Briefs: Software
Astronaut Health Participant Summary Application
The Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH) Participant Summary software captures data based on a custom information model designed to gather all relevant, discrete medical events for its study participants. This software provides a summarized view of the study participant’s entire medical...
Briefs: Software
Natural Language Interface for Safety Certification of Safety-Critical Software
Model-based design and automated code generation are being used increasingly at NASA. The trend is to move beyond simulation and prototyping to actual flight code, particularly in the guidance, navigation, and control domain. However, there are substantial obstacles...
Briefs: Software
Adaption of the AMDIS Method to Flight Status on the VCAM Instrument
Software has been developed to function onboard the International Space Station (ISS) to help safeguard human health by detecting compounds of concern in the cabin atmosphere, both in identity and concentration. This software calibrates and processes a standard 2D dataset (mass...
Application Briefs: Software
a.i. solutions
Lanham, MD
301-306-1756
www.ai-solutions.com
Managing the people, data, and activities...
Articles: Software
Data Device Corp.
Bohemia, NY
651-484-6544
www.ddc-web.com
To support the Ares-1, an in-line, two-stage rocket configuration topped by the...
Articles: Software
Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.
Concord, MA
800-693-9000
www.solidworks.com
Software from Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. has been...
Briefs: Software
Planetary Image Geometry Library
The Planetary Image Geometry (PIG) library is a multi-mission library used for projecting images (EDRs, or Experiment Data Records) and managing their geometry for in-situ missions. A collection of models describes cameras and their articulation, allowing application programs such as mosaickers, terrain...
Briefs: Software
Automation Framework for Flight Dynamics Products Generation
XFDS provides an easily adaptable automation platform. To date it has been used to support flight dynamics operations. It coordinates the execution of other applications such as Satellite TookKit, FreeFlyer, MATLAB, and Perl code. It provides a mechanism for passing messages among a...
Briefs: Software
Product Operations Status Summary Metrics
The Product Operations Status Summary Metrics (POSSUM) computer program provides a readable view into the state of the Phoenix Operations Product Generation Subsystem (OPGS) data pipeline. POSSUM provides a user interface that can search the data store, collect product metadata, and display the results...
Briefs: Software
Mars Terrain Generation
A suite of programs for the generation of disparity maps from stereo image pairs via correlation, and conversion of those disparity maps to XYZ maps, has been updated. This suite implements an automated method of deriving terrain from stereo images for use in the ground data system for in-situ (lander and rover) cameras....
Briefs: Software
Application-Controlled Parallel Asynchronous Input/Output Utility
A software utility tool has been designed to alleviate file system I/O performance bottlenecks to which many high-end computing (HEC) applications fall prey because of the relatively large volume of data generated for a given amount of computational work. In an effort to reduce...
Articles: Software
In our annual poll of executives at leading analysis and simulation software companies, we asked about the economic situation’s effect on the market, the pros and cons of virtual prototyping,...
Blog: Software
Lightning Strikes With PTC's Creo
There was a bit of a crowd lining up near Boston's Park Plaza this morning, and if it wasn't for all the business-casual attire, you may have thought another Apple Store was opening up down the street. The event was actually PTC's unveiling of its new product suite: Creo.
Here's the quick...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
You might think a wind turbine would have more in common with a plane’s propeller than an aircraft wing, but wind blades actually...
Application Briefs: Software
Geomagic Inc.
Research Triangle Park, NC
800-691-1839
www.geomagic.com
Ceramic tiles...
Briefs: Software
BGen: A UML Behavior Network Generator Tool
BGen software was designed for auto-generation of code based on a graphical representation of a behavior network used for controlling automatic vehicles. A common format used for describing a behavior network, such as that used in the JPL-developed behavior-based control system, CARACaS [“Control...
Briefs: Software
Platform for Post-Processing Waveform-Based NDE
Signal- and image-processing methods are commonly needed to extract information from the waves, improve resolution of, and highlight defects in an image. Since some similarity exists for all waveform-based nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods, it would seem that a common software platform...
Briefs: Software
Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for the HyspIRI Spectrometer Mission
The OSSE software provides an integrated end-to-end environment to simulate an Earth observing system by iteratively running a distributed modeling workflow based on the HyspIRI Mission, including atmospheric radiative transfer, surface albedo effects, detection,...
Briefs: Software
Probabilistic Design and Analysis Framework
PRODAF is a software package designed to aid analysts and designers in conducting probabilistic analysis of components and systems. PRODAF can integrate multiple analysis programs to ease the tedious process of conducting a complex analysis process that requires the use of multiple software packages....
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Excavator Design Validation
The Excavator Design Validation tool verifies excavator designs by automatically generating control systems and modeling their performance in an accurate simulation of their expected environment. Part of this software design includes interfacing with human operations that can be included in simulation-based studies...
Briefs: Software
Momentum Management Tool for Low-Thrust Missions
A momentum management tool was designed for the Dawn low-thrust interplanetary spacecraft en route to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, in an effort to better understand the early creation of the solar system. Momentum must be managed to ensure the spacecraft has enough control authority to perform...
Briefs: Software
Mixed Real/Virtual Operator Interface for ATHLETE
The mixed real/virtual operator interface for ATHLETE (MSim-ATHLETE) is a new software system for operating manipulation and inspection tasks in JPL’s ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer). The system presents the operator with a graphical model of the robot and a palette...
Briefs: Software
Antenna Controller Replacement Software
The Antenna Controller Replacement (ACR) software accurately points and monitors the Deep Space Network (DSN) 70-m and 34-m high-efficiency (HEF) ground-based antennas that are used to track primarily spacecraft and, periodically, celestial targets. To track a spacecraft, or other targets, the antenna must...
Briefs: Software
Efficient Parallel Engineering Computing on Linux Workstations
A C software module has been developed that creates lightweight processes (LWPs) dynamically to achieve parallel computing performance in a variety of engineering simulation and analysis applications to support NASA and DoD project tasks. The required interface between the module and...
Briefs: Software
The FAILSAFE project is developing concepts and prototype implementations for software health management in mission-critical, real-time embedded systems. The project unites features of the...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
This software has been designed to detect water bodies that are out in the open on cross-country terrain at mid- to far-range (approximately 20–100 meters), using imagery acquired from a stereo pair...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Nonlinear Combustion Instability Prediction
The liquid rocket engine stability prediction software (LCI) predicts combustion stability of systems using LOX-LH2 propellants. Both longitudinal and transverse mode stability characteristics are calculated. This software has the unique feature of being able to predict system limit amplitude.
Briefs: Physical Sciences
JMISR INteractive eXplorer
MISR (Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer) INteractive eXplorer (MINX) is an interactive visualization program that allows a user to digitize smoke, dust, or volcanic plumes in MISR multiangle images, and automatically retrieve height and wind profiles associated with those plumes. This innovation can perform...
Briefs: Software
Characterization of Cloud Water-Content Distribution
The development of realistic cloud parameterizations for climate models requires accurate characterizations of sub-grid distributions of thermodynamic variables. To this end, a software tool was developed to characterize cloud water-content distributions in climate-model sub-grid scales.
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