En'urga Inc. — Department of Transportation SBIR Phase I: 141FR1
En'urga Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Transportation.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Transportation in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $150,000. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code 141FR1 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Transportation
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 141FR1
- Solicitation
- DTRT5714RSBIR1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- IN
- Period
- 2014-07-31 → 2015-01-31
Description
This Phase I SBIR project will evaluate the feasibility of utilizing low cost and high accuracy local position sensors and transmitters to autonomously estimate Mid-chord offset in rails. The two innovative parts of the proposed system are (1) a set of miniature and highly accurate local position sensors and transmitters for estimating the absolute positions of the mid point and end points of a 62 feet or 124 feet long segment of a rail in a Cartesian coordinate frame, and (2) a user interface that enables a single user to utilize the system to estimate the Mid-chord offset distance with an error of less than 2 mm. There are three tasks that are planned for the Phase I research. The three tasks are: (1) design and fabrication of the local position sensor system that can be easily mounted onto a rail by a single person, (2) development of the hardware and user interface that assists in positioning the sensors accurately on the rail, and (3) a rigorous evaluation of the absolute accuracy obtained by the system in a laboratory setting. It is anticipated that the feasibility of the system will be demonstrated during the Phase I work. A prototype system will be developed and evaluated during the Phase II work. At the end of the Phase II work, the system will be ready for commercialization.