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 […]
Barron Associates’ Publication Recognized by AIAA as Best Paper at the 2014 Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference
A paper coauthored by Jared Cooper (Barron Associates) and Dr. Morelli (Sunflyte Enterprises) was named co-recipient of the AIAA Best Paper from the 2014 Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference. The paper entitled “Frequency-Domain Method for Automated Simulation Updates based on Flight Data” describes a statistically-based frequency-domain method for using flight data to update aerodynamic data […]
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 Awarded Grant for Development of Blink-based Communication System
Barron Associates has been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a blink-based communication system. The system will allow amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and others with severely restricted speech and mobility to communicate effectively even when they are not in front of a computer. Human participant tests […]
Barron Associates Receives Grant from National Institutes of Health to Develop Novel Home-based Sleep Monitoring System
Barron Associates, in collaboration with the University of Virginia, is developing the SoundTrak system: a low-cost sleep monitor for use in individuals’ home environments to noninvasively, ergonomically, and automatically acquire and analyze high-frequency inspiratory sounds pertaining to obstructive sleep-disordered breathing. The SoundTrak system will collect low- and high-frequency sound data via a highly-portable computing base […]
Rick Adams and Brian Clark promoted to Principal Research Scientist
Barron Associates would like to congratulate Rick Adams and Brian Clark, both of whom were promoted to Principal Research Scientist in August. Rick is presently serving as Principal Investigator (PI) for multiple U.S. Air Force and National Institutes of Health (NIH) projects. Brian is a PI on several current NIH programs and has played a […]
Barron Associates Selected by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to Develop a Field-Side Sports Concussion Assessment
This research aims to provide rapid and objective oculomotor function assessment using low-cost tablet/smart-phone devices that are readily available field-side. The mobile Sports-Concussion Oculomotor Response Evaluation (mobileSCORE) tool may then be used in conjunction with additional concussion evaluation techniques to protect youth athletes from premature return-to-play following a potential concussive injury. The effort includes a […]
Barron Associates Selected by NASA to Develop Technology that Visually Guides Pilots Through Recovery from Aircraft Upset Situations
Barron Associates Upset Recovery Teams, led by Dr. Nathan Richards, has been selected for award by NASA. This program will provide pilots with visual guidance to assist in recovery from aircraft upset condition including situations of vehicle failure/impairment. The approach also explicitly considers the wide range of pilot dynamic behavior and the impact the variation […]