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Early User Appraisal of the MDARS Interior<br />

Robot – 189<br />

Enhancing Functionality <strong>and</strong> Autonomy<br />

in Man- Portable Robots – 213<br />

If Our Robots Are So Smart, Why Aren’t<br />

We All Rich? (The Challenges of Integrating<br />

Autonomous Robots) – 212<br />

Minimum-Resource Distributed Navigation<br />

<strong>and</strong> Mapping – 209<br />

Network Protocols for Mobile Robot Systems<br />

– 199<br />

Proceedings of the Autonomous Vehicles<br />

in Mine Countermeasures Symposium,<br />

Monterey CA, 4-7 April 1995 Many- Robot<br />

MCM Search Systems – 213<br />

Protocols for Robot Communications:<br />

Transport <strong>and</strong> Content Layers – 209<br />

Radar-Based Intruder Detection for a Robotic<br />

Security System – 107<br />

R<strong>and</strong>omized Search Strategies With Imperfect<br />

Sensors – 211<br />

Real-World Issues in Warehouse Navigation<br />

– 210<br />

Reconfigurable <strong>and</strong> Adaptable Micro-<br />

Robots – 212<br />

Security Considerations for Autonomous<br />

Robots – 198<br />

ROBUSTNESS (MATHEMATICS)<br />

Comparison of Artificial Compressibility<br />

Methods – 87<br />

Dynamical Chaos in the Wisdom-Holman<br />

Integrator: Origins <strong>and</strong> Solutions – 218<br />

Stochastic Control Synthesis of Systems<br />

with Structured Uncertainty – 223<br />

ROCKET ENGINE DESIGN<br />

Implementation of Wireless <strong>and</strong> Intelligent<br />

Sensor Technologies in the Propulsion<br />

Test Environment – 32<br />

ROCKET ENGINES<br />

Dynamic Analysis of a Building Under<br />

Rocket Engine Plume Acoustic<br />

Load – 124<br />

Large Area, Real Time Inspection of<br />

Rocket Motors Using a Novel H<strong>and</strong>held<br />

Ultrasound Camera – 125<br />

Software for Preprocessing Data from<br />

Rocket-Engine Tests – 156<br />

ROCKET EXHAUST<br />

Measurements of Infrared <strong>and</strong> Acoustic<br />

Source Distributions in Jet Plumes – 90<br />

ROOFS<br />

A Roof for the Lions’ House – 287<br />

ROTATION<br />

Laboratory Experiments on Rotation <strong>and</strong><br />

Alignment of the Analogs of Interstellar<br />

Dust Grains by Radiation – 311<br />

ROTONS<br />

Disk Crack Detection for Seeded Fault<br />

Engine Test – 119<br />

A-58<br />

ROTOR DYNAMICS<br />

Predictions for the Effects of Free Stream<br />

Turbulence on Turbine Blade Heat<br />

Transfer – 93<br />

ROVING VEHICLES<br />

Efficient Evaluation Functions for Multi-<br />

Rover Systems – 208<br />

SAFETY<br />

Impact of the Grounding of the Shuttle<br />

Fleet – 277<br />

SAMPLING<br />

Adaptive Oceanographic Sampling in a<br />

Coastal Environmental Using Autonomous<br />

Gliding Vehicles – 7<br />

SANDS<br />

Experimental Study of Sound Waves in<br />

S<strong>and</strong>y Sediment – 247<br />

Roving S<strong>and</strong>s 2003 Event Test<br />

Plan – 201<br />

SANDWICH STRUCTURES<br />

Bonded Repair of Aircraft Composite<br />

S<strong>and</strong>wich Structures – 8<br />

Damage Resistance <strong>and</strong> Tolerance of<br />

Composite S<strong>and</strong>wich Panels: Scaling Effects<br />

– 36<br />

Thermo-Elastic Triangular S<strong>and</strong>wich Element<br />

for the Complete Stress Field<br />

Based on a Single-Layer Theory – 123<br />

SAPPHIRE<br />

Fabrication of Monolithic Sapphire Membranes<br />

for High T(sub c) Bolometer Array<br />

Development – 101<br />

SATELLITE ATMOSPHERES<br />

Electrical Charging of Aerosols <strong>and</strong> Conductivity<br />

of Titan’s Atmosphere – 325<br />

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION<br />

Flying Plug: A Small UUV Designed for<br />

Submarine Data Connectivity – 72<br />

Proceedings of the International Symposium<br />

on Advanced Radio Technologies,<br />

March 2-4, 2004 – 71<br />

SATELLITE IMAGERY<br />

Commercial Imagery Satellite Threat:<br />

How Can U.S. Forces Protect Themselves?<br />

– 130<br />

LDCM Preliminary Thermal<br />

Trades – 102<br />

Mississippi Company Using <strong>NASA</strong> Software<br />

Program to Provide Unique Imaging<br />

Service: DATASTAR Success<br />

Story – 286<br />

SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS<br />

The Economical Microbolometer-Based<br />

Environmental Radiometer Satellite (EM-<br />

BERSat) Designed for Forest Fire Detection<br />

<strong>and</strong> Monitoring – 99<br />

Thermal Emission Imaging System<br />

(THEMIS) – 97<br />

SATELLITE OBSERVATION<br />

A LEO Hyperspectral Mission Implementation<br />

for Global Carbon Cycle Observations<br />

– 147<br />

An Adjoint-Based Analysis of the Sampling<br />

Footprints of Tall Tower, Aircraft <strong>and</strong><br />

Potential Future Lidar Observations of<br />

CO2 – 141<br />

Feasibility of Sensing Tropospheric<br />

Ozone with MODIS 9.6 Micron Observations<br />

– 328<br />

Implementation of Coupled Skin Temperature<br />

Analysis <strong>and</strong> Bias Correction in<br />

a Global Atmospheric Data Assimilation<br />

System – 128<br />

SATELLITE-BORNE INSTRUMENTS<br />

Star Formation with Herschel – 305<br />

SATURATION<br />

Saturation of a High-Gain Single-Pass<br />

FEL – 255<br />

SCALE MODELS<br />

Investigation of Acoustical Shielding by a<br />

Wedge-Shaped Airframe – 246<br />

SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS<br />

Atmospheric <strong>and</strong> Surface Reflectance<br />

Measurements by the Geoscience Laser<br />

Altimeter System – 110<br />

SCATTERING<br />

Laboratory <strong>and</strong> In-Flight In-Situ X-ray Imaging<br />

<strong>and</strong> Scattering Facility for Materials,<br />

Biotechnology <strong>and</strong> Life Sciences<br />

– 161<br />

Quantum Scattering Study of Ro-<br />

Vibrational Excitations in N+N(sub 2)<br />

Collisions under Re-entry Conditions<br />

– 215<br />

Systematic Uncertainties on (delta)M2<br />

from Neutrino Physics, using Calorimetric<br />

Energy Reconstruction – 236<br />

SCHEDULES<br />

Impact of the Grounding of the Shuttle<br />

Fleet – 277<br />

SCHEDULING<br />

A Comparison of Techniques for Scheduling<br />

Earth-Observing Satellites – 227<br />

SCIENCE<br />

Evaluating the Effectiveness of the 2002-<br />

2003 <strong>NASA</strong> SCIence Files(TM) Program<br />

– 279<br />

Science <strong>and</strong> Technology Review: Semiconductors<br />

at the Nanoscale – 238<br />

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS<br />

Method for Concurrent <strong>and</strong> Continuous<br />

Measurement of Rn-222 <strong>and</strong> Rn-220 Using<br />

Scintillation Cells – 250<br />

SCORING<br />

An Improvement to Situational Force<br />

Scoring for Adjudicating Attrition in Combined<br />

Arms Conflicts – 228<br />

SCREW DISLOCATIONS<br />

Multiscale Modeling of Dislocation Processes<br />

in Bcc Tantalum: Bridging Atomistic<br />

<strong>and</strong> Mesoscale Simulations – 249<br />

SEA ICE<br />

The Heat <strong>and</strong> Salt Balances of the Upper<br />

Ocean Beneath a Spatially Variable Melting<br />

Sea Ice Cover – 94

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