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FY02 Annual Program Review Meeting

The Sensors and Automation (S&A) Crosscutting Program conducted its FY 2002 Annual Review Meeting on June 11-13, 2002, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting featured presentations on the 11 crosscutting S&A projects. In addition, the agenda included presentations on three related Small Business Innovative Research projects as well as presentations by four researchers with other Industrial Technologies Programs (ITP). The latter are scheduled to work with the S&A Program to investigate the crosscutting applicability of their technologies.

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Crosscutting S&A Project Presentations

  • On-line wall measurement of steel tubes using laser ultrasonic technology (Bob Kolarik, The Timken Company) (PDF 1.9 MB)
  • In situ, real-time measurement of melt constituents (Robert De Saro and Arel Weisberg, Energy Research Company) (PDF 1.3 MB)
  • Integrated sensing and control applied to cupola furnaces (Denis Clark, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory) (PDF 302 KB)
  • Intelligent extruder for diagnostics control of polymer compounding (Aditya Kumar, GE Research and Development) (PDF 730 KB)
  • Sensor fusion for intelligent process control (Robert Hillaire, Sandia National Laboratory; Philip Smith, University of Utah) (PDF 204 KB)
  • Thermal imaging control (Serguei Zelepouga, Gas Technology Institute) (PDF 393 KB)
  • Diagnostics and control of natural gas fired furnaces via flame image analysis using machine vision and artificial intelligence techniques (Shahla Keyvan, University of Missouri-Columbia) (PDF 845 KB)
  • A rugged, low-cost diode laser sensor for combustion applications (Peter DeBarber, MetroLaser) (PDF 958 KB)
  • Tunable diode laser sensors for monitoring and control of harsh combustion environments (William Von Drasek, Air Liquide) (PDF 1.8 MB)
  • Remote automatic material on-line sensor (Erik Magnuson, Quantum Magnetics) (PDF 301 KB)
  • Solid state sensors for monitoring hydrogen (Anthony McDaniel, Sandia National Laboratory) (PDF 968 KB)
  • Wireless telemetry for industrial applications (Wayne Manges, Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (PDF 876 KB)

Other Invited S&A-related Project Presentations

  • Portable parallel beam x-ray diffraction system for in-line process control (David Gibson and Tom Bievenue, X-ray Optical Systems) (PDF 2.6 MB)
  • Sandia's µChemLabTM in industrial applications (Alex Robinson, Sandia National Laboratory) (PDF 1.2 MB)

Programmatic Presentation

  • S&A Program: Increasing the crosscutting nature of the Program's portfolio of projects (John Coates, S&A Steering Committee) (PDF 885 KB)