UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N151-026
UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $79,983
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N151-026
- Solicitation
- 2015.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2015-09-12 → 2016-03-15
Description
Currently, the lack of a proven Sense and Avoid (SAA) technology is the largest technological obstacle in the way of wide scale Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) deployment in the National Airspace Systems (NAS). Group 2-3 UAS, due to their small size, slow cruise speeds and climb rates; exacerbate the probability of their involvement in a Mid Air Collision (MAC). Therefore, there exists a need for a SAA solution that will enable small UAS to avoid MAC while satisfying their Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) constraints. In past work, UtopiaCompression Corporation (UC) has demonstrated the components of a passive sensor based SAA solution using both simulated and flight test data. The objective of this effort is to prove the concept of an optical SAA system and the feasibility of meeting the SWaP limitations of small UAS.