SBIR/STTR Research Award
Tunable Stiffness Thorax/Mechanism for Flapping Wing MAV
Award amount
$99,996Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- NOVA PHOTONICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2012-06-21
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- RFALGF4H8N23
- Solicitation number
- 2012.1
- Topic code
- A12-017
Research abstract
This proposed study intends to find ways to improve the mechanical efficiency of robotic and remotely piloted flapping winged vehicles through the incorporation of elastic components. This will allow the manufacture of such vehicles with greatly enhanced flight duration and agility. Work will include the design, prototyping, and testing of micro air vehicle wing flapping mechanisms with tunable elastic components for increasing throughput power transmission efficiency.
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.
- A Tunable Yb:YAG/VBG Laser
- Compact UV Laser for Fusion Diagnostics
- Coded Aperture Techniques for High-Throughput Imaging Spectroscopy
- Wide Field Tunable Optical Filter
- SBIR Phase II: Barrier Centrifuge for Aluminum Purification
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Tunable Stiffness Thorax/Mechanism for Flapping Wing MAV
- FLASH - Flapping Locomotion Adjustable Stiffness Hardware
Research funding history
28 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2019). Reported award amounts total $11,665,699. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration