SBIR/STTR Research Award
Fully autonomous retrieval, turnaround, and launch for a long-endurance UAV with VTOL capability
Award amount
$69,881Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Aerovel Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2009-07-16
- Contract end date
- 2010-02-16
- 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 a miniature VTOL UAV. Our proposed method would be suitable for use on a small platform such as a pickup truck, or a small 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. Phase I work would evaluate concepts with prototype hardware, and do aerodynamic testing and flight-control analysis. Phase II would then implement and demonstrate the selected concept.
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
- Fully autonomous retrieval, turnaround, and launch for a long-endurance UAV with VTOL capability
- 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
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
- 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