You are here

Compact, Light Weight, Low Cost, Precision, Non-inertial Underwater Navigation Sensor

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-11-M-0335
Agency Tracking Number: N11A-027-0047
Amount: $150,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N11A-T027
Solicitation Number: 2011.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2011
Award Year: 2011
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-06-27
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
317 West Forsyth St.
Jacksonville, FL -
United States
DUNS: 869164939
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Gary Donoher
 Project Manager
 (904) 475-0094
 gdonoher@adndinc.com
Business Contact
 Karen Picard
Title: Contract Adminstrator
Phone: (904) 475-0094
Email: kpicard@adndinc.com
Research Institution
 Johns Hopkins University APL
 David Kubik
 
11100 Johs Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
United States

 (443) 778-2184
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) provide an ideal platform for conducting reconnaissance missions in riverine and coastal environments. These platforms must be able to navigate accurately without access to GPS. Analysis, Design & Diagnostics (AD & D) has teamed up with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to offer a high-performance Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) capability for UUVs operating in shallow water that uses a novel omni transducer based approach to provide highly accurate navigation inputs and bottom mapping in a light weight, low volume, low power, low cost configuration. This approach uses interferometric signal processing to allow a reduction in required system hardware complexity when compared to a traditional Janus approach. In this effort, AD & D will focus on establishing system requirements, building the transducer, and processing returns to generate detection vectors consisting of range, Doppler, and solid angle to nearby bottom reflectors, while JHU/APL will focus on fusing these vectors to provide a velocity vector and a bottom map. JHU/APL will also be the lead on the sensor-UUV integration effort. In addition to its core navigation capabilities, with appropriate software, this sensor can also provide additional functionality including terrain avoidance, obstacle avoidance, wideband acoustic intercept, and ACOMMS.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

US Flag An Official Website of the United States Government