Based in downtown Los Altos, California, Optimal Synthesis Inc. has been in business since 1992. Researchers in various disciplines such as aerospace/mechanical/electrical/civil engineering, physics, and computer science are currently affiliated with the company. Most of our research staff hold post-graduate degrees from leading institutions in the US, and more than half of them hold doctoral degrees.
We have the combined research experience of over 150 person-years. Our customers include the US Government, major US corporations and research laboratories. We have a reputation for quality, on-time delivery, and low overhead. Our in-house experts are well-recognized in their own research fields. We maintain a network of consultants for rapid solutions of multidisciplinary problems.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Aerospace and defense applications
- Air transportation systems
- Analysis and design of dynamical systems
- Vehicle guidance, control, and estimation
- Communications and signal processing
- Artificial intelligence and robotics
- Bio-medical systems
- Application-specific software development
The following is a sample list of software packages which Optimal Synthesis Inc. has developed and delivered to its customers:
- Generalized National Airspace Traffic Simulation (GNATS™)
- Vision-BAsed Surveillance System (VBASS™)
- Gate Activity Monitoring TOol Suite (GAMTOS™)
- Cockpit Agent for Speech-Understanding in support of Automation (CASA™)
- Speech-Enabled Simulation Interface Agent (SESIA™)
- Ground-Operation Situation Awareness and Flow Efficiency (GoSAFE™): a surface traffic management automation system to generate time-based conflict-free taxi routes for airport traffic
- Ground-Operation Simulation (GoSim™)
- Flight-deck Automation for Reliable Ground Operation (FARGO™): an automation system to assist the pilot in performing time-based taxi operations
- Configurable Airspace Research and Analysis Tool (CARAT™): a software tool that combines the air traffic simulation provided by NASA’s Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) with new functionality for flight safety analysis of space launch vehicles and unmanned air vehicles in the National Airspace System
- CARAT-Scriptable (CARAT#™): an interactive software environment that allows rapid prototyping—with other extensible and large-scale software components such as Python, Jython, MATLAB, SciLab—of en route air traffic management algorithms for analysis with NASA's FACET
- Airspace QUeuing Software (AQUS™)
- Computational Appliance for Rapid Prediction of Aircraft Trajectories (CARPAT™)
Optimal Synthesis Inc. has developed several software products including: Genetic Search Toolbox™, and Nonlinear Synthesis Tools™, both of which are toolboxes for the Mathworks® product MATLAB®.