12/04/2009 TRACLabs Awarded Army Robotics Contract
The US Army has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth $70,000 over six months. The contract is to design a compact stereo vision system for use on small unmanned ground vehicles.
11/23/2009 TRACLabs Awarded Four NASA Robotics and Automation Contracts
NASA has awarded TRACLabs Inc. two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts and two Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts worth almost $400,000. The awards include: 1) Distributed Diagnosis, Prognosis and Recovery for Complex Systems (with Vanderbilt University); 2) Integration of Notification with 3D Visualization of Rover Operations (with Carnegie Mellon University); 3) Advanced Modeling Tools for Controlling Complex Assets Across Time Delay; and 4) Software Agents for Group Awareness and Inter-agent Conflict Management.
11/02/2009
TRACLabs Awarded Air Force Automation Contract
The US Air Force has awarded TRACLabs inc. a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth nearly $750,000 to develop on-board automation software for satellite control. The technology is called the Highly Autonomous Mission Manager for Event Response (HAMMER).
10/06/2009 TRACLabs Awarded Three NASA Automation Contracts
NASA has awarded TRACLabs Inc. three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts worth $1.8 million over two years. One contract will transition TRACLabs automation technology into NASA Johnson Space Center's next generation Mission Control Center (MCC).
Another contract will apply TRACLabs automation technology to optimization of NASA JPL's Deep Space Network. The third will apply TRACLabs technology to analyzing human factors incidents in crewed space missions.
09/01/29
TRACLabs Awarded DARPA Robotics Contracts
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a six-month, $100,000 contract to design a robot system that can perform tasks such as juggling, playing drums, typing on a keyboard, threading a needle and using tools such as hammers and saws. TRACLabs will apply technology developed under NASA's Robonaut program to accomplish this task.
08/12/2009 TRACLabs Awarded DARPA Robotics Contract
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a two-year, $750,000 contract to develop an intelligent robot that reasons about its sensing abilities and changes its behaviors accordingly. This technology has broad applications to intelligence, sensing and reconnaissance (ISR) tasks using robots and other unmanned vehicles.
02/12/2009 TRACLabs Awarded Air Force Planning Contract
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a one-year, $100,000 contract to develop planning technology that will enable reconnaissance satellites to respond quickly to new situations and threats. The planning technology is envisioned to run on-board satellites and operate autonomously from ground controllers.
11- 24-08 TRACLabs Tech In Inaugural Parade
We assisted NASA in developing the Lunar rover prototype that participated in the inaugural parade in DC. Our Biclops PT is also a part of the rover. (larger video)
November 24, 2008 TRACLabs Inc. wins three NASA Phase I SBIR awards
TRACLabs Inc. has been notified by NASA that it has been awarded three Phase I Small Business Innovation Research awards worth approximately $300,000. The awards are entitled: “Intelligent Agents for Scheduling Space Communications”, “Embedding Procedure Assistance into Mission Control Tools”, and “Semantic Language and Tools for Reporting Human Factors Incidents”.
November 24, 2008 TRACLabs Inc. wins one NASA Phase I STTR award
TRACLabs Inc. has been notified by NASA that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer award worth approximately $100,000. The research will be conducted in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley and is entitled “Semantic Summarization for Context Aware Manipulation of Data”.
October 28, 2008 TRACLabs Inc, wins one NASA Phase II SBIR award
TRACLabs Inc. has been notified by NASA that it has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research award worth approximately $600,000. The research award is entitled: " Enhancing NASA's Procedure Representation Language to Support Planning".
November 16, 2007 TRACLabs Inc. wins one NASA Phase 1 SBIR award
TRACLabs Inc. has been notified by NASA that it has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research award worth approximately $100,000. The research award is entitled: " Enhancing NASA's Procedure Representation Language to Support Planning".
October 11, 2007 TRACLabs Inc. wins three NASA Phase 2 SBIR awards
TRACLabs Inc. has been notified by NASA that it has been awarded three Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research awards worth approximately $1,800,000. The three research awards are entitled: "A Data Abstraction Architecture for Spacecraft Autonomy", "A Software Framework for Coordinating Human-Robot Teams" and "A Field Reconfigurable Manipulator for Rovers".
November 17, 2006 TRACLabs Inc. wins three NASA Phase 1 SBIR awards
TRACLabs Inc. has been notified by NASA that it has been awarded three Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research awards worth approximately $300,000. Each award can lead to a Phase 2 award worth up to $1.8 million in total. The three research awards are entitled: "A Data Abstraction Architecture for Spacecraft Autonomy", "A Software Framework for Coordinating Human-Robot Teams" and "A Field Reconfigurable Manipulator for Rovers".
November 1, 2006 TRACLabs Inc. awarded multi-year NASA contract
TRACLabs Inc. and its partner SKA Inc. have been awarded a 5-year, $20 million dollar contract to perform robotics and artificial intelligence research for NASA Johnson Space Center's Automation, Robotics and Simulation Division.