| An Approach to Human-Robot Collaborative Drilling & Fastening in Aerospace Final Assembly |
- The invention is a new, collaborative, and adaptive robot-based approach to complete drilling and fastening tasks autonomously in an adaptable, unstructured environments using an expert demonstrator and human operator.
- The human trains the robot to autonomously complete tasks by defining its environment and demonstrating how to locate, classify, and insert fasteners into a fuselage using a camera and 3D sensor that surveys the area.
- While the system starts with no information, it can use online and offline learning techniques to develop a data bank of information to utilize throughout the insertion process.
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| Inkjet Printed Multi-Layer mm-Wave Antennas and Passive Components |
- New manufacturing inkjet printing process to create massively scalable 2D and 3D antennas and passive components allows for rapid fabrication and low costs.
- The novel innovation is both flexible and portable, enabling on-demand customization with minimal additional costs.
- The ink manufacturing process has extensive applications from printed RF capacitators and inductors to smart cities, wearables, and skins.
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| Predictive Maintenance System for Large-Scale Operations Offers Potential for Significant Cost Savings |
- Consistent workflow improvements: Offers repeatable and consistent enterprise-level improvements to the maintenance workflow.
- Proactive readiness: Improves maintenance scheduling, allowing for improved logistics, scheduling, virtual kitting, and part/component availability.
- Customizable: Customers can build and tailor their PMx solutions according to their needs, providing increased data control and an alternative to costly and limited solutions.
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| High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, Low-Power Wireless Tracking Tags |
- Low-cost, ultra-low power wireless tag for real-time asset tracking
- Passive wireless tag costs less than $1 to manufacture and can operate for several years with maintenance-free operation
- Compatible with off-the-shelf devices, making it ideal for efficient inventory control in multiple industries
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| Microgeodes Enable Tunable Optical Response for Advanced Coatings/Paint |
- Microgeodes have a programmable structure of nanowires that allows their optical response to be engineered precisely over multiple spectral bands, from UV through mid-IR.
- Microgeodes combine the tunability and versatility of nanowires with the processability of microspheres to provide a photonic materials platform for a wide range of applications.
- Microgeode paints could reduce building surface temperatures by as much as 25°C, offering the potential for significant consumer savings while retaining aesthetically pleasing colors.
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| Solar Cell Manufacturing Technique Increases Efficiency and Lowers Costs |
- This double-side polysilicon/silicon oxide TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cell concept provides a simple and low-cost way to passivate front and back surfaces of silicon wafers to enhance efficiency.
- Provides current and voltage comparable to full-area double-side TOPCon but with no appreciable absorption in front polysilicon and without compromising short circuit current density
- Includes a novel and fast way to pattern polysilicon using laser-induced selective oxidation
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| Advanced Error Measurement System for Additive Manufacturing Machines |
- Advanced technology for precise error measurement in AM machine optomechanical systems
- Innovative laser-based method to identify and correct focal errors in PBF-LB AM machines
- Comprehensive approach enhances machine performance and output quality
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| Device Continuously Separates Functionalized Magnetic Microparticles from Solids to Yield Benefits for the Pharmaceutical Industry and More |
- Magnetic force is used to enhance traditional solid-solid separation techniques to yield a high-purity product stream and continuously return catalyst to a reactor.
- The device is capable of continuous separation for multiple hours and can be parallelized or ran in series to improve solids throughput and separation efficiency.
- This technology could help accelerate the adoption of continuous, heterogeneously catalyzed reactive crystallizations and, more generally, expand the chemistries and processes fit for continuous manufacturing.
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| Superluminescent Light Projection (SLP) System Decreases Nanoscale Printing Costs by 10–50 Times |
- This superluminescent light projection (SLP) system decreases overall nanoscale printing costs by 10–50 times.
- A parallel writing mechanism supports higher throughput speeds: up to 100 times higher than existing metal printing methods and four times higher than existing polymer printing methods.
- SLP creates sharp-edged images with minimal speckling patterns, resulting in high-resolution images and structures on both polymer and metal-based films.
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| High-Precision, Hands-Free Remote Control of Complex Robotic Systems Via Eye Movements |
- This two-camera eye-tracking system (TCES) integrates a commercial eye tracker with machine-learning technology for continuous real-time classification of gaze and eye directions for robotic arm control.
- The system provides highly accurate classification for four directions of eye movement and has achieved 99.99% accuracy in studies.
- Using simple eye movement, the TCES offers low-cost, high-precision control of external devices/hardware for people with disabilities, surgery robots, warehouse systems, construction tools, and more.
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| Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with Unique Input Design that Significantly Reduces Computational Costs of Complex Engineering Systems |
- Neural network’s novel input can utilize first-order schemes and local patches and allows for discontinuities to be reflected accurately and with greater resolution than existing products.
- This adaptable ANN can be adopted by commercial and scientific research as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with existing software.
- Lower costs for running complex and repetitive computations can be achieved by implementing this neural network with an input system that processes low-cost numerical solution patches arising from two or more converging solutions.
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| Lightweight, Versatile Cryogenic Conductors |
- Lithium exhibits lower atomic mass, higher power density, and lower losses under cryogenic conditions
- Conductors such as lithium become even more power-dense at lower temperatures, exhibiting improved electrical performance
- Cladding with copper enables lithium to be drawn using standard wire-drawing techniques and tools
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| Hybrid Molecular Catalysts: A New Blueprint for Catalyst Design, Preparation, and Testing |
- Attachment of molecular catalysts to solid supports can lead to new reactivity not seen under homogeneous conditions
- At an optimal atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer thickness, the molecular catalyst remains highly active while still being resistant to surface detachment and subsequent deactivation
- Catalyst separation and recovery achieved via a simple filtering and washing process rather than energy- and time-intensive distillation or re-crystallization processes
- In addition to the simple filter-and-wash process mentioned above, encapsulation requires only about 10 reaction cycles, making this process technologically and economically viable for large-scale manufacturing
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