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RESPONSIVE AND SENSITIVE FORCE CONTROL IS ESSENTIAL FOR SOPHISTICATED ROBOT TASKS SUCH AS ASSEMBLY AND FINE MANIPULATION. HOWEVER, THIS KIND OF CONTROL IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR MANIPULATORS DRIVEN BY ELECTRIC MOTORS WITH GEARED TRANSMISSIONS, PRIMARILY DUE TO FRICTION IN THE DRIVE TRAIN. YET THESE TYPES OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ARE OFTEN THE MOST PRACTICAL FOR MANY APPLICATIONS. TWO PRIMARY TYPES OF CON ...

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IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, ONTOLOGY IS THE TASK OF EXTRACTING THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF A GIVEN EINGEERING, MANUFACTURING, BUSINESS, OR LOGISTICAL DOMAIN AND STORING IT INAN EXPRESSIVELY RICH, USABLE, COMPUTATIONALLY FEASIBLE REPRESENTATIONAL MEDIUM. AN ARRAY OF ONTOLOGY DATABASES IN USE ACROSS A WIDE VARIETYOF SUCH SYSTEMS WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE TASKS OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A ...

RELIABLE OBJECT-BASED CONTROL SOFTWARE (ROCS) ISA PROGRAMMING TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN BE COMBINED WITH BOTH INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS AND POWERFUL RISC BASED PROCESSORS TO CONSTRUCTFLEXIBLE CONTROL COMPONENTS OF GENERAL PURPOSE MACHINE TOOLS. ROCS ALSO SUPPORTS THE COMBINATION OF THOSE COMPONENTS INTO INNOVATIVE STATION, CELL, CENTER OR FACTORY AUTOMATION CONCEPTS. THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY WO ...

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We propose to demonstrate a powerful, general approach, the Theory of Corobs, to address DARPA's identified need for canonical data structure and access mechanisms to support model interoperability. The technology we will produce under this contract will enable the construction of robust data warehousing supporting a wide range of "looks" of the data to the outside world, true generic knowledge b ...

DARPA has identified collaborative computing as a technology not yet adequately developed in the marketplace. This need to share and interactively work with documents and other information objects across separate computer systems is really the underlying human business need that originally drove the creation of network technology, desktop video-teleconferencing, and even the failed earlier indust ...

The primary objective of this effort is to develop tractable techniques to automatically extract terrain and geologic features from interferometric SAR (IFSAR) imagery and Digital Terrain Elevation (DTE) data produced from IFSAR phase data. A secondary objective is to develop performance prediction techniques for the extraction process. Today terrain information extraction from aerial imagery rema ...

The Virtual Environment Training for Battlefield Medical Personnel (VETBMP) project is the development of a simulation architecture designed to integrate procedural simulations, intelligent tutoring, and various sensory input devices to create a realistic training scenario for 'forward' military personnel. Phase I of VETBMP will be a simulation of a standard medic task (intravenous infusion), emb ...