NASA Procurement Office, Code DAOO, Stennis Space Center (SSC), MS 39529-6000

R -- AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY FOR LICENSING DUE 021299 POC Harold G. Taulbee, Contracting Officer, Phone (228) 688-1640, Fax (228) 688-1141, Email harold.taulbee@ssc.nasa.gov -- Jean Gilreath, Procurement Technician, Phone (228) 688-3680, Fax (228) 688-1141, Email jean.gilreath@ssc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/SSC/date.html#TAOO-01. E-MAIL: Harold G. Taulbee, harold.taulbee@ssc.nasa.gov. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks qualified companies interested in licensing and commercializing a predictive sensor algorithm which can improve the response time of existing slow sensor technologies. Researchers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center originally developed the algorithm to speed up the response time in a smart hydrogen detection system. The algorithm can be applied to any slow sensor that responds to a step input, thus increasing the speed of response. The system employes a signal-processing algorithm to determine, in near real time, the steady state response of a normally slow sensor. In its current use, a microprocessor samples the hydrogen sensor's output at small, regular intervals and dynamically predicts the sensor's response to a step change in amount of exposure to hydrogen. The algorithm has been implemented using both C and BASIC programming languages and resides as firmware in Erasable Programming Read Only Memory (EPROM). A patent has been issued on the technology as an algorithm for temperature prediction. Companies interested in a potential license of this patent should contact Kristen Rily of the NASA Technology Transfer Office at the John C. Stennis Space Center, Code TAOO, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000, Phone: 228/688-1929; FAX: 228/688-2408; E-mail: kriley@ssc.nasa.gov. Posted 01/13/99 (D-SN287699). (0013)

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