TRITON SYSTEMS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-032
TRITON SYSTEMS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $124,883
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N181-032
- Solicitation
- 2018.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2018-06-13 → 2018-12-10
Description
Actuators, especially fin actuators, have long been a source of reliability problems in ocean-going vehicles. Compared with air vehicles, where much of the servo market focuses their products, control surfaces in the water see much higher loadings due the harsh environment of the oceans surface. Triton Systems proposes a single-piece actuator based on Electro Active Polymer technology for unmanned underwater vehicle and unmanned surface vehicle applications. During Phase I, the team will develop a concept for an EAP-based actuator and determine the technical feasibility of this concept through analysis and demonstration.