SBIR-STTR Award

Space Information Labs (SIL) and South Dakota State University (SDSU) have teamed to provide Navy an innovative, but also producible, approach to a robust mission and safety critical Li-Ion battery man-agement system across Navy platforms to include aircraft, helicopters, UAS, missiles and directed energy weapons. SILs modular and scalable Li-Ion Intelli-Pack battery system will be designed to from 28Volts to 400Vdc with line replaceable units (LRUs) that can be easily troubleshoot and tested in the field. The robust intelligent BMS will be designed to work in extreme Navy environments (Aircraft, Helicopters, Missiles, etc.), and be qualified per MIL-PRF-29595A and NAVSEA S9310-AQ-SAF-010 design and environmental qualification requirement guidelines.

Benefit:
With the support of Navy, MDA, Naval Crane and USAF SMC - LAAFB, SIL will pursue technology insertion opportunity in selected programs; this may include Phase II augmentation with matching funds, or Phase III funds from SBIR and DoD programs. If technically sound and cost effective, our products may also have customers throughout commercial rockets and small satellites as well as DoD space and missile programs. Anticipated DoD customers for this technology are Navy and other DoD organizations including United States Air Force for Aircraft and UAV projects such as F35, F22, Heli-copters, Global Hawk, Predator, Reaper, etc. Potential customers for this technology include Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Boeing Space, and other primes, e.g. Northrop Grumman and Orbital Sciences. Other potential commercial applications include robotics, electric vehicles and UAS

Keywords:
Li-ion, Li-ion, Energy, BMS, Helicopters, Batteries, Smart, Aircraft, Power

An advanced Li-Ion Battery Management System for DOD mission and safety critical platforms. The majority of Li-Ion Battery Management Systems (BMS) for DoD aircraft, helicopter, and directed energy weapons are custom designs for the individual Aerospace platform. This leads to increased cost over the battery life cycle due to the requirement to maintain the production facilities which produce replacement batteries for each Navy program. The DoD must procure and maintain spare batteries for each program because the battery structural, thermal and electrical interfaces are custom one-of-akind for each platform. With modular and scalable BMS standardization, its possible for different Navy Aerospace pro-grams to establish a joint battery procurement strategy. This would reduce the overall number of re-placement batteries that are required to be purchased. The innovation required to accomplish this goal is to develop a standardized battery module with a robust BMS that would have common electrical, thermal and structural interfaces for multiple Navy Aerospace programs.

Benefit:
An advanced Li-Ion Battery Management System that can be used on different DOD Aerospace platforms to include Launch Vehicles, Missiles, UAS, Balloons, Aircraft and Directed Energy Weapons. Other commercial applications for an advanced BMS would included electric vehicles for transportation, portable power applications, robotics, green-tech, etc.

Keywords:
Energy, cell, Li-ion, Balancing, Battery, Power, Safety, Protection