NASA Tech Briefs - November 2010 - Vol. 34 No. 11

Tech Briefs

Mechanics & Machinery

Deployment of a Curved Truss

Reusable Hot-Wire Cable Cutter

High-Volume Airborne Fluids Handling Technologies To Fight Wildfires

Use of ILTV Control Laws for LaNCETS Flight Research

Information Sciences

Predicting Long-Range Traversability From Short-Range Stereo-Derived Geometry

Salience Assignment for Multiple-Instance Data and Its Application to Crop Yield Prediction

Browser-Based Application for Telemetry Monitoring of Robotic Assets

Decomposition Algorithm for Global Reachability on a Time-Varying Graph

Autonomous GN&C for Spacecraft Exploration of Comets and Asteroids

Efficient Web Services Policy Combination

Using CTX Image Features to Predict HiRISE-Equivalent Rock Density

Inversion Method for Early Detection of ARES-1 Case Breach Failure

Evaluating Descent and Ascent Trajectories Near Non-Spherical Bodies

Materials

Fabrication of Lanthanum Telluride 14-1-11 Zintl High-Temperature Thermoelectric Couple

Modeling of Alkane Oxidation Using Constituents and Species

A Computer Model for Analyzing Volatile Removal Assembly

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Optimal Flow Control Design

Microfabricated Segmented-Involute-Foil Regenerator for Stirling Engines

Reducing Seal Adhesion in Low Impact Docking Systems

Corrosion-Resistant Container for Molten-Material Processing

Process To Produce Iron Nanoparticle Lunar Dust Simulant Composite

Physical Sciences

Portable Handheld Optical Window Inspection Device

Speech Acquisition and Automatic Speech Recognition for Integrated Spacesuit Audio Systems

Analysis of Nozzle Jet Plume Effects on Sonic Boom Signature

Handheld White Light Interferometer for Measuring Defect Depth in Windows

Optical Sidebands Multiplier

Maximum Likelihood Time-of-Arrival Estimation of Optical Pulses via Photon-Counting Photodetectors

Single Spatial-Mode Room-Temperature-Operated 3.0 to 3.4 μm Diode Lasers

Portable Dew Point Mass Spectrometry System for Real-Time Gas and Moisture Analysis

Self-Nulling Beam Combiner Using No External Phase Inverter

Bio-Medical

Preserving Phase for Bionic Implants by Rearranging a Signal’s Components

Thermographic Printing Using Organic Silver Salts

Retractor System for Abdominal Surgery

Repeatable, Low-Cost UV Assembly of Biosensors

Tethered Endoscope for Photographing the Esophagus

Isolation of the 'Paenibacillus phoenicis', a Spore-Forming Bacterium

Cell Radiation Experiment System

Monolithically Integrated, Mechanically Resilient Carbon-Based Probes for Scanning Probe Microscopy

Electronics & Computers

Methods of Using a Magnetic Field Response Sensor Within Closed, Electrically Conductive Containers

Miniature Low-Noise G-Band I-Q Receiver

Differential Resonant Ring YIG Tuned Oscillator