SBIR/STTR Research Award
VIDAS-SLAM: Undetectable, GPS-denied Mapping and Positioning
Award amount
$13,324,966Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- COMPOUND EYE INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-09-05
- Contract end date
- 2027-01-25
- UEI
- M3LXEJTJUJV5
- Solicitation number
- 20.6
- Topic code
- A206-002
Research abstract
In future combat operations, GPS will be routinely denied and active sensors like LiDaR and radar will be easily detected. The Army needs a robust solution for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) that does not depend on such sensors. Compound Eye proposes VIDAS-SLAM to enable manned and unmanned ground vehicles to keep track of their position day and night using only undetectable sensors. VIDAS-SLAM is aligned with 3 Army priority areas: Contested Autonomy, AI/ML, & Sensors.
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.
- Passive 3D Sensor for Autonomous Aerial Navigation
- Family of Special Operations Vehicles (FOSOV)
- Compound Eye VIDAS: Long Range Sensing and Perception for Autonomous Off-Road Vehicles
- Dense Monocular 3D Sensing for Autonomous Aerial Systems
- 3D vision for autonomous navigation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- VOXL2 High-performance Sensing for Autonomous Navigating AGVs
- Monocular 3D Thermal Ranger
- Camera Arrays for Autonomous Nav
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2021–2024). Reported award amounts total $19,178,287. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense