We at ICI - Integrated Consultants, Inc. are pleased to release this interoperability demonstration video. Click on the image to the right to watch the video.

ICI developed the electronic hardware and test infrastructure. Interoperability is made possible using the Distrix software suite from Spark Integration Technologies to allow disparate robotic hardware devices, sensors and other components to communicate seamlessly.

The video displays the result of a collaboration of technical disciplines across the gambit of high technology and demonstrates true autonomous interoperability.

Northrop Grumman's Firescout unmanned helicopter is programmed on the ground via a laptop computer.

ICI designed a chassis system to hold and protect the laptop while it is tethered to the UAV.

The cradle contains an electronics tray that processes the helicopter's signal before feeding it into the laptop.

From a damaged F-18 bulkhead, and utilizing customer 2D paper drawings and mold line data, IGES surfaces, ICI Created 3D parametric solid model.

Then resolve 2D, and 2D to 3D geometric inconsistencies typically found with this type of electronic conversion. Drawings from the parametric solid model verify developed sections to the original 2D paper drawings.

The Reverie mega yacht, the 52nd largest private yacht in the world, underwent an extensive retrofit under Aereon Marine's care.

ICI took care of many different tasks for the retrofit.

A new, improved communications mast was designed and built. Deck cranes were analyzed to determine their weight ratings.

A new bridge with updated navigation instruments was designed and built. The entire yacht was modeled in 3D to aid in future work.

Aereon Marine's hinge supports watertight doors on the mega yacht Reverie.

ICI was given a broken hinge that had not been up to the task and has made significant improvements to the design.

Material choice has been improved and the link design has been changed for increased weight bearing capacity and slower wear.

Pelatron's M2C2 Advanced Prototype is a military command center's worth of electronics and communications equipment shoehorned into a HMMWV.

ICI covered all aspects of the system, including electronics packaging, antenna mounting, and operator positions.

Geodetics ENPU is a high precision GPS receiver.

ICI worked on both the electrical and mechanical designs in parallel in order to achieve the compact form factor.

A special heat sink was designed around the CPU to keep the unit operating in hot climates.

Cubic's GATES lock is an electronically controlled padlock for intermodal shipping containers.

The armored case discourages brute force attacks.

Electronics monitor the lock's current state to detect and log physical attacks.

ICI's innovative hydraulic locking mechanism allows the lock to cinch up tight against the container bars and resist attempts to force the lock open yet uses little electrical power to operate and is cost effective to manufacture.

GA's Inmarsat Communications System provides backup communications for the Predator UAV via the Inmarsat satellite network.

The mechanical case provides protection and quick access to the many electronics components required.

Airflow considerations for both cooling and heating were a special concern.

L3's Impulse Tube is used for testing the effects of a pressure wave on sample materials.

It is used to research more effective armor to protect personnel against the effects of a bomb blast.

The pressure wave is created by first charging the breach end of the tube with high pressure gas. As more gas is added the pressure increases until a plastic diaphragm retaining the gas in the breach ruptures.

The pressure wave travels down the tube and impacts the test article placed at the far end.

ICI's Create Robot is a flexible demonstration vehicle designed to showcase Spark Integration's DIOS communications software.

The robot's strong central skeleton allows quick access to all components for fast setup and configuration.

The robot integrates many existing off the shelf components into one mobile platform.

ICI's HIM and UCP connects any electronic device to the DIOS (Distributed Integration Operating Schema) network.

The DIOS network, developed by Spark Integration, is a small footprint, low overhead, distributed software platform for data communication.

Each HIM contains a configurable I/O board set to adapt to the communications needs of the specific electronics device to be put on the network.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. supported SSC-Pacific advancing a prototype design requiring debug and fabrication detail. ICI developed the necessary drawings and schematics to produce a first article device, then produced 12 units on a quick turn basis.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. developed a modular portable ballistic protection wall that could be assembled in desert sand by two people with no material handling equipment. The identical building block sections comply with the weight limitation that can be lifted by an person, and with unique caring hands, and assembly tools the assembly requires minimal assembly instruction.

ICI analyzed a subfloor heating system repair that failed, and offered forensic data to substantiate a probable chain of events. A repair solution was offered and installed.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. developed a Cryopacking primer for desirable features from a 4.2 Kelvin superconducting circuit to 77 Kelvin. This connection scenario offers the ability to open superconducting circuit connection capability to multiple Cryocooler manufacturers and offers path to precertification superconducting circuit to 77 Kelvin environment.

Pelatron's M2C2 Advanced Prototype is a military command center's worth of electronics and communications equipment shoehorned into a HMMWV.

ICI covered all aspects of the system, including electronics packaging, antenna mounting, and operator positions.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. supports design review and wet stamping of engineered mechanisms as a Registered Professional Engineer in New York, and California.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. supported Epsilon Systems Solution, Inc. in the evolution of a light weight rugged flat panel computer from their flat panel product line. Basic scalable building block components were developed.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. is partnered with expert penetrating ballistic contractor Applied Research Associates in a development effort to refine penetration parameters for definite purposes.

Integrated Consultants, Inc. developed the torpedo size low power consumption vessel that can be suspended at varying depths.