SBIR-STTR Award

Technology in Practice, LLC (TIP) proposes to use a Commercial of the Shelf turbojet engine to provide the trust required. Control of the thrust will be chosen among 4 different proposed options. In each case the thrust will be precisely controlled by a combination of fore/aft thrust or thrust vectoring. TIP will study various scenarios among these 4 options including maintaining constant engine power or modulating engine power. TIP will down-select to the best option with respect to; cost, schedule, and technical risk.;

Benefit:
With the addition of relatively low, autonomous, controllable, and variable g-profile test capabilities TIP anticipates an increase of test programs at the High Speed Test Track.

Technology in Practice LLC (TIP) proposes construction of a test bed developed during the Phase I effort and proven to be feasible and cost-effective. The propulsion system and bed assembly allows for adequate power-to-weight ratio to meet the acceleration/velocity/displacement profile requested by HHSTT, and precise autonomous velocity control of the test bed is well within the purview of accepted practice. Therefore, the VMS inertial correlation errors can be quantified at the minimum precision required by HHSTT; i.e., the pitch gyro initial offset versus pitch gyro g-sensitive drift and the pitch gyro fixed drift versus pitch gyro g^2-sensitive drift error sets can maintain adequate decoupling capabilities. A prototype will be constructed during Phase II for demonstration.