Autonomous Self-Configuring/Self-Regulating Smart Sensing Windscreen

To address the U.S. Army need for a miniature windscreen, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new dynamic miniature windscreen, autonomous self-configuring/self-regulating smart-sensing (AS4) system based on a set of dynamic meshes and a self-sensing strip. The AS4 windscreen is integrated with a simple, no-maintenance sensor that directly neutralizes aggravating effects of wind noise in real time. The AS4's efficient self-configurable mechanism, without mechanical moving parts, dynamically regulates air turbulence and buffeting according to sensed wind parameters. Despite its extreme compactness, the AS4's active windshielding is responsive to time-variant wind noise, transients, and blowing sounds. In Phase I we will complete the design of a preliminary laboratory prototype, develop self-sensing and self-regulation, and demonstrate the functional AS4 system in a simulation testbed, in which we will simulate transient wind noise. In Phase II POC plans to develop a packaged AS4 system satisfying design configurations and critical implementation parameters, and to demonstrate the final prototype to verify key performance parameters.