http://www.ntis.gov/rss/RSSNTISCategoryList.aspxNational Technical Reports Libraryen(c) 2008, National Technical Information Service. All rights reserved.5http://www.ntis.gov/images/logoRSS.jpghttp://www.ntis.govWe summarize some recent results on modeling and control of ground vehicles navigating in high-speed over rough terrain. We start with the modeling of expert race (rally) driving techniques, and we then propose a new graph-search method to bridge the ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505700The primary objective of this paper is to develop an adaptive bilateral impedance control method for a team of mobile robotic agents, which implements formation control, cooperative grasping force compensation, and operator induced error compensation ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505730In this paper we introduce a new algorithm for assigning sensors and weapons to targets in the dynamic environment, where sensors, weapons, and targets are allowed to move freely (but predictably) over a certain region of a battlefield. In addition, ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505790The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, carries out its mission of promoting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by developing and applying technology, measurements, and stan ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101608This report explores a new way to think about designing digital systems, creating chip generators rather than chips, to resolve the crisis facing the chip industry: the need for high energy efficiency pushes us to create customized computing devices ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505937This paper outlines a collaborative program of work in higher-level fusion being conducted between Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom under the auspices of a TTCP panel on Information fusion. The paper shows how work from th ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506230The ability to recognize the encountered terrain is an essential part of any terrain-dependent control system designed for mobile robots. Terrains such as sand and gravel make vehicle mobility more difficult and thus reduce vehicle performance. To al ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505696The effectiveness of BiLAT, a game-based prototype for training negotiation skills in an Iraqi cultural setting, was assessed. The prototype aims to train deliberate preparation behaviors, trust-building and relationship- building strategies, and fam ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505896Detecting mud hazards is a significant challenge to UGV autonomous off-road navigation. A military UGV stuck in a mud body during a mission may need to be sacrificed or rescued, both unattractive options. JPL is currently developing a daytime mud det ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505685The Joint Advanced Distributed Simulation (JADS) Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) was chartered by the Deputy Director, Test, Systems Engineering and Evaluation (Test and Evaluation) 1, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) (Acquisition and Techno ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADM001190Dispersion in the wake of an obstacle is studied as a step towards the analysis of bio-agent release in urban environments. Available experimental measurements are used to compare in details numerical predictions obtained using Reynolds-Averaged Navi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505936We present algebraic operators useful in constructing models for software engineering applied to reliability and security. Double rail testing is a mathematical formalism for analyzing testing situations that have both false positives and false negat ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505365Network data provides valuable insight into understanding complex organizations by modeling relational dependence between network agents. Detecting subtle changes in organizational behavior can alert analysts before the change significantly impacts t ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505939The ability of computer simulations to accurately resolve dynamic responses of systems has significantly improved over the last decade. Simulations can now be a trusted source of parametric evaluation of complex systems. DARPA funded a program to inv ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505732In order to resolve atmospheric features, such as gravity waves to the degree necessary for accurate optical turbulence prediction, we developed an adaptive version of MM5 that incorporates the NCSU Dynamic Solution Adaptive Grid Algorithm (DSAGA) an ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505962Walking is generally viewed as an automatized skill, requiring little ongoing attentional control in neurologically intact adults. However, a growing body of research demonstrates that attention is required when moving over difficult terrain. This ha ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505850This newsletter is a publication by the Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Major Shared Resource Center. Articles include: Numerical Wave Tank. Simulation of Engine Ground Vortex Control, DoD Visualization Has a New Place on the Internet, ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505812The Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED), U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and partner Tank and Automotive Research Development Command (TARDEC) embarked on a 5-year Army Technology Objective (ATO) research program that addressed huma ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505725An important area of investigation in robotics perception and intelligent control concerns the ability to detect, track, and avoid humans operating in proximity to an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). Under the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Robotics Co ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505754No abstract available. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505681Applications for adaptive training (1) Rehabilitation (2) Teleoperation (3) Human-machine interactions (4) Learning and Co-Learning a Neural Machine Interface. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505922The IMAGE concept presented in this paper aims at supporting a team of specialists developing a common understanding of a complex situation and discovering unexpected phenomena. This concept is based on a human guided feedback loop involving cutting- ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505838The Law of Accelerating Returns: The price-performance, capacity and bandwidth of information technologies progresses exponentially through multiple paradigm shifts. The Paradigm Shift Rate is now doubling every decade. So is the take-off hard or sof ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505903In February 2008, the Robotics Program Office of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and General Dynamics Robotics Systems (GDRS) conducted an assessment of path planning technologies designed to improve Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) autonomous mobilit ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505693When the CellBE processor was introduced, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was one of the benchmarks; IBM published throughput speeds for different modes but gave no details on the precise implementation. Our team has developed AES independentl ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505463We are in the final year of a three-year project to generate in modern form an easily usable archive of digital seismograms derived from regional waveforms recorded at the Borovoye Observatory (BRV), northern Kazakhstan, over a thirty-year period goi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505432Hierarchical approaches to autonomous navigation usually divide path planning in two levels: local and global navigation. While these two approaches are complementary and can perform very well, they introduce the additional challenge of integrating t ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505702No abstract available. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506116We describe the use of quantum-mechanically entangled photons for sensing intrusions across a physical perimeter. Our approach to intrusion detection uses the no-cloning principle of quantum information science as protection against an intruder's abi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505832This paper describes the project undertaken by DSO National Laboratories to demonstrate convoy movement involving a manned vehicle and two Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) along roads and dirt tracks at speeds up to 35 km/h and 20 km/h respectively. T ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505729During the course of nearly two years, the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), National Defense University (NDU), has conducted extensive research to identify and explore major cyber issues. These activities were performed in ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505424Availability of service in many wireless networks depends on the ability for network users to establish and maintain communication channels using control messages from base stations and other users. An adversary with knowledge of the underlying commu ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505651In 2007, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released a report detailing the future of robotic military equipment and how to proceed in development and procurement of unmanned systems (Office of Secretary of Defense, 2007). This document recognizes ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505701The paper presents the problem of decentralized control with communication between controllers. It differs from the regularly considered decentralized control problem in that the controllers can communicate information. Major questions are then: What ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101524The effective use of multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) in an indoor environment can be challenging due to the several environmental and technical constraints. It becomes more challenging when a single operator is required to manage more than o ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505704The report discusses the general purpose of this report, which outlines the potential plans for the redesign of the National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP). We view NAEP as an integrated system, where a change in any one of the functional a ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102021No abstract available. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505918The NAVO MSRC provides Department of Defense (DoD) scientists and engineers with high performance computing (HPC) resources, including leading edge computational systems, large-scale data storage and archiving, scientific visualization resources and ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505906Chapter 1: Distributed Detection of Attacks/Intrusions and Prevention of Resource-Starvation Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Network by Jong Kim and Kang G. Shin; Chapter 2: Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic Properties of Modified DNAs Complexed with Heavy ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505628The Nash equilibrium concept of non-zero sum games is one possible option available to military planners seeking strategies to control large numbers of autonomous assets operating in an adversarial environment. To implement the Nash strategies inhere ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505726Military theorists such as David Alberts contend that information technologies will allow for wider and more rapid sharing of information. In order to take advantage of the emerging possibilities presented by information technologies the theorists re ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506221Accurate simulation models of social networks enable over time prediction, statistical testing of hypothesis about social groups, and enables researchers to develop more informed hypotheses for human experimentation, by evaluating them and reasoning ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506151In October 2000, garrison data network management was transformed due to the Marine Corps' transition to the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). In December of 1999, the Navy and Marine Corps solicited proposals from the civilian sector for a cont ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505527A novel method for online tracking of the changes in the nonlinearity within complex-valued signals is introduced. This is achieved by a collaborative adaptive signal processing approach by means of a hybrid filter. By tracking the dynamics of the ad ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505362We are in the midst of a revolution in military affairs unlike any seen since the Napoleonic Age, when France transformed warfare with the concept of levee en masse. This revolution is the transition from platform-centric warfare to network-centric w ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505514The Platform Precision Autopilot is an instrument landing system-interfaced autopilot system, developed to enable an aircraft to repeatedly fly nearly the same trajectory hours, days, or weeks later. The Platform Precision Autopilot uses a novel desi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20090029224Accurately estimating the person's head position and orientation is an important task for a wide range of applications such as driver awareness and human-robot interaction. Over the past two decades, many approaches have been suggested to solve this ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505847The preceding article of this two part series (TRP, Winter 1996, p. 15) examined a very basic reactive control scheme that could be used to intelligently direct the motions of the prototype security robot ROBART I operating in very structured and rel ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506192Effective route planning is essential to the successful operation of unmanned vehicles. Video game experience has been shown to affect route planning and execution, but why video game experience helps has not been addressed. One answer may be that sp ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505705In the race to PetaFLOP-speed supercomputing systems, the increase in computational capability has been accompanied by corresponding increases in CPU count, total RAM, and storage capacity. However, a proportional increase in storage bandwidth has la ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009964079Self-reconfigurable modular robots are metamorphic systems that can autonomously change their logical or physical configurations (such as shapes, sizes, or formations), as well as their locomotion and manipulation, based on the mission and the enviro ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505687We describe a text classification approach based on statistical language modeling. We show how this approach can be used for several natural language processing tasks in a virtual human system. Specifically, we show it can be applied to language unde ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505848In order to extend the usefulness of small unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to a wider range of missions, we are developing techniques to enable high-speed teleoperated control. Our goal is to quadruple the speed of teleoperated UGVs compared to curre ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505724While the military was once at the forefront of technological advances, it is now trying to keep pace with the civilian sector. The technological explosion during the past decade has forever changed the world and the Marine Corps, for which technolog ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505610The goal of this study was to evaluate the performance and utility of PAMGUARD 1.0 Core software for use in automated detection of marine mammal acoustic signals. Three different detector configurations of PAMGUARD are compared. These automated detec ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101394The idea in this research is to utilize ground-based LIDAR, in conjunction with point cloud processing algorithms, to assist with the identification, evaluation and management of highway slopes that are prone to rockfall. This includes the assessment ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101386We present a conceptual discussion of a numerical method to simulate the penetration of a ballistic gel by a projectile. The method draws on the computational advantages presented by asynchronous variational integrators (AVIs) and an immersed boundar ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505859This work is focused on developing an integrated device, called a programmable material, which mirrors the capabilities of natural co-fabricated controlled actuation systems such as muscle. While such a device may have the external appearance of a ho ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505671The unit of action signal company faces serious challenges in keeping its soldiers trained and ready. As the Army transforms to the objective force and becomes more digitized, the signal corps will be responsible for an increasing amount of communica ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505519An immersive technology being developed by the Army to provide enhanced situation awareness for military personnel involves the use of tactile stimulators arranged in a matrix pattern surrounding the torso. When activated sequentially the tactile dis ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505849The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has encouraged the use of computer mapping through its grants programs and has demonstrated a strong interest in fostering problem solving as well as more concentrated approaches to allocation ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101798In this research project, two innovative, modularized algorithms, sign detection and sign recognition, are developed. They form a solid foundation for developing an intelligent sign inventory and management system. A two-step sign inventory data coll ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101387We investigate the impact of node capture attacks on the confidentiality and integrity of network traffic. We map the compromise of network traffic to the flow of current through an electric circuit and propose a metric for quantifying the vulnerabil ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505636In spite of extensive prior research on generation of seismic waves by underground nuclear explosions, it is still not possible to provide a complete explanation for the observed wavefields, particularly at regional distances. Spherically symmetric e ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505433