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The overall objective of this project is to develop a reliable, low-cost neural network architecture for sensors, and real-time processing to continuously monitor the structural health of the thick composite structure used in armored vehicles. The Phase I demonstration will be implemented with advanced fiber optic sensors for acquiring health and status data from a sample composite structure, a mo ...

Summary AbstractHealthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a threat to patient safety. Stopping the spread of HAIs requires prevention, surveillance, and outbreak investigations. Many hospitals are employing enhanced cleaning protocols, such UV disinfection, to their standard cleaning protocols, which when properly implemented have been shown to decrease the spread of HAIs. A significant challeng ...

ABSTRACT: The ability to ascertain rapid and accurate aeroelastic system stability margin as well as the ability to extract flight test structure mode shapes for on-the-fly investigation of aero-structure interactions are some of the real challenges facing control room engineers during flight testing of aircraft. The proposed developments in this Proposal aim to meet these challenges through the ...

ABSTRACT: The ability to extract structure mode shapes, accurate system frequency/damping and to predict the onset of flutter/LCO in a real-time capacity from flight/wind tunnel test data are some of the toughest challenges facing control room engineers today. In Phase I, ZONA Technology successfully developed prototype IADS ActiveX controls (i.e., the ZAMS+ Toolset) towards meeting these challe ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since the industrial revolution, pollution of subsurface environments by heavy metals has increased substantially from anthropogenic sources such as industrial effluents, military munitions manufacturing, and mining activities. Heavy metals cannot be degraded and therefore accumulate in soils, sediments, and groundwater, posing significant health risks to plant ...

GeoSense™ is the only wireless sensor that allows for real-time geotechnical and environmental soil data. It was created to address the limitations of current methods of soil testing. The mobile-based wireless sensor is embedded in the soil to monitor and

An innovative and highly patented Ion Mobility orthogonal Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (IM-oTOF MS) will characterize SWNT (single wall nanotube) growth in a laser oven reactor. Time evolution of the size distributions of carbon and metal catalyst cluster growth (either free or attached to nanotubes) as well as the ratio of cluster to tubular carbon forms will be measured both within the plasm ...

In Phase I we have demonstrated the detection and identification of products of carbon single wall nanotubes (SWNT) synthesis by the laser oven growth process using our unique method of Ion Mobility orthogonal Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (IM oTOF MS). The Phase II will be aimed at the implementation of laser photoionization coupled with optical techniques for more complete in situ time-resolv ...

Applications that depend on long-distance imaging through the Earths turbulent atmosphere often must contend with optical distortions caused by refraction-index fluctuations. Atmospheric distortions can be corrected using hardware-based approaches such

Nanohmics is developing an innovative system for restoring atmospheric turbulence-degraded imagery in real-time. The Real-time Online GPU Enabled Turbulence Compensation (ROGUE-TC) system applies fast Multiframe Blind Deconvolution methods to ground observations of space objects using a custom, standalone GPU workstation consisting of commercial off-the-shelf components. ROGUE-TC algorithms make e ...