SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of a Concept for Swarmed mini-UAVs for Automatic Target Recognition
Award amount
$997,481Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Augusta Systems, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-08-17
- Contract end date
- 2007-08-16
- UEI
- KMM1F9LTKDM3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N04-T005
Research abstract
The objective of this project is to develop algorithms controlling the high level flight pattern of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing swarming technology in a manner to maximize Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) performance for a selected algorithm through cooperative search operations involving a larger number of inexpensive UAVs. Based upon the success and results of the Phase I work, this will be accomplished through the selection of a suitable ATR algorithm and sensor, modeling of the ATR algorithm and sensor performance, development of reactive agents to support appropriate, cooperative, swarming behaviors, development and application of optimization techniques for the reactive agent parameters, and ground truth verification of overall system performance.
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.
- Economic Feasibility Study of Agricultural Coops as Catalysts in GHG Markets
- Development of a Concept for Swarmed mini-UAVs for Automatic Target Recognition
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- COoperative Multiagent System for automated TArget Recognition by UAVs (COMSTAR)
- Distributed , Decentralized Optimization for Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Swarm-like Systems
- COoperative Multiagent System for automated TArget Recognition by UAVs (COMSTAR)
Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2005). Reported award amounts total $1,176,364. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture