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In order to achieve a six-day spacecraft architecture, the assembly, integration & testing (AI&T) of the Satellite Bus could be drastically reduced by stocking component-ready modular panels for assembly. The assembly of the structure itself, however, needs to be accelerated from the typical process of securing panels with dozens of mixedsize fasteners and the associated verification, tooling, and documentation that must also take into consideration the need to pass electrical and thermal connections across panels of the bus. A method for rapidly providing a stiff mechanical attachment across panels of a spacecraft bus, while simultaneously providing electrical and thermal continuity, helps to further realize the goals of Responsive Space (RS). A fastening strategy has been developed for enabling rapid assembly of a spacecraft bus structure using Honeybee's patented Quick Insertion Nut (QIN) technology. The QINs are embedded in manifolds which reside at each edge inside the spacecraft bus (the manifold includes panel-to-panel electrical interconnects) and together form a skeletal structure for the spacecraft panels. Initial FEA analyses show that a bus construction based on this concept is capable of meeting the natural frequency requirements for a wide array of launch vehicles and that the QINs themselves are capable of withstanding very high tensile loads with positive margins of safety.

Honeybee Robotics has benefited from multiple commercialization successes associated with the federal SBIR program 1 2 . In this paper, we will present a number of case studies on successful technology development and infusion, including development of 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT), 2007 NASA Mars Phoenix Lander Icy Soil Acquisition Deice (ISAD), 2011 Mars Science Laboratory Rover Sample manipulation System (SMS) and excavation systems for NASA Lunar Surface Systems and DoD.The paper addresses the commercial benefits of each of the technologies, and also describes how we identified opportunities in other federal organizations and commercial partners and what steps were required to successfully spin it off into other markets. We also describe a step-by-step approach to technology developed at Honeybee Robotics and describe the path required for infusing technology into space missions or different applications.

A research division plays an important role of driving innovation in an organization. Drawing insights, following trends, keeping abreast of new research, and formulating strategies are increasingly becoming more challenging for both researchers and executives as the amount of information grows in both velocity and volume. In this paper we present a use case of how a corporate research community, IBM Research, utilizes Semantic Web technologies to induce a unified Knowledge Graph from both structured and textual data obtained by integrating various applications used by the community related to research projects, academic papers, datasets, achievements and recognition. In order to make the Knowledge Graph more accessible to application developers, we identified a set of common patterns for exploiting the induced knowledge and exposed them as APIs. Those patterns were born out of user research which identified the most valuable use cases or user pain points to be alleviated. We outline two distinct scenarios: recommendation and analytics for business use. We will discuss these scenarios in detail and provide an empirical evaluation on entity recommendation specifically. The methodology used and the lessons learned from this work can be applied to other organizations facing similar challenges.