SBIR/STTR Research Award
Self-Deployable Electric Multi-Rotor Air Mobility System
Award amount
$223,312Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- DOMINIC SHIOSAKI
- Proposal award date
- 2021-06-08
- Contract end date
- 2022-05-13
- UEI
- NAZZRQNUMKW3
- Solicitation number
- HR001121S0007.I
- Topic code
- HR001121S0007-05
Research abstract
The proposed solution for a self-deployable electric multi-rotor portable personal air mobility system is a novel configuration that takes advantage of large diameter rotors for primary lift while additionally using additional smaller propellers for directed thrust to control attitude. Similar vehicles like a helicopter are inherently complex with small mechanisms and single points of failure and a multi-copter (tri/quad/hex/etc) configuration has a low power/lift ratio and would not be able to transport a human in a portable vehicle. The proposed solution benefits from both styles to be high lift while being mechanically simple and scalable. The self-deployed system is primarily controlled by electronic flight controllers to eliminate the need for extensive flight training and enables a single man setup. It is also configured for full system redundancy for additional safety for human flight and is all electric for rapid battery swapping or field charging.
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