A-TECH CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A09-143

A-TECH CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$69,847
Agency
Department of Defense · Army
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
A09-143
Solicitation
2009.3
NAICS
Place of performance
NM
Period
2010-09-07 → 2011-03-06

Description

Applied Technology Associates (ATA) proposes to develop an inertially stabilized smart camera (ISSC) which provides an innovative inertial-sensor-based / digital-image-stabilization hybrid solution to the problems posed by long standoff, narrow field of view imaging. This solution makes use of ATA’s magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) angular rate sensors (ARS), FPGA-based mechanical control and digital stability algorithms to achieve the solicitation objectives. Low frequency motion is addressed through closed-loop mechanical control, and higher frequency motion is addressed through the use of an open loop sensed motion based digital stability algorithm.