SBIR/STTR Research Award
Electroactive Polymer Actuators for Unmanned Undersea and Surface Vehicles
Award amount
$124,883Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- TRITON SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2018-06-13
- Contract end date
- 2018-12-10
- UEI
- DA91DUWSMSQ7
- Solicitation number
- 2018.1
- Topic code
- N181-032
Research abstract
Actuators, especially fin actuators, have long been a source of reliability problems in ocean-going vehicles. Compared with air vehicles, where much of the servo market focuses their products, control surfaces in the water see much higher loadings due the harsh environment of the oceans surface. Triton Systems proposes a single-piece actuator based on Electro Active Polymer technology for unmanned underwater vehicle and unmanned surface vehicle applications. During Phase I, the team will develop a concept for an EAP-based actuator and determine the technical feasibility of this concept through analysis and demonstration.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Pre and Post Weld Heating Innovations
- Biological Noise Modeling for Active and Passive Sonar System Performance Predictions
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Electroactive Polymer Actuators for Unmanned Vehicles
- SHOCK PROOF ACTUATORS FOR UNMANNED UNDERSEA AND SURFACE VEHICLES
Research funding history
927 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2026). Reported award amounts total $388,500,403. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation