash; AI in which humans can understand the decisions or predictions made by the AI system ndash; is becoming critical for many applications, including Air Traffic Management (ATM). In contrast, ML-enabled and AI-enabled systems ...

Whether in industry, at home, or in the lab, most fluids handing operations and equipment would fail immediately when directly employed in the microgravity environments of orbiting or coast spacecraft. This is due to the innate assumption of gravity in nearly everything we do, make, and think. Thus, special engineering considerations must be made to account for the large length scale inertial-visc ...