SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Flight Controls for Ultra-agile Small Unmanned Air Vehicles
Award amount
$69,976Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Lite Machines Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2010-10-18
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NEG8YD7NK299
- Solicitation number
- 2010.2
- Topic code
- N102-172
Research abstract
The proposed research will explore innovative flight control methodologies combining recent advances in system identification, novel flight sensors, and neural network based adaptive flight control design to develop a new, high bandwidth flight controller architecture capable of rejecting the disturbing effects of wind gusts and turbulence. The proposed controller architecture will be most appropriate for small rotary-wing VTOL UAVs weighing less than about 70 kg (150 lbs.) and having a hover flight mode in which the rotor(s) primarily produce a lifting force and a forward flight mode where the rotor(s) primarily produce a thrust force.
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.
- Wings and Propulsion for MAV Gust Rejection
- Rotary-Wing UAV as On-Demand Sensor Platform for Aircraft Operators
- Rotary Wing UAV for Bomb Damage Information within an Urban Environment
- Rotary-Wing UAV as On-Demand Sensor Platform for Aircraft Operators
- Tube-Launched Rotary Wing UAV for Remote Surveillance Operations
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Long Endurance Hovering Surveillance Platform / Urban Beat Cop
- Demonstration of transition between wing- and thrust-borne flight with the Flexrotor miniature long-range aircraft
- Advanced Flight Controls for Ultra-agile Small Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Advanced Control of Endurance Aircraft Configured for Agile Hover Operations
- Demonstration of transition between wing- and thrust-borne flight with the Flexrotor miniature long-range aircraft
Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2012). Reported award amounts total $5,494,093. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense