Advanced Algorithms to Enhance Mobile Autonomous Robots

Pictured is a pattern master screen for mobile autonomous robots that, thanks to small business innovation research-enabled algorithms advancing artificial intelligence to new levels, will ultimately leverage neural control systems technology to adapt and improvise their behavior.

Advanced Algorithms to Enhance Mobile Autonomous Robots

Pictured is a control panel screen for mobile autonomous robots, which are among the many capabilities that could benefit from the advanced algorithms being developed through AFRL Small Business Innovation Research.

AFRL Technology Milestone logo

AFRL Technology Milestone logo

Reconfigurable FPGAs Designed for Satellite Program

An AFRL/industry collaboration is developing a space-hardened version of Xilinx Corporation's latest field-programmable gate array (FPGA) product: the Single-Event-Upset (SEU) Immune Reconfigurable FPGA, or SIRF. SIRF is under consideration as an alternative to custom chips on military satellites.

Coalition data broker

Coalition data broker enables metadata sharing between distributed common ground station and the CSD. AFRL Image.

Coalition data broker

Coalition data broker enables metadata sharing between distributed common ground station and the CSD. AFRL Image.

Prof and graduate students investigate space applications of terahertz technology

Working under an AFRL-funded Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program, Prof Daniel van der Weide and graduate students Rashmi Pahak and Min Choi investigate space applications of terahertz technology at the University of Wisconsin (UW) (photo credit: Jim Beal, UW-Madison College of Engineering).

Antireflective properties of moth eyes

AFRL funds academic researchers to build upon the antireflective properties of moth eyes in order to make better protective skins for unmanned air vehicles. National Taiwan University’s Prof Li-Chyong Chen has produced an antireflective nanostructure surface using arrayed silicon nanotips (photo courtesy of Prof Chen).

250°C thin film capacitor

250°C thin film capacitor

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Night sight technology

Small arms featuring night sight technology devised by Optical Systems Technology, Inc. Photo Credit: Air Force Image

Member of the 194th Air Support Operations Group and water sample

Member of the 194th Air Support Operations Group, Air National Guard (pictured left); labeled water samples (pictured right) Photo Credit: Air Force Image

AFOSR Shield

AFOSR Shield

AFRL develops fixes to address JHMCS failures

A fighter pilot wearing a Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System is shown on the left. Helmet repairs developed by Air Force Research Laboratory engineers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are shown on the right. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

AFRL e-LINCS

AFRL e-LINCS program logo and process diagram

Unique “fingerprint” of an artificial atom’s energy-level structure.

Amplitude spectroscopy generates a unique “fingerprint” of an artificial atom’s energy-level structure. This fingerprint comprises quantum interference patterns that form an energy landscape in the space of flux and microwave field amplitude. The peaks and valleys of this landscape take the shape of diamonds and, like a fingerprint, provide a unique snapshot of the atom’s energy-level structure (image courtesy of S.O. Valenzuela and W.D. Oliver).

Small Business Innovation Research developed standard space trainer

Small Business Innovation Research developed standard space trainer. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

Fusion Center Organizational Effectiveness program roadmap

Fusion Center Organizational Effectiveness program roadmap. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

AFRL scientists fabricate metamaterial that compresses light into tighter spaces

AFRL-funded scientists at the University of California at Berkeley fabricate metamaterial that compresses light into tighter spaces, improving optical communications, computation and detection, and camouflage capabilities. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

Portable MAPstation™ processor

Portable MAPstation™ processor created by SRC Computers, Inc. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Beverley Thompson).

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Scientists use metamaterial to compress light

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded scientists at the University of California at Berkeley fabricated a new type of metamaterial that bends light backwards, in a way that does not exist in nature. Such metamaterial compresses light into tighter spaces and improves optical communication, computation and detection, and camouflage capabilities. (U.S. Air Force Graphic)

AFRL color crest

Air Force Research Laboratory is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Image provided by the Institute of Heraldry. In accordance with Chapter 3 of AFI 84-105, commercial reproduction of this emblem is NOT permitted without the permission of the proponent organizational/unit commander. The image is 7x7 inches @ 300 dpi.

ASC Crest

Aeronautical Systems Center crest. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the home of ASC. Image provided by the Institute of Heraldry. In accordance with Chapter 3 of AFI 84-105, commercial reproduction of this emblem is NOT permitted without the permission of the proponent organizational/unit commander. The image is 7x7 inches @ 300 dpi.