SBIR/STTR Research Award
Fully autonomous retrieval, turnaround, and launch for a long-endurance UAV with VTOL capability
Award amount
$499,995Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Aerovel Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2011-09-27
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DDH6LPXG4DR5
- Solicitation number
- 2009.A
- Topic code
- N09-T001
Research abstract
We propose to develop techniques and equipment for fully automated retrieval, refueling/ recharging, and relaunch of Aerovel"s Flexrotor. Our method would be suitable for use on a small platform such as a boat in a choppy sea. It would allow the ground-handling cycle to be performed remotely with no manual intervention, and so enable extended missions through remote unattended sites. Planned work includes demonstration of autonomous turnaround on land, and optionally at sea. These could be followed in Phase III by a demonstration of Flexrotor"s long range and autonomy, with a circuit between the west coast and Hawaii including a fully-automatic refueling stop.
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.
- Demonstration of transition between wing- and thrust-borne flight with the Flexrotor miniature long-range aircraft
- Powerplant development for a miniature tilt-body UAV having long endurance and VTOL capability
- Demonstration of transition between wing- and thrust-borne flight with the Flexrotor miniature long-range aircraft
- Risk modeling for unmanned aircraft in US national airspace
- Rotor development for a miniature tilt-body UAV having long endurance and VTOL capability
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Uncrewed Rapid Semi-Autonomous Local Area Assessment (URSALA2) for Coating Applications
- Fully autonomous retrieval, turnaround, and launch for a long-endurance UAV with VTOL capability
- Automous Launch, Recovery and Turn-Around Systems for Small UAVs
- Automous Launch, Recovery and Turn-Around Systems for Small UAVs
- U-BASE: Fully Autonomous Basing Platform for Unmanned Systems
Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2022). Reported award amounts total $1,918,849. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense