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THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH BATTLEFIELD ROBOT SENSOR TECHNOLOGY ARE DISCUSSED. UTILIZATION OF MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR AS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION IS PROPOSED. AN INNOVATIVE RADAR DESIGN BASED ON FREQUENCY MODULATED (FM) TECHNIQUES IN LIEU OF PULSED OPERATION IS THE BASIS OF THE PHASE I STUDY. THE USE OF A DEDICATED MICROPROCESSOR FOR RADAR SYSTEM CONTROL AND FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (FFT) SIGNAL PROCESSIN ...

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF TARGET INFORMATION USING RADAR CROSS SECTIONS IS AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT PROBLEM. A LARGE AMOUNT OF EFFORT HAS BEEN DEVOTED TO THE PROBLEM OF ESTIMATING THE RADAR CROSS SECTION OF VARIOUS SHAPES, BUT THE RANGE OF POSSIBLE OBJECTS WHICH CAN BE ENCOUNTERED IS LARGE, AND MEASURES CAN BE TAKEN TO ALTER THE APPEARANCE OF A RADAR CROSS-SECTION. IN ADDITION, AN OBJECT CAN BE VI ...

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LRI IS PRESENTLY DEVELOPING AN EXPERT SYSTEM PROTOTYPE THAT APPLIES PART-WHOLE INFERENCE TO CONVENTIONAL ORDER-OF-BATTLE FILES. A KEY ELEMENT OF THIS PROJECT YET TO BE CONSIDERED IS AN INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE DICTIONARY THAT WOULD (A) HELP THE ANALYST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE KNOWLEDGE BASE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE OB DATA, (B) PERMIT THE ANALYST TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE BASES WIT ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A FREQUENCY-DOMAIN COMPUTER PROGRAM IS PROPOSED FOR PREDICTING STATISTICAL MOTION PARAMETERS (HEAVE, PITCH, AND ROLL DISPLACEMENTS, VELOCITIES, AND ACCELERATIONS) FOR VARIOUS SES CONFIGURATIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS UNDER VARIOUS OPERATING CONDITIONS-WITH AND WITHOUT RIDE CONTROL. THE PHASE I TASKS WILL VERIFY THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A LINEAR FREQUENCY-DOMAIN APPROACH BY COMPARING INIT ...

THE MCCADE CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY METRIC IS AN INDUSTRY ACCEPTED TOOL WHICH QUANTIFIES THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND A SOFTWARE MODULE BASED ON THE DECISION STRUCTURE OF THE CODE. IN ADDITION, THIS METRIC PROVIDESINFORMATION REGARDING THE AMOUNT OF TESTING REQUIRED TO VERIFY A SOFTWARE MODULE. TOGETHER THESE MEASURES PROVIDE AN ANALYTIC APPROACH TO SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE ISSUES. MCCABE & ASSOCIATES, INC. ...

A RECOGNIZED NEED EXISTS FOR A STRESS TEST ASSESSMENT TOOL, WHICH WILL AUTOMATE THE TESTING PROCESS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TESTING SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE UNDER STRESS CONDITIONS. MCCADE & ASSOCIATES, INC. PROPOSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL WHICH EXTENDS THE MCCADE COMPLEXITYMETHODOLOGY TO INCLUDE AUTOMATIC STRESS TESTING. THE MCCADE CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY METRIC IS AN INDUSTRY ACCEPTED TOOL WHICH QUANTI ...

A NOVEL SOLID MODELING METHOD WILL BE APPLIED TO ASSIST IN THE RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT OPERATION OF CERTAIN KEY COMPONENTS OF AN AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING CELL. THE FOCUS WILL BE ON THE VALIDATION OF THE INPUT PROGRAM FOR NUMERICAL CONTROLLED (NC) MACHINES. HOWEVER APPLICATIONS TO REAL-TIME MOTION PLANNING FOR ROBOTS AND COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE PROBES REPRESENT IMPORTANT "SPIN-OFF" BENEFITS. THE ...

STUDIES WILL BE PERFORMED TO EXAMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING FAIRLY HIGH RESISTANCE CABLES (R-WIRES) AS A MEANS TO MITIGATE THE LARGE SREMP TRANSIENTS WHICH ARE EXPECTED IN BURIED AND OVERHEAD POWER-LINE DISTRIBUTIONS. THE ANALYSIS WILL UTILIZE COMPUTER CODES WHICH SOLVE THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSMISSION LINE EQUATIONS IN THE TIME DOMAIN USING FINITE DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUES. A MAJOR PORTION OF THIS ...