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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 94 - Reno - November 2004
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry, and University Reports 4.2.2 Research Institutes and Companies 4.2.2.7 Systems Technology, Inc.
Title	Systems Technology, Inc.
Presenter	Dave Klyde
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Abstract	A common thread through these current activities is the importance of terrain modeling. We begin with a recently awarded Phase II SBIR from the MDA that is concerned with long endurance autonomous vehicle control. The focus of this work is on station keeping of a high altitude airship over a given terrain. A new Navy Phase I STTR that is being conducted with MIT is focused on automated path control and mission planning for aerial platforms under dynamic conditions and constraints. The objective is to improve dynamic path planning by incorporating wide-area terrain data bases. In a new Phase I SBIR for the Air Force, next generation visualization tools for mission planning, briefing, and after action review is being developed for use on notebook computers. In this effort flight planning and mission profile data will be overlaid on a realistic 3D terrain model. In an ongoing Phase II SBIR for the Army Research Laboratory, a fully nonlinear, multi-body biodynamic model has been developed to assess the effect of vibrations on human operator performance from vehicles traversing off road terrain. Data collected from the Army TACOM ride motion simulator is currently being used to validate the biodynamic model. Finally, a new tire detread model has been added to VDANL, STI’s ground vehicle computer simulation model. Tire vibrational forces that result from the detread are superimposed on those computed from the composite slip tire model.