Spatial Registration for Materials State Awareness

To obtain proposals for spatial registration technologies to function across relevant length scales, integrate technologies, NDE probes, and software and demonstrate integrated systems.

The program will develop and demonstrate novel ways to locate and track Non-destructive Inspection (NDI) probe position and orientation relative to aircraft structure coordinates, whether internal or external to the aircraft, for enhanced capability of NDI instruments to record the placement and movement of the sensor during the inspection to ensure the inspection is accomplished as intended in accordance with the procedure defined by the Air Force Technical Orders (T.O. 33B 1-1 & 1-2 and others) that provides the instructions for each inspection. The correlation of probe location with aircraft location and the establishment of measurement precision and accuracy will enhance NDI inspections and assure Technical Order compliance. Spatial Registration of NDI data may also accelerate inspections and help minimize aircraft disassembly in depot or field maintenance environments.

To obtain information about expertise in the industrial base in development of spatial registration technologies to function across relevant length scales, integrate technologies, NDE probes, and software and demonstrate integrated systems.