SBIR-STTR Award

The purpose of this program is to develop and demonstrate rapid, distributed, on-demand, small-scaled, domestic manufacturing of unmanned systems capable of supporting multiple payloads depending on the situation. The proposed system should be capable of meeting multiple focus areas including (1) Agile manufacturing Unmanned Systems (UxS) products, (2) Control systems for unmanned platforms, and, (3) Notional payload concepts based on using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies. Hydronalix and its team have already demonstrated the capability to manufacture UxS for a variety of applications including disaster relief, communication, situational awareness, supply delivery, victim identification and extraction. Hydronalix will manufacture and demonstrate UxS for various applications. We will demonstrate these prototype systems with Navy Fleet operators for preliminary evaluation. It is anticipated that there will be initial value in a family of systems for subsurface, air, and surface platforms with 100% interchangeable subsystems and components.

Benefit:
Successful completion of this program will have commercialization impact, with optimized designs to be evaluated and tested in parallel with the prototype manufacturing system prototype. Testing will provide valuable feedback and allow the prototype to develop components that could be sold commercially to DoD primes who install shipboard systems. It is expected that Hydronalix would manufacture these systems and commercialize them.

Keywords:
COTS, COTS, control systems, Robots, Unmanned Systems, 3D printing

Hydronalix will develop and demonstrate agile, rapid, on-demand domestic manufacturing of low-cost self-propelled rescue can. Based on the advanced domestic manufacturing capabilities developed in a related Phase I and Phase II program for Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAS) this program proposes to develop a new low cost self-propelled rescue can. Current rescue cans are incapable of propelling themselves to rescue an individual, and required a trained lifeguard to swim the device to an induvial in need. This is also an opportunity for technology to leap ahead over our countries adversaries, also serving to increase the production of domestic manufacturing of life-saving equipment.

Benefit:
The proposed concept would be high value for first responder missions hereby significantly increasing commercial opportunities. A large commercial market ensures manufacture stability. The ARIEL USV will go in Navy humanitarian missions by Fleet Operations. The second early adopter will most likely be US Marine Corps Mine Counter Mine Very Shallow Water (MCM VSW) type of missions.

Keywords:
UxS, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, unmanned aircraft systems, Unmanned Surface Vehicles, UAS, Unmanned Systems, USV, HADR