SBIR/STTR Research Award
Automated aircraft inlet coating
Award amount
$1,495,164Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Aerobotix, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-07-16
- Contract end date
- 2017-03-20
- UEI
- J29NVDM9D8B9
- Solicitation number
- 2013.1
- Topic code
- AF131-114
Research abstract
ABSTRACT:Aerobotix is proposing to build and demonstrate a robotic coating system that is capable of spraying the entire interior of the F-22 inlet duct on an assembled aircraft.Aerobotix will utilize innovative designs for building a robotic end of arm tool, rail, and fluid delivery system to demonstrate how the coating can be applied to the required design thicknesses.BENEFITS: This automated coating system will replace the current process of manually spraying the F-22 inlet ducts, providing a safer process that saves time and money during the recoating efforts at the depot facilities.BENEFIT:Potential applications include the automated re-coating of an aircraft's inlet duct coating while in a depot state for multiple styles of fighter jets at various military locations.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Robotic Adaptive Sanding System (RASS)
- Automated Incremental Metal Forming
- Intelligent Robotic Painting of Large Aircraft
- Automated aircraft inlet coating
- Damage Identification Algorithms for Composite Structures
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2026). Reported award amounts total $6,771,719. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense