SBIR/STTR Research Award
Autonomous Flight Control System for eVTOL / UAM Vehicles with Distributed Electric Propulsion Systems
Award amount
$749,886Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- OPTOXENSE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-09-24
- Contract end date
- 2022-12-27
- UEI
- G5LEM9BGPMX6
- Solicitation number
- X20.D
- Topic code
- AFX20D-TCSO1
Research abstract
The objective of this effort is to create potential commercial flight control products in the emerging eVTOL / UAM vehicles market. The focus will be on the development of eVTOL vehicles autonomy and distributed electric propulsion (DEP)-based control tec
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.
- Subscale EVTOL Testbed for safeTy critical softwarE development and scalability Research (SETTER)
- Verification Tool for Intelligent Autonomous Systems Containing Artificial Intelligence Components
- Autonomous Model Predictive Flight Control (MPFC) System for eVTOL / UAM Vehicles with Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP)
- CAD Tool for Digital Embedded Networked Control Systems in Mission Critical Applications
- HiTECC 2.0: Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) Propulsion System Modeling & Simulation Platform for Future Hypersonic Vehicles
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Extremely Lightweight and Ultra-Low Noise Isolated DC-DC Converters
- Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing for Rapid Prototyping and Demonstration of Small UAS Designs
- Deployable Containerized LH2 Refueling System
- Extremely Lightweight and Ultra-Low Noise Isolated DC-DC Converters
- Advanced Li-Metal, High-Power Battery
Research funding history
18 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2024). Reported award amounts total $7,196,567. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration