SBIR Phase I: Magnetoreception Sensors for Field Enabled Navigation

与航空工业的最先进技术相比，该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是磁接收传感器技术的精度优势。2012年2月，国会通过了《联邦航空局现代化和改革法案》，要求交通部长制定一项计划，以(1)加速将民用无人机安全整合到国家空域系统中，并在计划完成之前，(2)确定某些无人机是否可以在国家空域系统中安全运行，特别强调需要检查无人机对GPS欺骗的脆弱性。2010年，美国联邦航空管理局？美国联邦航空局（FAA）在CFR§92.225和§91.227关于下一代航空运输系统（NextGen）的规定中规定，到2020年，所有飞机都必须配备广播自动相关监视（ADS-B Out），该系统可向空中交通管制提供每分钟的位置和高度传输。为了遵守ADS-B Out任务，超过25万架民用通用航空飞机将需要安装新的导航功能。不幸的是，符合ADS-B Out要求所需的大部分设备仍在开发中，航空公司正在与业界合作以实现合规。全球民用航空航天航空电子设备市场估计为83亿美元。北美军用航空电子设备市场规模为135亿美元。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在开发一种具有五阶精度的高灵敏度无线磁接收传感器技术，用于探测地球？S磁场。目标灵敏度比最先进的技术高出一个数量级以上，该技术有可能在民用和军用航空中广泛采用，以适当实时定义空间方向；无人航空系统（UASs）的制导和控制；以及生物医药行业。这一建议将确定从磁场与自由基对离子的相互作用中测量自旋共振的可行性。也就是磁感？作为开发地球精确传感器的一种手段？年代。这项创新技术是基于鸟类磁感受的科学知识。由此产生的精度将使高度在几英尺内确定，相比之下，在最先进的几百米内。磁接收传感器将对航空电子工业产生颠覆性影响。第一阶段的工作还将确定(1)构建和测试零场共振光谱仪的可行性，以及(2)构建和测试超低频电子自旋共振（ESR）光谱仪，用于研究选定的自由基对离子与地球相互作用时的自旋共振。S磁场。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the superiority of the accuracy of magnetoreception sensor technology, compared to the state-of-the-art for the aviation industry. In February 2012, Congress passed the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, requiring the Secretary of Transportation to develop a plan to (1) accelerate safely the integration of civil UASs into the national airspace system, and, before completion of the plan, (2) determine if certain drones can operate safely in the national airspace system, with particular emphasis on the need to examine the vulnerability of UASs to GPS spoofing. In 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration?s (FAA), in CFR §92.225 and §91.227 on Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), mandated that, by 2020, all aircraft be equipped with Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B Out), which provides minute-by-minute transmission of location and altitude to air traffic control. To comply with the ADS-B Out mandate, more than 250,000 civilian general aviation aircraft will require the installation of new navigation capabilities. Unfortunately, much of the equipment needed to comply with the ADS-B Out mandate is still in development, and airline operators are working with industry to achieve compliance. The global civilian aerospace avionics market is estimated to be at $8.3 billion. The North American Military Avionics market is $13.5 billion.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to develop a high-sensitivity wireless magnetoreception sensor technology with fifth order accuracy, for detecting the Earth?s magnetic field. The targeted sensitivity is more than an order of magnitude greater than the state-of-the-art, and the technology has the potential to be widely adopted in civilian and military aviation for proper real time definition of spatial orientation; guidance and control of unmanned airline systems (UASs); and the biomedical industry. This proposal will determine the feasibility of measuring the spin resonance from the interaction of the magnetic field with radical pair ions ? that is, magnetoreception ? as a means to the development of an accurate sensor of the Earth?s field. This innovative technology is based on scientific knowledge of avian magnetoreception. The resulting accuracy will enable altitude to be determined within a few feet, compared to within a few hundred meters in the state-of-the-art. The magnetoreception sensors will be disruptive to the avionics industry. The Phase I work will also determine the feasibility of (1) construction and testing of a zero field resonance spectrometer, and (2) construction and testing of ultra low-frequency electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrometer for studying spin resonance as selected radical pair ions interact with the Earth?s magnetic field.