Tech Briefs - June 2017 - Vol. 41 No. 6

Features

• Who's Who

  Adam Sidor, NASA Research Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• Articles

  Products of Tomorrow: June 2017

  Virtual Fabrication and Assembly Documentation

  How Metal 3D Printing is Redefining Part Design

• Facility Focus

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• NASA Spinoff

  Wire Sensors Detect Dangerous Conditions in the Clouds

Tech Briefs

• Machinery & Automation

  Autonomous Combustion-Powered Hopping Robot

  Omnidirectional Mobile Robot with Two Moving Parts

  Interactive Robot Control System and Method of Use

  Integrated High-Speed Torque Control System for a Robotic Joint

  Developing a Satellite-Based Autonomous Vehicle Control System

  Wearable Robotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery

  Technique Provides Security for Multi-Robot Systems

• Manufacturing & Prototyping

  Fabrication of BSA 14-23 Superhydrophobic Sponges as Efficient Oil and Organic Liquid Absorbents

  Suspended Platform Improves Efficiency in Large-Scale Manufacturing

  Positioning Stage

  Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes

  Carbon Fiber and Fiber Metal Laminate Composites Reinforced with Metallic Glass

• Software

  Launch Trajectory Acquisition System (LTAS) Source Slaving Selector (LS3)

  Acoustic Propagation and Emulation Toolset (APET)

  AUTONOMIE Automotive System Design Software

  Numerical Method to Predict the Evaporation Time of a Water Droplet Attached to a Solid Boundary in the Presence of Fluid Flow

  Generation of Cut- and Split-Cells for Face-Piercing Geometry in Embedded-Boundary Cartesian Methods

  High-Speed Particle Image Velocimetry

• Materials

  Combination Structural Support and Thermal Protection System

  Composite Insulated Conductor

  Multifunctional Platelet Composites for Tin Whisker Mitigation

  Electrically Conductive, Optically Transparent Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Composites

  Space Vehicle Heat Shield Having Edgewise Strips of Ablative Material

  Mechanically Strong, Thermally Stable, and Electrically Conductive Nanocomposite Structure and Method of Fabricating Same

  Improved Cast Stainless Steel Alloys

• Mechanics & Machinery

  Low-Pressure Plasma Cleaning of Aerospace Components Using Breathing/Compressed Air

  Chain Drive Dust Conveyer

  Micro Acoustic Resonant Chambers for Heating/Agitating/Mixing (MARCHAM)

  Compact, Lightweight Trap Vent

• Electronics & Computers

  Recovering Metals from Electronic Waste

  Solder Bond Packaging for High-Voltage Pulsed Power Devices

  Chip-Sized Terahertz Modulator for Faster Data Transmission

• Photonics/Optics

  Digital Beamforming Interferometry

  Additive-Manufactured, Very Lightweight, Diamond Turned Aspheric Mirror

  Development of a Sodium LiDAR for Spaceborne Missions

  Invertible Time Invariant Linear Filtering (InTILF) Method for Pattern Detection and Modeling of Stochastic One- or Two-Dimensional Data

Products

• Product of the Month: June 2017

• Briefs

  Self-Assembling, Reversible, Reagentless Biosensor

  Chip-Based Power Measurement Sensor

  Space Radiation Detector with Spherical Geometry

• Articles

  Drones Spot Gas Leaks From the Sky

  MEMS Move Wearables Beyond Touch Interfaces

  Sensors’ Role Evolves as New Wearables Emerge

• Products

  New Products: June 2017 Sensor Technology

• Applications

  3D Printing Enables Customized Magnets

• Briefs

  Advanced Tool Drive System (ATDS) Camera Positioning Mechanism (CPM)

  Linear Rope Brake System for Aerial Delivery

  Origami-Inspired Robot Fits in Tight Spaces

  Software Interface Simplifies Robot Control

  Composite C-Channel Incrementally Adjustable Fluid Control System

• Articles

  Sizing and Selecting Linear Motion Systems

  Piezo Technology in Pneumatic Valves

  Adding Simple Vision Systems to Collaborative Robots

• Applications

  Oil Sheer Clutch Cuts Downtime for Metal Stamping Press

• Products

  New Products: June 2017 Motion Design