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Award ID | Description | Recipient | Total Value | Awarding Agency | Funding Agency | Set Aside | NAICS | PSC | Award Date | Start Date | End Date | |
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| IGF::OT::IGF SBIR SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH SPEECH INTERFACE METHODS FOR INCREASINGLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE OPERATIONS SOUTHERN AIR AVIATION INC. HAS DEVELOPED A NEXTGEN VOICE ACTIVATED COCKPIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (VACMS) UNDER PHASE 1 AND PHASE 2 SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) EFFORTS WITH APPLICATIONS FOR FLIGHT PROCEDURES, CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS, AND FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX ARCHITECTURES, THE SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZES SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS IN A UNIFIED MODEL THAT IS BOTH LANGUAGE- AND SAFETY-CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT AS A NEXT GENERATION AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (NEXTGEN) CONCEPT. THE CONTRACTOR, SOUTHERN AIR AVIATION, INC., DEVELOPED THE VOICE-ACTIVATED COCKPIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, VACMS, UNDER SBIR PHASE II CONTRACT NNX14CL16C. THIS SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM EMPLOYS A NOVEL HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL DECISION MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM USING SYNTHETIC LEXICON FOR PARSING AND CONTIGUOUS RECOGNITION TO ACHIEVE VERY HIGH RECOGNITION RATES (98%) FROM A VERY LARGE COMMAND SET (130,000 COMMANDS)). THE PROPOSED PHASE III EXPLORES SPECIFIC APPLICATION TAILORING FOR THIS PRODUCT WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY ADDRESSES IDENTIFIED NEEDS UNDER THE AVIATION OPERATIONS AND SAFETY PROGRAM, SAFE AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS OPERATIONS (SASA) PROJECT AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS | SOUTHERN AIR AVIATION INC | $1,125,000 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR41 | Apr 13, 2015 | Apr 13, 2015 | May 24, 2018 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES (GPWS, TCAS, FMS, WAAS, ESV, ADS-B) IMPROVED FLIGHT SAFETY BUT ENGENDERED MORE COMPLEXITY AND INCREASED PILOT/COMPUTER INTERACTION AND WORKLOAD WITH AVIATION ACCIDENT RATE UNCHANGED FOR THE PAST DECADE. COCKPIT INTERACTIONS WOULD BE SAFER AND MORE EFFICIENT THORUGH VOICE COMMUNICATION. THOUGH VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS ARE BECOMING WIDELY USED, IN FLIGHT ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS USAGE HAS BEEN LIMITED DUE TO THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF ELEVATED NOISE LEVELS, SPECIFIC COCKPIT LEXICON, LIMITED COCKPIT HARDWARE, AND LACK OF STANDARDIZATION. SOUTHERNAIR AVIATION INC. HAS DEVELOPED A NEXTGEN VOICE ACTIVATED COCKPIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH APPLICATIONS FOR FLIGHT PROCEDURES, EMERGENCY PROCEDURES, CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AND FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX ARCHITECTURES, THE SYSTEM SYNCRONIZES SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS IN A UNIFIED MODEL OF BOTH LANGUAGE AND SAFETY CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT TO VOICE ACTIVATE FUNCTIONS USING NEXTGEN VOICE RECOGNITION WITH HEURISTIC PILOT RESPONSE. PROCEDURES ARE ENABLED THROUGH WIRELESS BLUETOOTH CONNECTION OR WIRED COMMUNICATION. ADDITIONAL TOOLS OF THE SYSTEM INCLUDE A NOVEL HMM MODEL COMPRISING A DECISION MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM AND SYNTHETIC LEXICON FOR PARSING AND CONTIGUOUS RECOGNITION. ALL THE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS ARE MET WITHIN A 2% TIME-SLICE OF A 700MHZ POWER PC PROCESSOR AND WITHIN 1 GB OF MEMORY. UNIQUE KEY APABILITIES INCLUDE: AUTOMATIC LEXICON DEVELOPMENT, PHONETIC DISTANCE ANALYSIS, COARTICULATION HANDLING, ACCENT TOLERABILITY. THE NEXTGEN ADVANCED PERFORMANCE RELIES ON ALLOPHONE PARSING AND REDUCED RECOGNITION ERROR WITH DATA PROCESSING IN REALTIME, IDEAL FOR CRITICAL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. THIS SYSTEM IS REMARKABLE IN THAT IT ACHIEVES VERY HIGH RECOGNITION RATES (98%) WITH A VERY LARGE COMMAND SET (131,000 UNIQUE WORDS AND THOUSANDS OF WORD COMBINATIONS). | SOUTHERN AIR AVIATION INC | $748,151 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | May 13, 2014 | May 13, 2014 | Nov 12, 2014 | ||
| IGF::OT::IGF SPEAKING TO THE COCKPIT AS A METHOD OF SYSTEM MANAGEMENT IN FLIGHT CAN BECOME AN EFFECTIVE INTERACTION METHOD, SINCE VOICE COMMUNICATION IS VERY EFFICIENT. AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION IN GENERAL, AND AIDED AND ABETTED NOW BY SOUTHERN AIR AVIATION'S VOICE ACTIVATED COCKPIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE INNOVATIVE HEURISTIC TECHNOLOGY VOICE-FLIGHT NEXGEN (VFNG) HAS ADVANCED SIGNIFICANTLY IN RECENT YEARS AND IS NOW IDEALLY SUITED TO THIS APPLICATION. VFNG IS SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT, ACHIEVES A WORD RECOGNITION RATE OF 98% IN HIGH NOISE AND UP TO 120DB, AND PERMITS THE CHAINING OF UP TO FOUR COMMANDS IN A SINGLE UTTERANCE AND A CORRECTION OF A MISSPOKEN COMMAND IN THE SAME UTTERANCE. ALL OF THESE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS ARE MET WITHIN A 2% TIME-SLICE OF A 1.2GHZ POWER PC PROCESSOR AND WITHIN 1 GB OF MEMORY. VFNG INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING UNIQUE KEY CAPABILITIES, GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT, DICTIONARY DEVELOPMENT, AUTOMATED BATCH GRAMMAR TESTING, GRAMMAR COVERAGE QUERY, PHONETIC DISTANCE ANALYSIS, AND CO ARTICULATION HANDLING, COMMAND BASED CONFIDENCE ALGORITHM, ACCENT TOLERABILITY HANDLING, STATE BASED DYNAMIC GRAMMAR, AND CLIPPED AUDIO RECOVERY PROCESSING. VFNG INCORPORATES PROPRIETARY JULIUS BASED GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY OF ADVANCED PERFORMANCE AND REDUCED RECOGNITION ERROR TOGETHER WITH AN ACOUSTIC MODEL DERIVED FROM THE VOXFORGE ACOUSTIC MODEL. THE VFNG-EMERGENCY FAILURES (VFNG-E) SYSTEM IS USED AS THE SOLE HUMAN/MACHINE INTERFACE IN FLIGHT IN REAL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, IN ADDITION TO THE SYSTEM HAVING APPLICATIONS FOR SIMULATOR AND GROUND TRAINING. THIS TRAINING SYSTEM IS REMARKABLE IN THAT IT ACHIEVES VERY HIGH RECOGNITION RATES (98%) WITH A VERY LARGE COMMAND SET (131,000 UNIQUE WORDS AND THOUSANDS OF WORD COMBINATIONS) IN CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND OPERATOR PROFILES PROVIDING MUCH ADDED SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY TO THE PILOT IN THE COCKPIT. | SOUTHERN AIR AVIATION INC | $125,000 | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION | — | 541712 | AR11SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH | May 22, 2013 | May 23, 2013 | Nov 23, 2013 |