SBIR/STTR Research Award
Automated ICBM wall thickness measurements
Award amount
$149,622Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MACHINES CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-19
- Contract end date
- 2019-09-19
- UEI
- Y2Q6CNYCLJP5
- Solicitation number
- 2018.1
- Topic code
- AF181-009
Research abstract
The degree of corrosion for steel wall enclosures, buildings, tanks, and pipes can be inferred by measuring the thickness of the steel .Standard practice is for inspectors to use hand-held ultrasonic instruments that require the application of a couplant for acceptable measurements.This practice is very slow and laborious.For silos, an autonomous wall climbing system is proposed that uses an EMAT based sensor system, that required no couplant,that is designed for speed and accuracy of measurement.The robot will use magnetic adhesion and be able to circumnavigate silo obstacles such as pipes and ladders, report spatial position, and have machine vision capabilities to make course corrections.
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.
- Ground Hazard Observation Survey and Tracking System (GHOSTS)
- Illuminated Virtual Crosswalk and Threat Detection System
- Low Profile Aerodynamic Sensor Tape (LPAST) for Offshore Windmill Monitoring
- Complete Autonomous Ventilation Environment System (CAVES) for Small and Mid-Size Farms
- Illuminated Virtual Crosswalk and Threat Detection System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Automated ICBM wall thickness measurements
- Automated Guided Wave Phased Array Scanner for Inspection of ICBM Silo Walls
Research funding history
68 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2025). Reported award amounts total $23,031,817. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security