SBIR/STTR Research Award
Mitigation of USV Motions via Wave Sensing and Prediction
Award amount
$69,931Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-06-30
- Contract end date
- 2011-04-30
- UEI
- W56JLYYAWGV7
- Solicitation number
- 2010.A
- Topic code
- N10A-T036
Research abstract
Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc. (ASC) has teamed with the Department of Ocean Engineering at The University of Rhode Island to devise a sensor suite and computer algorithm to predict ocean waves to aid autonomous boat navigation in heavy weather. The centerpiece of the sensor suite is a Lidar designed by ASC that is adapted to image the ocean at glancing angles. It’s ability to acquire a 3D snapshot of an entire scene rather than scan the scene pixel by pixel will provide more accurate data on a wave tossed boat than conventional scanning Lidars. A simple algorithm to predict the waves is suggested for moderately heavy weather which is based on a coxswain’s handling of the situation. In heavily confused seas a simulation of the ocean has been devised.
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.
- On-orbit Reconfigurable LiDAR for Mapping and Hazard Detection
- HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ELEVATION MAPS USING FLASH LIDAR TECHNOLOGY TO ENSURE SAFE LANDINGS IN FULLY OR PARTIALLY COOPERATIVE LANDING SITES
- Flash LiDAR Enhanced Non-Cooperative Target Landing System
- Intelligent Software Defined 3D Perception Sensor for Multi-Object Submarine Tender Operations (MOSTO)
- Range Gating
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Wave Detection, Prediction, and Reaction System (WDPRS)
- Mitigation of USV Motions via Wave Sensing and Prediction
- Wave Detection, Prediction, and Reaction System (WDPRS)
- Mitigation of USV Motions via Wave Sensing and Prediction
Research funding history
109 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2025). Reported award amounts total $38,950,388. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation