SBIR/STTR Research Award
Vorticity State Estimation For Aeroelastic Control
Award amount
$125,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Tao Of Systems Integration Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2012-02-13
- Contract end date
- 2013-02-13
- UEI
- EW9UC5TFJ5L8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- T2.02
Research abstract
Flight control, structural reliability, and efficiency depend critically on the ability to assess the time-accurate unsteady aerodynamic loads and moments for each lifting surface under nominal and adverse flow conditions. Tao Systems and California Institute of Technology propose to develop a flow control system that utilizes advanced sensors and a vorticity state estimator (VSE) to reach flow states unattainable without continuous control feedback. The flow control scheme enables manipulation of the vorticity state to achieve performance objectives, such as short take-off/landing through controlled aerodynamic lift at angles of attack near stall.
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.
- Balloon-Based Disturbance Measurements in the Upper Atmosphere
- Low-Cost, Low-Power Sensor For In-Flight Unsteady Aerodynamic Force and Moment Estimation
- Balloon-Based Disturbance Measurements in the Upper Atmosphere
- Robust Sensor for In-Flight Flow Characterization
- Distributed, Passivity-Based, Aeroservoelastic Control (DPASC) of Structurally Efficient Aircraft in the Presence of Gusts
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Embedded Fiber Optic Shape Sensing for Aeroelastic Wing Components
- A Reusable, Oxidizer-Cooled, Hybrid Aerospike Rocket Motor for Flight Test
- GVT-Based Ground Flutter Test without Wind Tunnel
- Online Real-Time Tribology Failure Detection System
- Active Flow Control with Adaptive Design Techniques for Improved Aircraft Safety
Research funding history
46 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2018). Reported award amounts total $13,652,764. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense