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The development of a bio-inspired magnetoelectrosensory navigation system

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-09-M-0306
Agency Tracking Number: N09A-024-0007
Amount: $69,498.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N09-T024
Solicitation Number: 2009.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-06-29
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-04-30
Small Business Information
1711-1 Darrow Ave
Evanston, IL 60201
United States
DUNS: 141312152
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Malcolm MacIver, Ph.D
 Assistant Professor
 (847) 491-3540
 maciver@northwestern.edu
Business Contact
 Michael Peshkin
Title: President
Phone: (847) 491-4630
Email: peshkin@kineadesign.com
Research Institution
 Northwestern University
 Susan G Ross
 
633 Clark Street Crown Center Room 2-502
Evanston, IL 60208 1110
United States

 (847) 491-3003
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

In addition to their ubiquitous abilities for navigation at small spatial scales, a host of animals migrate long distances through the open ocean or skies. The mechanisms underlying these powerful navigational abilities are slowly being decoded. This progress offers the opportunity to develop low cost navigational systems for use in future autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designs. As future AUVs come to emphasize low size and cost for deployment of larger numbers of AUVs for a given task, such systems are desirable. In this proposal, we focus on low cost, bio-inspired multisensory navigation through the combination of three different sensory modalities: active electrosense, geomagnetic sensing, and inductive magnetosense. We propose to use geomagnetic sensing for sensing the local direction of the magnetic field, inductive magnetosense for velocity sensing, and active electrosense for high resolution localization and object collision avoidance.

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