ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SB151-006
ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,622
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- SB151-006
- Solicitation
- 2015.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- 2015-06-12 → 2016-04-14
Description
Robotic Research will validate the feasibility of developing MINION (MINIature Optical guidance and Navigation) which will provide small quad rotor vehicles, utilizing low SWaP-C limitations, and carrying a full suite of optical guidance and navigation, including collision avoidance, in a robust and affordable package. From an innovation standpoint MINION will be the first time that a specialized transforming quad rotor with state-of-the art, low SWaP-C technology is deployed, allowing our warfighters to autonomously traverse a GPS-denied environment through improvements in sensing, localization, path planning and obstacle avoidance. Sensing is the highest challenge of the MINION project as there are no optimal COTS sensors for this task. Robotic Research has developed a structured light approach for ground robotic systems called MAPHAC which is proven, and which will be used on the MINION effort.