SBIR/STTR Research Award
Integration of PALACE and Touchdown Planning Methods for Landing CUAS at Unprepared Sites
Award amount
$99,884Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2010-06-28
- Contract end date
- 2011-07-08
- UEI
- K1L1BZLNPWC4
- Solicitation number
- 2010.A
- Topic code
- N10A-T039
Research abstract
Aurora Flight Sciences and MIT have been developing tools and techniques that, together with existing 3D environment decision-making and navigation tools developed by AMRDEC in the PALACE program, are well-suited to the problem of autonomous vertical landing on unprepared landing sites. In this program, Aurora will team with MIT researchers and UC Santa Cruz (UCSC licenses PALACE technologies for AMRDEC) to combine hybrid-system rapidly-expanding random trees (RRTs), PALACE technologies, careful system engineering/integration, and Phase II experimental demonstrations. The result will be a general purpose, environmentally robust, autonomous vertical landing system for remote, unprepared/sloped landing sites with obstacles, environmental disturbances, and minimal ground crew support/training. System engineering will focus on creating a system which minimizes size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) requirements for sensing and computation.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- RApid Verification and Validation Techniques (RAVVT)
- Aerial Aquatic Ordnance Removal Vehicle (AEQUOR-V)
- Spacecraft Swarm Coordination and Planning Tool
- Vertical Lift by Series Hybrid Power
- Tool for Collaborative Autonomy
Awards with the same topic code
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- Autonomous Rotorcraft Operations from Unprepared Sites
- Integration of PALACE and Touchdown Planning Methods for Landing CUAS at Unprepared Sites
- Autonomous Landing at Unprepared Sites for a Cargo Unmanned Air System
- Autonomous Landing at Unprepared Sites for a Cargo Unmanned Air System
- Autonomous Landing at Unprepared Sites for a Cargo Unmanned Air System
Research funding history
172 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2017). Reported award amounts total $52,953,955. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce
Contractor profile
AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION
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