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Perfect Buns: Imaging System Controls Baking Process on Production Line to Improve Sandwich Bun Quality

By Guest PostMarch 10, 2011Sciencebaketech, baking equipment manufacturer, baking process, baking technology systems, biscuits, bread, colin usher, cookies, crackers, douglas britton, flowers foods, flowers foods bakery, gtri, imaging system, las vegas, oven temperatures, pies, production line system, sandwich buns, secret to baking perfect buns, stephen smith, thomasville, tucker

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) may possess the secret to baking perfect buns every time. Its researchers have developed a production-line system that automatically inspects the quality of sandwich buns exiting the oven and adjusts oven temperatures if it detects unacceptable buns.

“We have closed the loop between the quality inspection of buns and the oven controls to meet the specifications required by food service and fast food customers,” said GTRI senior research engineer Douglas Britton. “By creating a more accurate, uniform and faster assessment process, we are able to minimize waste and lost product.” (more…)

Computerizing Critical Information: GTRI Supports Health Resources Information Systems in Kenya and Zimbabwe

By Guest PostFebruary 13, 20111 commentHealth, Technologyafrican nations, aids, automate, christopher skeels, computer database, emory university, george bush, gtri, health care, health planning, hiv, human resource information systems, human resource management, judith wold, Kenya, kenya health work force project, khwfp, lillian carter center, malaria, martha rogers, nursing council, robert delano, software, software evaluation protocol, tuberculosis, zimbabwe

Researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are helping to automate human resource information systems for health care professionals in two African nations, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

In collaboration with Emory University’s Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and the Task Force for Global Health, GTRI is evaluating and advising on computer systems developed to provide information for better human resource management, policy development and health planning. (more…)

Phased-Array Radar: GTRI Supports Test and Evaluation of Next Generation Jammer

By Guest PostDecember 17, 20101 commentWeaponsadvanced technology company, aircraft, antenna design, bennett aerospace, daniel leatherwood, douglas bennett, ea 18g growler, f 35, ground to air missiles, gtri, naval air command, next generation jammer, northrop grumman corp, novel device, phased array radar technology, radar jammer, radar signals, sbir, small business innovation research, us military aircraft, us navy

Researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Bennett Aerospace Inc., a North Carolina advanced-technology company, have won a contract to develop the capability for testing a new type of radar jammer for the U.S. Navy. Called the Next Generation Jammer, this novel device will utilize phased-array radar technology in ways that could provide U.S. military aircraft greater protection from ground-to-air missiles.

GTRI is working with Bennett Aerospace on innovative technologies that will be necessary to thoroughly test the Next Generation Jammer. Bennett Aerospace recently received a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award for development of a Phased Array Next-Generation Jammer Testbed. This new award, from the Naval Air Command, follows a $150,000 Phase I contract that involved the same technology. (more…)

UAV-UGV Collaboration: GTRI Demonstrates at Army Robotics Rodeo How Autonomous Vehicles Work Together

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2010Technology, Weaponsalgorithm, autonomous collaboration, charles pippin, collaborative unmanned systems technology demonstrator, custd, falconview, georgia tech research institute, gtri, lora weiss, porsche cayenne, robotic technology, robotic vehicles, robotics rodeo 2010, signal- and data-processing, uavs, ugv, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicle, us army

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are poised to show the U.S. Army an advanced approach to enabling autonomous collaboration among dissimilar robotic vehicles. (more…)

Directed Energy Weapons: New System Developed to Test and Evaluate High-Energy Laser Weapons

By Guest PostAugust 24, 2010Weapons50-kilowatt fiber laser, aircraft, cruise missiles, david roberts, directed energy weapons, georgia tech research institute, gtri, high-energy lasers, kirtland air force base, laser energy, leon glebov, matthew vickers, nathan meraz, optigrate, photo-thermo-refractive glass, sodium-zinc-aluminum-silicate glass, speed of light, tim norwood

Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance have been in development for many years. Today, these technologies — known as directed energy weapons — are maturing to the point of becoming deployable.

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Teraflop Troubles: The Power of Graphics Processing Units May Threaten the World’s Password Security System

By Guest PostAugust 23, 2010Technologyamd, brute forcing, carl mastrangelo, georgia tech, georgia tech research institute, gpu, graphics processing unit, gtri, nvidia corp, password protection, richard boyd, seven-character password, software programs, supercomputer, Technology

It’s been called revolutionary – technology that lends supercomputer-level power to any desktop. What’s more, this new capability comes in the form of a readily available piece of hardware, a graphics processing unit (GPU) costing only a few hundred dollars.