Neural Networks for Intelligent Space Systems

Netrologic, Inc.

San Diego, CA

Neural networks to accomplish shuttle main engine diagnostics, Atlas rocket valve diagnostics, and satellite cryogenic fuel mass estimates

• Developed neural networks to solve all of the above engineering problems
  
• Obtained follow-on technology contracts

• Obtained more than $4 M in follow-on R&D funds
  
• Expected doubling of employees in 1996
  
• Currently pursuing venture funding to commercialize follow-on technology
  
• The following is a partial list of Netrologic’s R&D programs which were funded externally for a total amount exceeding five million dollar:

Sponsor           Name of Program (reverse
                        chronological order)

• NASA Application of a 3D Transform to Recognition of Occluded Objects from Multiframe Sensor Imagery
• GE Training and consulting on Parallel Processing and Transputers
• AM Automatic Handwritten Digit Recognition
• GE Determination of Goodness of Inertial Welds using Neural Networks
• NASA Immunized Neural Network for Sensory System Fusion
• NASA Robotic Analog of Biological Tissue for Mechanical Transduction

• NAVY Neural Networks and Robotics Applied to the Nondestructive Inspection of Aircraft
• NASA Human-Machine Interaction in Human Assisted Robotic Systems
• NASA Development of a Natural Language Interface to a Geographical System
• NASA Neural Network Path Planning and Digital Adaptive Control of Redundant Robots
• NASA A Feasibility Study of Discrete Adaptive Control and Adaptive Neural Networks for Robot Manipulators
• NASA Adaptive Image Encoding and Classification Using Neural Networks
• NASA A Natural Language Interface to a Geographic Information System
• NASA Space Transportation Analysis and Intelligent Space Systems

GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS

• Diagnostics are critical to NASA and industrial community for rocket engine testing and performance monitoring

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