NASA Tech Briefs - March 2014 - Vol. 38 No. 3

Features

• Application Briefs

  Video Routing System Upgrades Mission Control Center

  Water Impact Simulation Ensures Safer Landing for NASA Astronauts

• Who's Who

  Dr. Vadim Smelyanskiy, Principal Scientist, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

• Articles

  Collaborative Platforms Aid Emergency Decision-Making

  System-on-Module for Pre-Packaged Convenience

Tech Briefs

• Physical Sciences

  Spacecraft Line-of- Sight Stabilization Using LWIR Earth Signature

  Transportable Instrumentation Package for In-Vehicle On-Road Data Acquisition

  Variable Camber Aerodynamic Control Surfaces and Active Wing Shaping Control

  NanoRacks-Scale MEMS Gas Chromatograph System

• Manufacturing & Prototyping

  Integrated PEMFC Flow Field Design for Gravity-Independent Passive Water Removal

  Metal-Assisted Fabrication of Biodegradable Porous Silicon Nanostructures

  Post-Growth, In Situ Adhesion of Carbon Nanotubes to a Substrate for Robust CNT Cathodes

  Thermal Mechanical Preparation of Glass Spheres

• Software

  Data Acquisition and Processing Software — DAPS

  360° Visual Detection and Object Tracking on an Autonomous Surface Vehicle

  Simulation of Charge Carrier Mobility in Conducting Polymers

  Observational Data Formatter Using CMOR for CMIP5

• Materials

  Improving Material Property Measurement Using Multi- Camera Digital Image Correlation

  Mechanistic-Based Multiaxial- Stochastic-Strength Model for Transversely- Isotropic Brittle Materials

• Information Sciences

  Debris & Ice Mapping Analysis Tool — Database

  Data Fusion for Global Estimation of Forest Characteristics From Sparse Lidar Data

  Virtual Testing of High Lift Systems

  Examination and A Priori Analysis of a Direct Numerical Simulation Database for High-Pressure Turbulent Flows

  Propellant Loading Physics Model for Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery

  Probabilistic Guidance for Swarms of Autonomous Agents

  Future Air-Traffic Management Concepts Evaluation Tool

• Mechanics & Machinery

  Re-entry Vehicle Shape for Enhanced Performance

  CubeSat Deployable Log Periodic Dipole Array

  Protective Sleeve for a Pyrotechnic Reefing Line

  Metabolic Heat Regenerated Temperature Swing Adsorption

• Electronics & Computers

  Dual-Leadframe Transient Liquid Phase Bonded Power Semiconductor Module Assembly and Bonding Process

  Methods for Mitigating Space Radiation Effects, Fault Detection and Correction, and Processing Sensor Data

  Quad First Stage Processor: A Four-Channel Digitizer and Digital Beam-Forming Processor

  Compact Ka-Band Antenna Feed with Double Circularly Polarized Capability

• Imaging

  Reducing Drift in Stereo Visual Odometry

Products

• Product of the Month: The APN Series Power Monitoring Sensor

• Applications

  Hyperspectral Imaging What is it? How does it work?

• Articles

  Demystifying Spectroscopy

• Products

  White Light Measurement Solution

  Optical Coatings

  Spectral Test Station

  CCD Cameras

  Photoelectric Laser Distance Sensors

• Briefs

  Resource-Constrained Application of Support Vector Machines to Imagery

  Reducing Drift in Stereo Visual Odometry

  Technique for Finding Retro-Reflectors in Flash LIDAR Imagery

  Novel Hemispherical Dynamic Camera for EVAs

• Articles

  LED Illumination in Simulation and Training

  Measuring Motion with Imaging Software

• Applications

  Frame Grabber Deployed in Robomotive Humanoid Robot