SBIR-STTR Award

Mobile Virtual Interactive Presence Capability for Combat Casualty Care
Award last edited on: 7/11/2016

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : DHA
Total Award Amount
$1,149,561
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
DHP15-002
Principal Investigator
Chris Baker

Company Information

Neya Systems LLC (AKA: Rhobotika LLC)

145 Lake Drive Suite 104
Wexford, PA 15090
   (724) 799-8078
   info@neyasystems.com
   www.neyasystems.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 17
County: Allegheny

Phase I

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Phase I year
2015
Phase I Amount
$149,772
Neya Systems, LLC proposes RACC: Remote Assistance for Casualty Care. Our approach demonstrates a remote virtualized presence for medical expertise over a limited bandwidth communications link. A Medical Officer annotates an incoming video stream with procedural information for a full spectrum of medical demonstrations from simple text to manipulation via captured hand gestures. The annotations are parameterized and spatially registered to the casualty using extracted salient features alleviating the need to transmit video back to the field medic. Neya has significant expertise in video compression, limited bandwidth communications, mobile application development, and state of the art video and image processing. The output of a successful Phase I program will be a demonstration of an Android-based device showing remote annotation aids from a Medical Officer over a bandwidth-limited communication network (simulating the target hardware) positioning us for a Phase II effort implementing additional annotations and demonstrating on real hardware.

Phase II

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Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase II year
2016
Phase II Amount
$999,789
During combat a soldier may incur treatable injuries beyond the expertise of the combat medic. Addressing this by deploying more knowledgeable Medical Officers per-squad could be life-saving and significantly improve battlefield injury recovery. However, limited resources often prevent deployment of such expertise per-squad. During our Phase I RACC development, Neya Systems has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of a novel solution to this very problem: deployment of a Medical Officers expertise without deploying the Medical Officer.In Phase II, we are providing robust feature tracking in the presence of local scene motion, including off-camera motion and full scene changes; extending Phase I EUD feature tracking implementation to include cloud-based processing and service architecture to enable offloading of complex processing; developing a browser-based interface tool suite for static and dynamic annotation design, and placement, synchronized across the RACC network; and extending the UCS System Architecture to include RACC data structures and fully integrate with Neyas existing cloud-based infrastructure.