Technology Development
Gas Micro-sensor
ESI has developed a novel architecture for miniature gas concentration sensors utilizing solid-state photonic MEMS. The same approach has been shown effective for measuring a range of biochemical hazards. Innovative differential-light path dual photo-detector architecture is used to enable reliable operation over a wide range of temperatures, pressures, gas flows, and humidity.
Active Materials
ESI’s Dielectric Elastomer Transducer (DET) is a novel material suitable for electroactive-polymer actuation and sensing. DET provides high-power to mass ratio. The novelty is in the fabrication process that is based on a combination of three unique performance-enhancing fabrication steps. (Patents granted.)
Smart Materials
Using its Dielectric Elastomer Transducer (DET) and associated Dual Controller-Sensor (DUCOS), ESI is developing a range of vibrotactile actuators (TACTOR) that convey the sense of feel to a person. Small TACTOR actuators can be strategically positioned on the user's body/head and their stimuli intuitively interpreted to help a person navigate. Go to www.esiactivematerials.com for more information.
Civilian and Military Critical Infrastructure Surety
Using ESIDE, a new methodology of hybrid fuzzy-logic approach to knowledge consolidation by using both human expert knowledge and real-life data, simulation results, records of previous investigations, etc. has been developed and it is applied to various scenarios.