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Objectives are to increase robustness in mine detection/classification against significant amounts of clutter, with probability of a correct decision vs. false alarm rate sufficiently good to be implemented in third generation search, classify and map UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle) systems. Echoes and images are used to enhance displays for operator review. The system will be less tedious for ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a revolutionary miniature projector engine for automotive full windshield display (FWD). The invention allows high quality images with rich graphics to be displayed directly on automobile windshields. The mini-projector engine can be integrated with a rearview mirror. It can be interfaced to the on-board electroni ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pain accounts for almost 80% of all of the office visits to physicians each year (National Center for Health Statistics, 1986; Stucky, Gold, & Zhang, 2001; Winterowd, Beck, & Greuner, 2003) and is a major source of disability, accounting for upwards of 700 million lost work days and $100 billion in health care costs per year (Report of the Commission on Evaluat ...

Crystal Research, Inc. (CRI) proposes to develop a first-time all-photonic scheme for wide-band beam steering of X-band Radar (XBR). The innovation is a remote active T/R module using electro-optic true-time-delay line, which will significantly improve beam steering performance of fast response time, wide bandwidth, frequency-independent operation with reduced power consumption and increased remo ...

Smart materials have shown promise for fluid power generation within electrohydrostatic actuators (EHAs). The smart material pumps have been successfully built to operate at high frequencies, but valve limitations have consistently reduced overall performance. Both passive and active valve concepts have been designed and tested, but these approaches have resulted in bandwidth limitations and add ...

Ultra-clean, highly-efficient energy plants must be realized for the U.S. to reach its future energy objectives. In particular, more robust and flexible process control technologies must be developed in order to build an intelligent control system that provides fully automated operation, and can adapt to changing process needs and fuel availability. These technologies must be safe, reliable, and ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II research project will investigate novel integrated circuit design technologies for the realization of ultra-low-power microcontrollers. The main objective of this project is to investigate the deployment of novel charge-recovery circuitry for the design of an ultra-low-power leading-edge commercial microcontroller core. The resulting charge-recovery ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Due to the rapidly increasing number of therapeutic humanized monoclonal antibodies being developed and FDA-approved, there is a clear need for improved cell line development to support recombinant therapeutic protein manufacturing. There is a current and projected shortage of worldwide GMP manufacturing capacity for these therapeutic proteins, and approaches f ...

Processing of fish into fillets and in further processing into consumer portion packs results a significant amount of fish muscle being discarded. Although the quality of this discarded meat is equal to that of the fillet, the odd shapes and bone content makes it unusable directly in the production of fillets. The discards can amount from 10 to 30% of the produced finished fillet weight, and the g ...

A WNW Host Simulator (WHS) can be considered an indoor open-air range in which a JTRS radio is given the various electronic stimuli it needs to “think” it is flight operation over a geographic area. The JTR Set and its waveforms are then “operated” in simulated conditions and its performance and integration with the host platform measured. The goal is to reduce the risk to flight testing b ...