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Back to Company SearchTridentis Advanced Marine Vehicles LLC
UEI: HKGLZVNXRN29
Number of Employees: 1
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
SBIR/STTR Involvement
Year of first award: 2018
3
Phase I Awards
2
Phase II Awards
66.67%
Conversion Rate
$444,536
Phase I Dollars
$799,958
Phase II Dollars
$1,244,494
Total Awarded
Awards
Autonomous Coastal Monitor Ghost Pot Solution
Amount: $174,738 Topic: 9.2
Tridentis Advanced Marine Vehicles (AMV) will employ its Autonomous Coastal Monitor (ACM) technology and advanced data processing techniques currently being pioneered at the University of Delaware (UD) to address the ecological problem of derelict crab pots, or “ghost pots”. A 2016 study (Bilkovic, Slacum, Zaveta, & Jeffrey, 2016) sponsored by NOAA estimated 12-20% of the blue crab traps deployed annually in the Chesapeake Bay are lost, killing more than 3.3 million crabs, or 4.5% of the 2014 harvest. The study also quantified the positive effect of removal efforts, suggesting that, on average, harvests increased 868 lbs. for each removed pot. The key opportunity this research will pursue is to dramatically reduce the time and cost of ghost pot identification and location, so that a greater proportion of limited conservation resources may be dedicated to removal. The research will pursue the use of autonomous surveys of ghost pot hot spots to generate a dataset suitable for processing using UD techniques, with the goal of producing a data product to guide removal team efforts. Phase I will determine the feasibility of using the ACM to generate a dataset suitable for processing, with subsequent research oriented towards creating a viable data product.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2024
DOC
NOAA
Enhanced Aquaculture Monitoring
Amount: $149,865 Topic: 9.1
The purpose of this proposal is to analyze the monitoring requirements for near shore aquaculture installations and determine the best technical solution to continuously monitor these growing sites. By providing continuous monitoring of the water quality, shellfish/finfish quality can be inferred and then transmitted to the consumer as an enhanced food security certification. Tridentis Advanced Marine Vehicles (AMV) in conjunction with the Washington College Watershed Innovation Laboratory (WIL) intend to establish a baseline testing regimen for a near‐shore shellfish aquaculture farms and develop a material solution to monitor the environmental conditions efficiently, in real time, accurately, and in a cost‐effective manner within aquaculture installations. AMV intends to develop technology for use on our Advanced Coastal Monitor (ACM) to provide a cost‐effective solution to improve monitoring capabilities. The Watershed Innovation Lab will supply Basic Observation Buoy (BOB) monitoring buoys that measure and transmit data real‐time to be used in concert during this study. The ACM is a cost‐ effective solution and greatly reduces the labor hours required to survey the aquaculture growing areas. The BOB is a fixed floating buoy that continuously monitors water quality and transmits the data in real‐ time to a shore monitoring station. Food security is a growing concern from a regulatory and consumer perspective. Agriculture is easily monitored spatially and frequently. Aquaculture is more difficult to confidently observe. We trust that the water that covers the marine ecosystem is safe, clean and uncontaminated. The development of the autonomous vehicle and sentinel buoy monitor systems will provide ubiquitous security that our food is safe to consume from its point of origin to the shelf where we pick it from. The commercial application is global to ever expanding aquaculture and mariculture farms that will become increasingly critical as food needs expand with global populations.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2021
DOC
NOAA
Bottom Feeder - A Highly Maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Amount: $399,984 Topic: 8.2.2
The Bottom Feeder project is designed to prove out the research done in Phase I using a prototype platform. The prototype will be a full size version of the platform designed during Phase I. The Phase I platform was designed to work in two operational configurations, a highly efficient mode and a highly maneuverable mode, with the ability to switch between them while submerged. The platform is equipped with a modular science bay that is capable of employing a number of different types of scientific sensors while providing a simplified method of switching sensor types. The platform was designed to provide both tethered and autonomous submerged operations. This allows for both autonomous survey operations similar to other Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and tethered operations similar to Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) when precise handling is required to get in close to delicate coral formations or other underwater objects of interest. The platform will additionally be capable of tethered UUV operations allowing for real time, high bandwidth data streaming.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2019
DOC
NOAA
Design of an Autonomous, Green Powered, Mobile Coastal Monitor
Amount: $399,975 Topic: 8.2.1
TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: The mobile coastal monitor project is designed to prove out the research done in Phase I using a Proof of Concept demonstration craft. The Proof of Concept demonstrator will be a geometrically scaled version of the craft designed during Phase I. The Phase I craft, the Advanced Coastal Monitor (ACM) was designed to use state-of-the-art green power supplies and apply them as the propulsion and sensor power source for a highly efficient surface platform. The platform was equipped with a modular sensor bay that is capable of housing a wide variety of atmospheric, air/sea interface, and sub-surface sensors suitable for a wide range of sensing operations from benthic and flora/fauna surveying, to pollutant mapping, to calibration and validation of space borne optical sensors. The platform incorporated the latest unmanned vessel controls that conform to current Collision Regulations (COLREGS) and obstacle (surface and sub-surface) avoidance technology. The ACM was a clean sheet design as current autonomous surface vehicles either do not run on green power, or smaller battery, sail, or wave powered vehicles do not have the appropriate COLREGS / collision avoidance capability.SUMMARY OF ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Our anticipated results will include the successful testing of the Proof of Concept demonstration craft including the design of the modular sensor bay. The platform will be autonomous and powered by a green power supply(ies). This design will be suitable to take into contract and detail design cycles to commercialize in Phase III
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2018
DOC
NOAA
Bottom Feeder - A Highly Maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Amount: $119,933 Topic: 8.2.2
TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: Bottom Feeder will be a highly maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), with a tethered operations option and modular sensor bay, to support benthic optical surveys, coral reef mapping and health assessment, and be expandable for future survey operations. It will integrate a low drag hullform, a minimum of four degrees of independent motion control, a highly efficient propulsion system, autonomous obstacle avoidance, a modular sensor bay that can accommodate multiple sensors at a time, and capable of supporting multiple survey methods. Bottom Feeder will operate in two configuration modes and be able to dynamically change between modes while submerged. The first configuration is AUV Mode using in-line propulsors where pitch and yaw of the platform is used to control direction and depth like torpedo shaped AUVs. The second configuration is ROV Mode using six vectored thrusters to control orientation, propulsion, and depth of the platform and provide at least four degrees of freedom. AUV Mode focuses on straight line efficiency with good transect or path following, while ROV Mode is geared towards high maneuverability; especially at low or no forward speed. Both modes will have the capability of running autonomously or tethered to the surface, and changing while submerged.SUMMARY OF ANTICIPATED RESULTS: At the end of Phase I we anticipate having a complete preliminary design of the prototype vehicle to move into Phase II with. Additionally, we will have physically proven many of the performance aspects of the vehicle by building and testing a proof of concept demonstrator. This demonstrator will have reduced the risk on the most challenging aspects of the design while being able to collect scientific data from multiple sensors.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2018
DOC
NOAA