SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reflexive Sense and Control MAV Gust Rejection
Award amount
$149,959Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-05-18
- Contract end date
- 2013-07-31
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 2012.1
- Topic code
- A12-020
Research abstract
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) in collaboration with the West Virginia University (WVU) proposes to develop an innovative bio-inspired system approach for dramatically increasing the efficiency and agility of micro air vehicles (MAVs). The concept is to combine bio-inspired reflexive flight controls, efficient flapping wings and a micro-feather/hair covered membrane boundary layer control wings for a flapping wing MAV that will allow the vehicle to approach the flight efficiency and agility of the Hawkmoth. When successful the commercial potential of this discovery will be far reaching, allowing the development of MAVs that can robustly operate in highly cluttered, dynamic environments in the presents of wind gusts something that is impossible with today"s MAV designs.
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.
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- Scalable, Controllable Inductive Arrays for Weld Heating
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Maritime Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (MTTL) Small Unmanned Air System (sUAS)
- Reflexive Sense and Control MAV Gust Rejection
- Wings and Propulsion for MAV Gust Rejection
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. 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 Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency