SBIR/STTR Research Award
Small Scale Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Platform
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- THORPE SEEOP CORP
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- ELPKPNBP7D63
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Trade study and conceptual design is proposed optimizing UAV/UGV Transforming Vehicles that land transforming into UGVs capable of inspecting caves and/or buildings to find people. A survey will be done and candidate vehicles including Spinwing as eithera transforming UAV/UGV, or as a UAV transport for several UGVs. Also included will be fixed-wing UAVs that can transform into or transport UGVs. Employing a Small Scale UAV/UGV (SSUAV/UGV) would allow the warfighter to search and locate large numbers ofcaves and buildings from a forward position without risk to individual personnel. Employing numerous SSUAV/UGVs to explore caves and or buildings would allow the warfighter to explore places of concealment, without exposing themselves to a high-riskenvironment.This combination would have significant benefit to commercial aviation users and law enforcement, search and rescue, and resource managers would benefit from this technology
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.
- Advanced, Agile Manufacturing of Limited Production Swarming Unmanned Systems (UxS) to Support Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
- Group 2 (<55lbs) Unmanned Aerial System for Special Operations Forces Tactical-Level Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations
- Modeling of Small-scale Tilt-rotor Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Small Scale Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Platform
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Magnetic Sensing
Research funding history
14 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2020). Reported award amounts total $4,281,434. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture