The objective of this effort is to develop a hardware and software solution to capture, process, and measure key parameters of the chaotic, high-speed, propellant development experiments in challenging real world lighting conditions. It is important because it will lead to advancements in propelling charge design that will enable greater range of artillery weapon systems in development and simultaneously increasing both the lethality and the safety of Soldiers utilizing propellants designed with this technology.

The project will include the following deliverables:

• Develop new event camera hardware/software system that can capture and display propellant testing data at a rate of 0.01ms or faster over a 0.5 second interval in high dynamic range lighting conditions (100dB or more).
• Develop software that can fuse event camera data with high-speed camera data and utilize supervised and unsupervised AI/ML tools to perform complex 3D image analysis to assess and evaluate initial ignition phenomenon and combustion propagation in a translucent acrylic combustion case.
• Develop software with Graphic User Interface that can visualize and generate reports of assessment and evaluation of propellant testing.