Landmines represent a serious and lasting threat to public health throughout the world. Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) cause severe injury, death, and duress, often denying people access to their homes and land. The fundamental goal of the RAT system was to train naive rats to detect and locate explosive odorants using Pavlovian conditioning procedures […]
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Upset Recovery Team Conducts Piloted Simulation Evaluation of Recovery Guidance Technology
The Barron Associates upset recovery team recruited local commercially rated pilots to visit Barron Associates simulator facility and evaluate the Damage Adaptive Guidance for Piloted Upset Recovery technology. The evaluation pilots provided valuable feedback commenting that the visual recovery guidance “definitely provides the guidance to help you get back under control” and is “very useful […]
Diesel Engine Cylinder Output Balancing Experiments Underway
Barron Associates and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have initiated testing and data collection in support of Army-funded research into Adaptive Inter-Cylinder Output Balancing for Diesel Engines. Cylinder power output imbalance is ubiquitous in internal combustion engines and imparts potentially damaging vibrations that can reduce engine component life. The experiments are being conducted in SwRI’s diesel […]
Paper on Barron Associates’ Virtual Occupational Therapy Application (VOTA) Published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
“Assessing Upper Extremity Motor Function in Practice of Virtual Activities of Daily Living” by Rick Adams, Matt Lichter, and Eileen Krepkovich (along with our UVa HealthSouth partners Allison Ellington, OT, Marga White, OT, and Paul Diamond, M.D.) has been accepted to and published in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The paper […]
Barron Associates’ GEMINI System Successfully Tested on Neonates
Due to improvements in obstetrical and neonatal care, and an associated decrease in perinatal mortality, as well as increased risks associated with in vitro fertilization procedures, the number of preterm, very low birth weight (< 1,500 g) neonates born is growing. These infants have an increased risk of long-term developmental disabilities, with 5-15% exhibiting major […]
Successful Demonstration of Blink-based Communication System in Human Participant Tests
Barron Associates’ patent-pending Blink-based Communication System is designed to provide a virtual call button, allowing Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and others with severe speech and mobility impairments to reliably signal for help any time they are in bed simply by blinking. Using only remotely mounted sensors, the system is unobtrusive yet able to reliably […]
Successful Preliminary Usability Testing of the LimbTeq Energy Expenditure Monitor for Amputees
Barron Associates’ LimbTeq system is an accurate, low-profile, and convenient metabolic energy expenditure and physical activity monitor that is compatible with lower limb prostheses. The LimbTeq system collects these data through custom electronic sensors embedded within the prosthetic liner, and provides real-time user feedback via a wireless handheld touchscreen device. Such feedback will be helpful […]
Successful Testing of Virtual Occupational Therapy Assistant (VOTA) Prototype
Virtual Occupational Therapy Assistant (VOTA) is a computer-based virtual world in which stroke patients practice activities of daily living (ADLs), combining low-cost human motion tracking, commercial game engine technology, and evidence-based Occupational Therapy (OT) practice. In recently completed testing at the UVa HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital, fourteen stroke survivors successfully used the system in four one-hour […]