SBIR Phase I: Advanced Telescopic Gunsight

SBIR 第一阶段：先进的望远镜瞄准具

• 批准号: 1946356
• 负责人: Omid Jahromi
• 金额: $ 21.96万
• 依托单位: LUCIDA RESEARCH LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-15 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946356&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Advanced; Telescopic; Gunsight

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to improve the combat effectiveness and safety of warfighters and law enforcement officers by making their gunsights significantly more rugged and reliable than current state of practice. The research and development conducted under this project will enhance scientific and technological understanding of optical beam steering and optical guidance techniques applicable to broad fields of science and engineering, such as astronomy, missile tracking, remote sensing and self-driving cars. The proposed project aims to develop an extremely rugged telescopic sight. Once a telescopic sight is mounted on a rifle, it is necessary to adjust its “point of aim” so that it corresponds to the “point of impact” where the bullet actually hits the target. Most telescopic sights available today shift the position of the crosshairs inside the sight to adjust the point of aim. Military and hunting applications require adjustment precision of ½ of a minute of arc or better. Because the turrets and the springs holding the crosshairs in conventional gun sights are delicate mechanical pieces, conventional telescopic sights lose their precision over time due to the rifle’s recoil and other vibrations encountered during field use. This project will advance a completely new design in which the crosshairs remain fixed while the image of the target formed on the crosshairs is shifted optically. We will study the potential for optical aberrations and mitigation techniques, then optimize the design for both image quality and cost of manufacture.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛影响是通过使他们的瞄准器比目前的实践状态更加坚固和可靠，来提高作战人员和执法人员的战斗力和安全性。 在该项目下进行的研究和开发将提高对适用于天文学、导弹跟踪、遥感和自动驾驶汽车等广泛科学和工程领域的光束转向和光学制导技术的科学和技术认识。拟议的项目旨在开发一种极其坚固的望远镜瞄准具。一旦将望远镜瞄准器安装在步枪上，就必须调整其“瞄准点”，使其与子弹实际击中目标的“弹着点”相对应。 现在大多数的望远镜瞄准器都是通过改变瞄准器内十字线的位置来调整瞄准点。 军事和狩猎应用需要半弧分或更好的调整精度。由于传统的枪瞄具中的炮塔和保持十字准线的弹簧是精密的机械部件，传统的望远镜瞄准具由于步枪的后坐力和在野外使用期间遇到的其他振动而随着时间的推移而失去其精度。 该项目将推进一种全新的设计，其中十字准线保持固定，而在十字准线上形成的目标图像被光学移动。我们将研究潜在的光学像差和缓解技术，然后优化设计的图像质量和制造成本。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。