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ABSTRACT: Interest in tracking human movement has been motivated by the wide array of its applications in health care, military training, sports, and entertainment. Currently, there is no single motion capture technology that is perfect for every possible use. The most common method of tracking movement is based on optical motion analysis systems. However, these systems are costly, not portable, ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Depression dementia schizophrenia substance abuse developmental disorders and speech related disabilities can feature impairments in the ability to express emotions Development of treatments for these impairments presents a formidable challenge In this regard several researchers who study rodent models of mental illness have more recently focused upon t ...

ABSTRACT: Research Objectives: 1) Quantify the size, weight, power consumption and cost of flight units of the Space-based InfraRed Imaging Interferometer (SIRII) sensor. 2) Quantify the fundamental advantages of the interferometric approach in comparison to conventional sensor design. 3) Quantify the impact of disadvantages of the interferometer. 4) Establish the steps required to mature the des ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR Phase II collaboration between Purdue University and bioVidria Inc is to commercialize disruptive new technology for protein chromatography and then maximize its impact by serving the fastest growing segment of the pharmaceutical industry protein drugs The product is a reversed phase chromatography column that uses silica particles of ...

Few-cycle mid-infrared lasers are highly demanded for a variety of practical applications. NP Photonics and University of Arizona propose to develop a wavelength tunable and power-scalable optical parametric laser system at 8-12 micron capable of producing collimated few-cycle pulses with pulse energy>100 microJoule. In this phase I program, we will design the whole laser system and do a feasibil ...

ABSTRACT: The Phase II technical objectives follow directly from the Phase I effort, where all tasks necessary for RF photonic receiver fabrication were demonstrated. The Phase II effort will pursue two major objectives: 1) further development of SEO100 EO polymer based chips, packaged devices and arrays in collaboration with University of Dayton (antenna designs), taking advantage of multiphoto ...

ABSTRACT: Lightfield 3D displays are being developed to reduce viewer eyestrain normally found on stereoscopic displays caused by the mismatch of the focus and stereo vergence on the display. These lightfield or Field of Light Displays (FoLD) systems generate a light field by any of several approaches including holographic, volumetric, integral-imaging, and multiple-2D-depth-planes. The differen ...

The objective is to develop and demonstrate new high performance aerospace alloys suitable for direct digital manufacturing (DDM). The shift from conventional titanium ingot metallurgy to DDM manufacturing provides the capability to develop alloy compositions which exhibit enhanced exemplary properties and at significantly lower cost in near/net shapes. The Phase I demonstrated titanium alloys wit ...

To meet the critical security needs of the Department of Homeland Security and others, we propose two methods for providing a secure root of trust for mobile devices. One method is designed to integrate as easily into existing systems, while the other requires deeper integration but provides correspondingly stronger security. The keys to our work are practicality and integration: practicality to e ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this SBIR project is to design a low profile high resistive MR compatible dense array EEG dEEG sensor net for simultaneous dEEG fMRI recordings in fields as high as Tesla This novel sensor net the andquot InkNetandquot will provide safe noninvasive and affordable dEEG fMRI technology to both clinicians and researchers thereby enabling r ...