SBIR/STTR Research Award
Integrated Vehicle-Propulsion-Control Design for DEP-Enabled Aircraft (IDEA)
Award amount
$118,449Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-08-12
- Contract end date
- 2021-09-30
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- STTR_20_P1
- Topic code
- T15
Research abstract
NASA is spearheading the efforts on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and providing impetus to the industry to follow with concepts for the same. Several manufacturers, as well as, NASA, have come up with concepts for UAM aircraft; mostly using Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP). However, the multidisciplinary interactions involved and the ability to utilize the distributed propulsors for improved control are not fully understood. To achieve this and use such capabilities in design, we are developing IDEA, a design optimization architecture that includes multidisciplinary multi-fidelity analyses for integrated airframe-DEP design. This technology, if successful, can push the state of the art in UAM aircraft concept design and DEP enabled aircraft in general.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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- Geared Motor Exploration for the Research Aircraft for eVTOL Enabling techNologies (RAVEN)
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Research funding history
1,182 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2021). Reported award amounts total $369,972,257. 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, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security