SBIR/STTR Research Award
Laser-Aided Recovery System
Award amount
$749,990Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ADSYS CONTROLS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-03-04
- Contract end date
- 2015-02-18
- UEI
- PDTBNP9JKPC3
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- AF112-003
Research abstract
The Laser-Aided Recovery System (LARS) offers Precision Ship-Relative Navigation (PS-RN) utilizing the electro-optic spectrum for day/night and all-weather operation. This is particularly valuable in EMCON environments as well as complete independence from GPS and RF communications supporting UAV recovery in RF-denied and GPS-denied environments. LARS unique configuration allows for operational range capability out to 70 km (>1km in visually degraded environments) with an extremely low airborne SWaP of under 1 lb and 5 W. Ship motion compensation supports operations for UAV recovery and navigation in high Sea States (Sea State 5 or more). In Phase II, Adsys Controls will finalize the system design, upgrade the system simulation and develop a prototype. The prototype will be flight tested on both fixed wing and rotorcraft platforms to validate system performance for various vehicle approaches.
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.
- Low-Cost High Bandwidth Fast Steering Mirror (FSM)
- Low-Cost, High-Bandwidth Fast Steering Mirror (FSM)
- 5-Inch Gimbal with Full Motion Video and Hyperspectral Imager for Small UAS
- Cockpit Passive Optical Helmet Tracker (CPOHT)
- Lightweight Airborne Dual-mode IRST (LADI)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
15 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2022). Reported award amounts total $5,302,298. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration