SBIR/STTR Research Award
Technology for Shipbuilding Affordability
Award amount
$599,648Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VEXCEL CORP.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-03-24
- Contract end date
- 2005-09-24
- UEI
- EQXKQC98HG17
- Solicitation number
- 2003.1
- Topic code
- N03-105
Research abstract
Developing shape-from-video based software tools will enable US shipyards to create cost effective three-dimensional (3D) models of shipboard components (for engineering applications and/or virtual reality simulators) while ships are still in service ? significantly shortening overall repair cycle time. This approach makes use of the massively redundant information in a video stream to support the automation and simplification of the 3D modeling task. Conceptually there would be only three steps required: - take a hand held video of the area to be modeled, - identify one or more standard 3D catalog items in the video stream (to provide scale and orientation information), - dump the 3D model into the required CAD environment (ShipConstructorTM, CATIATM, AutoCADTM, FactoryCADTM, and MicroStationTM are all currently supported)
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.
- Information Exploitation
- Real-time Model Based Target Recognition System
- Information Exploitation
- Novel Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Algorithms
- Software Tools for Modeling Urban Details
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Agile, wireless enabled Workflows for Ship Manufacture and repair (AWSM)
- FLASH - Fiber beam delivery for Laser Applications in the SHipbuilding industry
- Development of an Intelligent Shipyard Welding Procedure System
- Affordable CPC Information Management System
- Guided Metal Cutting
Research funding history
75 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1985–2006). Reported award amounts total $18,902,110. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy