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CYTEL proposes to develop a novel system for robust, high performance identification of ground vehicles from acoustic emissions. Hallmarks of this approach include the identification of an optimal wavelet decomposition for use in extracting robust multidimensional features from the acoustic emission. These wavelet-based features will be processed by additional feature post processing algorithms ...

PROJECT SUMMARY TITLE // Advanced Grid-Interactive Load Efficiency (AGILE) PROJECT DIRECTOR // Barham Tanya A INSTITUTION // Community Energy Labs LLC Policies nationwide are targeting rapid adoption of grid-integrated building strategies time-varying electricity prices building electrification and resiliency.But advocates worry that top-down innovation leaves smaller and more vulnerable communiti ...

Systima in collaboration with the University of Washington will develop a high performance, advanced green monopropellant microthruster (0.1?1.0 N) for small- and micro-satellites. The microthruster utilizes a high energy density HAN-based monopropellant AF-M315E, and a novel injection system to maximize thruster performance. The propellant is non-toxic making it easy to store, integrate into mo ...

Systima in collaboration with University of Washington is developing a high performance injection system for advanced green monopropellant AF-M315E micropropulsion systems (0.1 – 1.0 N) for small- and micro-satellites and cubesats (100 kg-500 kg and

Spaceports of the future will utilize new granular materials in unique applications including insulation for cryogenic tanks and Lunar regolith processing for usable resources. New granular insulation materials such as microspheres provide the opportunity to construct and operate safe and energy-efficient cryogenic storage tanks in the future. These materials have been demonstrated in small-scale ...

This project is the last piece of the round timber production puzzle for WholeTrees Structures' SBIR-funded research initiatives: improved selection and grading procedures for round pole timber, building on ASTM visual grading rules for poles and piles, but for structural spanning applications. This research project is based on a solid body of prior work (Wood et al. 1965; Goodman et al. 1981; ...

We propose an advanced GPS solution for software defined radios (SDR) for military users. Different from conventional software GPS receivers that merely mimics what a hardware receiver does, the proposed GPS solution sets forth advanced signal processing techniques along the signal and data processing chain, some of which are difficult, if not impossible, to implement within conventional receiver ...

JChaffee & Associates proposes the development of advanced methods for using GPS with the goal of automating space operations. This includes navigation, attitude determination, and relative positioning from launch through orbital operations and de-orbit. To accompolish this task, a new generation of computational methods for GPS will be applied in a new generation of GPS receivers. The computation ...

AN INNOVATIVE NEW RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE IS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROPOSAL FOR AN ADVANCED GPS RECEIVER DESIGN SUITABLE FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS. THE DESIGN ALLOWS FOR A SINGLE RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE TO BE EASILY ADAPTED FOR A VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS. THE AGR DESIGN PROPOSED INCLUDES THE CAPABILITY FOR HIGH-PRECISION SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION, TRACKING, ATTITUDE DETERMINATION, AND CAN BE EASILY ADAPTED TO IMP ...