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Work to be performed in this program is based upon years of innovative technology development invested by personnel at Nova Research. Techniques proposed here are patterned after biological principles which, when applied to finding targets which are moving against highly cluttered infrared backgrounds, will be shown to exhibit remarkable performance. Sensor and data fusion techniques may ...

The U.S. Navy designed high-power active sonars like the Low Frequency Active (LFA) system to counter quiet submarines. High-power transmissions from mid- and low-frequency sonars are known to cause trauma for human divers. To comply with the MarineMammal Protection Act and the LFA Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), the U.S. Navy must effectively reduce active sonar transmissions to benign lev ...

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Passive thermal management solutions for high power electronics are inadequate for advanced US Navy systems. Active cooling systems can provide superior heat dissipation, but may present significant packaging challenges. Foster-Miller proposes a hybridthermal management concept that combines a passive element (high thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion face plate) and an active element (li ...

The video surveillance industry is experiencing dramatic change with the move from analog to digital video. Command centers need to have coordinated viewing of multiple camera feeds at one time, and the ability to switch automatically between feeds and display relevant patterns. Conventional security control rooms include a bank of monitors connected through a switch to an array of security camera ...

We propose to develop and test an oxygen generator for undersea vehicle fuel. The proposed oxygen generator is based on the decomposition of lithium perchlorate or sodium chlorate in an RF barrier plasma torch discharge. The parameters of this dischargeare evaluated and found to be the most suitable of all the atmospheric pressure discharges for the current application. The gas temperature in such ...

"SMI and ARL at Penn State will collaborate to develop a real-time, intelligent, hierarchical control system for fault detection, prediction, performance prediction, model validation and real time resource management and system reconfiguration. ThisAutonomous Monitoring and Control System (AMCS) will:¿ Improve the fault detection and prediction in UAV's ;¿ Differentiate between faul ...

SSCI and Yale University (Prof. Narendra) propose to develop new practically viable intelligent control algorithms based on the Multiple Models, Switching and Tuning (MMST) methodology for rapidly-varying nonlinear systems, and apply these to the reconfigurable flight control design for Uninhibited Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV) in the presence of control effector failures and battle damage. In Ph ...

Autonomous control of multiple UAVs and UCAVS offers special advantages for reconnaissance,surveillance and precision strike. Such missions call for unprecedented levels of autonomy, reliability, precision and fault tolerance over long periods of time, especially for missions with communication blackouts. The complexity of the design process for autonomous fault tolerant control of such multi- ...

The proposed STTR project (Phases I and II) will develop multiscale and multiresolution algorithms and software, as well as produce a simulation testbed for evaluating advanced techniques for image enhancement and classification using sensor data from multiple UAVs and UCAVs. For development and testing we will utilize multi-sensor data such as SAR, ISAR, IR, MMW, and Ladar, obtained from bo ...