SBIR/STTR Research Award
ALPHATECH, INC.
Award amount
$49,448Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1984Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ALPHATECH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- KM4XFJ7CJSY8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
ALPHATECH, INC. PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED DECENTRALIZED MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE ROBUST REAL-TIME CONTROL OF VERY LARGE FLEXIBLE SPACE STRUCTURES (VLFSS). A CRUCIAL NEED EXISTS FOR THE DEFINITION OF A SUPERIOR ARCHITECTURE OF SUCH CONTROL SYSTEMS AND THE REALTIME COORDINATION OF THE DECENTRALIZED MULTIVARIABLE CONTROLLERS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL USE BOTH STATE-SPACE AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN TOOLS; IT WILL INTEGRATE CONCEPTS FROM REGULAR PERTURBATION THEORY (WEAK DYNAMIC COUPLING), SINGULAR PERTURBATION THEORY (FREQUENCY SEPARATION BETWEEN RIGID-BODY AND FLEXURE MODES), AND SINGULAR-VALUE BASED STABILITY/-ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS. THE THEORY WILL EXPLOIT THE UNIQUE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF A LARGE CLASS OF VLFSS, WITHOUT DEPENDING ON UNRELIABLE MODELS OF HIGH-FREQUENCY LIGHTLY-DAMPED MODES. THE RESULT OF THE PHASE I RESEARCH WILL BE A PRACTICAL DESIGN METHODOLOGY OF IMMEDIATE USE IN SEVERAL SPACE PROGRAMS.
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.
- Optimization of STAP for Bistatic Space-Based Radar Systems
- Non-Gaussian Likelihood Detectors for Broadband Active Sonar
- Automated Synchronized Routing and Scheduling for Agile Aerial Platforms
- Optimized and Rapid Employment of Loitering Weapons in Response to Fires
- Handheld Real-Aperture Radar and EO Fusion for LO Vehicle RCS Verification in Uncontrolled Environments
Research funding history
217 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2009). Reported award amounts total $62,908,538. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services