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Logistics Analysis, Modular Glider, Shipboard Recovery, Distributed Logistics, UAV Flight Control, ISO Packaging, Cycle Time Reduction, Autonomous Launch Glider

Piasecki Aircraft Corp (PiAC) and teammate SkEyes propose to develop the KlearPath-Mini, an Optical Guidance System incorporating a novel, miniature LADAR and EO imaging suite in a package suitable for small UAS (SUAS). The KlearPath-Mini will provide robust navigation and obstacle avoidance to a SUAS, allowing safe flight from launch to recovery without outside intervention. The system uses an ...

Our Flexible Optical Guidance and Navigation System (FOGNS) is capable of reliable navigation in widely varying visual conditions using a suite of small size, low weight, power and low-cost sensors. Visual odometry, Optical Flow and low-cost Inertial sensing data are fused into a single navigation solution with an accurate measure of uncertainty. Sophisticated, yet computationally feasible algorit ...

Among the factors that inhibit the use of composite materials in both general aviation aircraft and DoD platforms are the high cost of engineering and the cost of certification. Unless manufacturers can control risk when introducing new materials and pro

There is a need to achieve 10^-9 reliability for actuators for critical aerospace applications and this precludes single point failure for all but the simplest and most reliable electrical and mechanical components. LC Drives proposes a method of constructing a high reliability linear actuator for critical aerospace applications that is designed such that jams caused by conventional electrical a ...

Looking Glass is an immersive, story-driven game experience that enables computer science education for students K-12. It presents learning in a game-based series of challenge levels that permit a high degree of player choice in tailoring educational progression and adapting game systems that present both STEM and SEL interactions. Gameplay occurs within a futuristic Wonderland, where proficiency ...

The ongoing explosion of microwave radar and communications systems calls for improvement in electronically scanned antennas (ESAs). However, current ESAs crafted from multiple individual elements are extremely expensive. Forming an antenna with integrated scanning and impedance matching elements on a single substrate using thin film technologies may decrease costs by up to two orders of magnitu ...

This SBIR Phase I program will address the fabrication and testing of voltage variable dielectrics (VVD) in which the refractive index (n) can be E-field tuned providing electronic scanning in the microwave regions. In collaboration with Hughes' Radar Division, the manufacturing of large area composites based on the perovskite Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) will be integrated into a continuous t ...

This SBIR Phase I program will address the fabrication and testing of pseudo single crystal relaxor ferroelectrics (PMN:PT) for high performance electromechanical actuators. In collaboration with Innovation Powder Technology, Inc. the crystallographic orientation of solid state grown PMN:PT will be controlled using hydrothermally synthesized perovskite PbTiO3. The use of large 5-10 micron platel ...

K2T proposes the development of a novel concept for using arrays of low-cost, internetted, unattended sensors to detect, localize, and classify targets in ground and littoral environments with the goal of increasing battlefield awareness. The concept will initially combine imaging, acoustic, and location sensors with local signal processing and communications capabilities; but can be expanded to ...