SBIR/STTR Research Award
Autonomous Operation of Hovering/Staring Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Award amount
$98,925Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- HOOD TECHNOLOGY CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2005-11-23
- Contract end date
- 2006-06-28
- UEI
- ZSTVJVAJ34K3
- Solicitation number
- 2005.2
- Topic code
- SB052-028
Research abstract
Very highly maneuverable remote controlled (RC) aircraft are flown indoors and can be made to hover; these craft can transition from horizontal flight to vertical flight without use of complex gear and do no have any component that serve a single flight phase only. For such RC craft to be made to fly autonomously using an on-board sensors and a computer, one must understand their dynamics. To scope the complexity of the control problem, a validated simulation tool will be produced in this work. It includes wind tunnel testing, especially at large angle of attacks and low speeds and flight tests to compare simulated and actual motion.
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.
- Hood Tech Alticam-14 (AC-14) for AgilePod16v2
- Development of DSTS; a Digital Static Tracking System
- High Temperature, Through the Case, Eddy Current Sensors for Blade Tip Measurements
- Flexrotor: Miniature Robotic Aircraft with Long Range, Long Endurance, and VTOL
- High Speed Continuous Blade Health Monitoring for Turbine Engines
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Autonomous Operation of Hovering/Staring Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Enabling Technology for a Fixed Wing Hovering UAV
Research funding history
29 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2025). Reported award amounts total $10,312,716. 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