SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Multi-physics Aircraft Simulation Tool (MAST)
Award amount
$99,974Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- BIHRLE APPLIED RESEARCH INC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-01-17
- Contract end date
- 2008-11-29
- UEI
- M5AKXCM37D31
- Solicitation number
- 2007.3
- Topic code
- AF073-090
Research abstract
A comprehensive Multi-physics Simulation Tool (MAST) is proposed to address the void in simulation tools that address the specific needs of the MAV engineer. The MAST provides an enhancement to Bihrle’s commercially successful PC-Based simulation environment D-Six by providing a project structure suited to model flapping-wing and rotary-wing flight vehicles. A project wizard will guide the user in the configuration of the project to account for the specific MAV characteristics to be modeled. The Bihrle Phase I effort lays the foundation for a reconfigurable simulation tool to allow engineers and control designer solve critical issues regarding the control flight of MAVs. At the end of Phase I an element-based set of equations of motion will have been implemented as a new project structure in D-Six and demonstrated. Critical issues regarding the modeling of aerodynamics, aeroelastic-effects, and control-law will be identified for further design during a Phase II effort.
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.
- Global Resource for Energy-Aware Efficient Navigation (GREEN)
- Detect and Avoid Tracker Augmentation (DAATA)
- Architecture for Experimental Research and Operational Data Acquisition Control (AERODAC)
- Automated Toolset for Object Identification and Mapping (ATOM)
- Architecture for Experimental Research and Operational Data Acquisition Control (AERODAC)
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
41 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2024). Reported award amounts total $10,240,061. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration