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THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO QUALIFY AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTING TANK MOUNTED GUNS USING NON-IMAGING (THERMAL) SENSORS. TWO EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES WILL BE PERFORMED TO CHARACTERIZE THE INDUCED RESPONSE OF TANK MOUNTED GUNS. THE TWO TECHNIQUES ARE QUITE DIFFERENT, ONE IS ACOUSTIC AND ONE IS ELECTROMAGNETIC, BUT THE BASIC DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENTS IS VERY SIMILAR. A BROADBAND S ...

THE SBIR PHASE I PROJECT PROPOSED CONSISTS OF THE TESTING OF THE CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF SEVERAL RELATED MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION. SEVERAL OTHER APPLICATIONS OF THESE METHODS ARE ALSO SUGGESTED. IN THE APPLICATION TO DISCRIMINATION, THE FOLLOWING DATA SETS WILL BE USED: REGIONAL ARRAY DATA FOR EARTHQUAKES AND QUARRY BLASTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN REGIONS, IRIS DATA RECO ...

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WE PROPOSE AN ALL-DIELECTRIC FIBER OPTIC TIME DOMAIN SENSOR NETWORK WHICH ALLOWS QUASI-DISTRIBUTED, REAL TIME STRAIN, TEMPERATURE, AND PRESSURE MONITORING. THE SYSTEM PROVIDES FAST DATA RATES, PROVIDES LOW SIGNAL ATTENUATION, OFFERS IMMUNITY TO CORROSION AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC INTERFERENCE, AND REDUCES NETWORKING COMPLEXITY. THE PROPOSED FIBER ARRAY IS AMENABLE TO SUBMERSED AND/OR BURIED APPLICATION ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE SOFTWARE TOOLKIT THAT CAN HELP A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER FABRICATION FACILITY (WAFER FAB) ACHIEVE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER ASSET UTILIZATION AND THROUGHPUT COMBINED WITH REDUCED WORK-IN-PROGRESS, CYCLE TIMES AND TARDINESS. THE SOFTWARE TOOL WILL BE USED BY DESIGNERS OF FACTORIES TO EXPERIMENT WITH ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS AND SCHEDULING STRATEGIES ...

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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 ...

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 ...