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Falls and fall-related injuries in seniors are more common than strokes and can have equally serious consequences; they represent a significant health care problem with a substantial associated morbidity and reduction in overall mobility and function.  Barron Associates developed the EverWrist fall monitoring system that employs a novel, patent-protected paradigm to detect falls, and will […]

NASA profiled Barron Associates as one of two companies in its presentation at the Aerospace Days event in Richmond on February 3, 2016. NASA highlighted the work Barron Associates has contributed to NASA’s technical mission and the economic benefits to the Commonwealth. Illustrating the presentation was Rick Adams’ tactile-feedback astronaut glove for the use of […]

VOTA is virtual world-based software that enables a stroke patient to practice activities of daily living using only a computer and a Microsoft Kinect sensor. February 3, 2016 marked the first major release of the VOTA software and initiation of clinical trials with stroke patients at a rehabilitation hospital. At the time of this release, […]

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-8.18 engineering subcommittee establishes standardized methodologies for modeling and simulating wireless communications in public safety systems.  Over the past two years, it has undertaken the update of Telecommunications Systems Bulletin (TSB)-88.2 and the creation of TSB-88.4 and TSB-88.5 to address the coming introduction of broadband systems (most notably in the […]

Barron Associates marked the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its first NASA contract with a pizza lunch at company headquarters.  That first contract began on January 16, 1991 and was an SBIR Phase I awarded by NASA Langley Research Center, entitled “Adaptive Nonlinear Polynomial Neural Networks for Rotorcraft Cabin Noise Reduction.”  A quarter-century of […]

The BENEFIT system is a computer-based fall risk assessment instrument for use by health and elder care providers. The BENEFIT instrument ensures that individuals at increased risk for falling are identified and provided with appropriate interventions to reduce fall occurrences. Bayesian belief networks are the key technology that enables faster and more accurate fall assessments; […]

Barron Associates has entered an agreement to work with the Federal Aviation Agency’s (FAA) Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) for flight testing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).  MAAP is located at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia, and was designated by the FAA to be one of six official test sites for […]

Barron Associates recently presented to papers at the AIAA SciTech 2016 Conference at an invited session on Loss of Control. The first paper, entitled “Development and Pilot-In-The-Loop Evaluation of Robust Upset-Recovery Guidance,”  focused on the idea that Aircraft Loss-Of-Control (LOC) has been a longstanding contributor to fatal aviation accidents. The research presented herein is structured to […]

A paper entitled “Flight-Test Evaluation of an Adaptive Controller for Flying Qualities Specification and Protection,” co-authored by Barron Associates’ Dr. Nathan Richards and Dr. Richard Adams, was published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics December 2015 issue.  This article focuses on the in-flight ability of an adaptive receding horizon optimal controller to both […]

On October 10, 2015, Dr. Rick Adams of Barron Associates, Inc. gave an invited presentation to the University of Virginia SIE Colloquium on the development of virtual world based games for upper extremity stroke rehabilitation. The talk included an overview of evidence-based stroke rehabilitation and neuroplasticity as it relates to development of Barron Associates’ Virtual Occupational […]