SBIR/STTR Research Award
Robust Autonomous Maneuvering of Unmanned Air Systems in Challenging Environmental/Weather Conditions for Safety, Mission Effectiveness, and Endurance
Award amount
$69,846Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- KALSCOTT ENGINEERING, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-06-29
- Contract end date
- 2010-04-30
- UEI
- KNGUBRJ8WAD1
- Solicitation number
- 2009.A
- Topic code
- N09-T025
Research abstract
A hardware-software solution for controlling UAVs in challenging flight conditions is described. This would allow the UAV to autonomously exploit advantageous weather phenomena for increased endurance, and also allow the UAV to maneuver in challenging flight conditions. A novel method of generating the control laws is presented, along with a method to implement the new laws into the UAV autopilot. Both theoretical and experimental studies are planned.
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.
- Multipurpose Autonomous Ground Vehicle for Airfield Operations
- Autonomous Ground Vehicles for Airfield Support
- Rapidly Deployable Unified Air Traffic Monitoring System
- Organic Airspace Monitoring System for Aerial Wildfire Response Operations
- Low SWaP-C RemoteID Device for UAS
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- A Reactive Controller for Harvesting Gust Energy (RECHARGE) for Small UAS
- Robust Autonomous Maneuvering of Unmanned Air Systems in Challenging Environmental/Weather Conditions for Safety, Mission Effectiveness, and Endurance
- Robust Autonomous Maneuvering of Unmanned Air Systems in Challenging Environmental/Weather Conditions for Safety, Mission Effectiveness, and Endurance
- Robust Optimization of Mission Effectiveness in Challenging Winds
Research funding history
57 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $18,451,949. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation