1977 — 1980 |
Snyder, Wesley |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Distributed Digital Control of Manipulator Systems @ North Carolina State University |
0.915 |
1987 — 1989 |
Snyder, Wesley |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Surface Metrology Using Range Imaging @ North Carolina State University
This proposal requests an Expedited Award for Novel Research to investigate the feasibility of using optical range imaging to perform non-contact coordinate measuring tasks. Recently developed optical 3-D sensors have the speed and resolution characteristics to make an optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM) theoretically feasible. Use of the proposed optical range imaging approach should produce a speedup of several orders of magnitude over conventional mechanical contacting CMMs, and provide a density of sampling points sufficient to make "reverse engineering" practical. "Reverse engineering" is the production of a CAD description of a part from an actual physical example of such a part. This capability can lead to a dramatic improvement in productivity. Before attempting to design an optical replacement for a CMM, it is necessary to determine what artifacts, if any, may be due to the optical nature of the sensor, how these artifacts may corrupt the accuracy of a measurement, and how such corruptions may be corrected. The research plan is to develop an accurate model of the camera, the surface being scanned, and the noise in the system; and then to determine how to correct for the resulting noise and distortion. The proposed approach is novel because it is mathematically unique, it will use differential geometry to reconstruct range imagery rather than using traditional Fourier methods. The ideas of using an optical range camera to replace the more traditional coordinate measuring machine is a fairly new idea. The idea of applying reconstruction theory to correct for anomalies in this context appears to be completely novel. If successful, this approach could lead to a large impact on industrial efficiency, because the capability to quickly produce accurate solid model representations from a collection of range images of a subject part is badly needed.
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0.915 |
1994 — 2001 |
Rajala, Sarah (co-PI) [⬀] Snyder, Wesley |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center For Advancedcomputing and Communication @ North Carolina State University
9418533 Rajala The North Carolina State University Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Computing and Communication is becoming a multi-university Center with the addition of a research site at Duke University. Four companies are becoming part of the Center inconjunction with Duke University becoming a research site. The research agenda of the new multi-site Center will address high- speed networking, reliable and fault-tolerant systems, digital communication systems, distributed systems, and algorithms and digital image processing algorithms. The researchers are well qualified to perform the Center's research program. The Center is being co-funded with Dr. Yechelzkel Zalcstein in the Division of Computer and Computation Research. The Program Manager recommends North Carolina State University be awarded $55,000 for the first year of a five-year continuing award. This includes $5,000 for an evaluator for the Center. Funding for the second year is to be at the same level amount. Funding for years three through five will be at $30,000 per year (including $5,000 for an evaluator.) Near the end of each 12-month period the Program Manager and/or the Division Director of the Engineering Education Center Division will review the progress of the Center on a number of renewal criteria requirements, including the following: 1) the extent to which the industry/university interaction is developing; 2) the extent to which the support base is developing; and 3) the extent to which a robust research program is developing. If the review is satisfactory, the Program Manager will recommend support for the next period of this continuing award.
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0.915 |
1994 — 1997 |
Rajala, Sarah (co-PI) [⬀] Snyder, Wesley |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Realizability of Potential of Multiuser Detection @ North Carolina State University
9417467 Rajala This is a "TIE" project on the topic of "Realizability of Potential of Multiuser Detection," to be conducted by the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Communications and Signal Processing at North Carolina State University and the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Wireless Information Networks at Rutgers University. The proposed activity is to conduct research to increase realizability and capacity of CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) systems. The proposed project will concentrate on the ability of multiuser detectors to combat multipath fading present in the actual mobile environment. This project is being cost shared with the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Wireless Information Networks at the Rutgers University. The Program Director recommends the North Carolina State University be awarded $50,000 for 24 months for this "TIE" project with Rutgers University.
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0.915 |
1999 — 2008 |
Kekas, Dennis Vouk, Mladen (co-PI) [⬀] Snyder, Wesley |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Nsf Partnership in the Center For Advanced Computing and Communication @ North Carolina State University
ABSTRACT EEC-9980291 SNYDER
This continuing award funds the multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Advanced Computing and Communications for a second five-year period (in accordance with Announcement 97-164). The lead research site is at North Carolina State University with another site at Duke University.
The I/UCRC's research agenda address 1.) Fault Tolerant Systems, 2.) Symptom Based Fault Management in Software Systems, 3.) Microsystems, 4.) Classification on a Remote FPGA Based Custom Computing Machine, 5.) Efficient Simulation of Rare Events in Communication Systems and Networks Using DPR, 6.) Faster and More Reliable Wireless Communications Using Physical Channel Modeling, 7.) Networking, 8.) MTCP: TCP-like Congestion Control for Reliable Multicast, 9.) Midlevel Support for Internet 2 Multicast Application, 10.) Adaptive Scheduling with Statistical QoS Guarantee, 11.) Assessment and Management of Application-Level Quality of Service, 12.) A Protocol for Description of End-User Quality of Service, 13.) Operating System and Middleware Support for Real-Time Client/Server Systems, 14.) Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering in Multi-Protocol Lable Switching Network, 15.) The Availability, Capacity and Performance (ACP) in Wireless Communication Networks, 16.) The Effect of Web Caching on Network Planning, 17.) Secure Network Performance Research, 18.) Image Processing, 19.) Implementation of Hardware for Image Display and Processing, 20.) Image Segmentation using 3-D Active Contours.
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0.915 |