SBIR Phase II: Drones for Industrial Indoor Robotic Applications

SBIR 第二阶段：用于工业室内机器人应用的无人机

• 批准号: 1951191
• 负责人: SK Ganapathi
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Vimaan Robotics, Inc.
• 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: 2020-04-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1951191&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Drones; Industrial

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project would be the ability to deploy drones in industrial and commercial indoor environments as aerial robots. A key requirement to deploying drones in such indoor environments in the presence of people is to make them safe and non-threatening. In addition, for drones to function as robots, they need to be made fully autonomous and minimize the need for human operation or intervention. These attributes are not possible with conventional drone technology today. The ability to use drones as aerial robots can open opportunities in applications, such as warehouse inventory scanning, construction, security, and factory automation. Such robots can enable functions such as scanning and reconstruction of the environment, or also “pick and place” at high throughput within factories. The use of drones in industrial indoor environments for these applications can also result in broader societal benefits, including improved worker safety inside industrial indoor environments (by performing tasks that may otherwise require harnesses, forklifts or ladders); reduced environmental impacts (in construction sites by catching discrepancies early and minimizing rework and material wastage), and larger benefits (enabling automated factories of the future). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Project has the potential to advance the frontiers of knowledge in design and control systems for use in drones and other applications. Drones face challenges relating to efficiency, noise and safety. This research addresses design and control systems for rotorcraft and enables improved performance, broadening the range of applications. This research project will be focused on the design and modeling of the system, development of the control mechanisms for the system, and integration, test and demonstration to advance legacy technologies hitherto deployed in rotorcraft.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.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是在工业和商业室内环境中部署无人机作为空中机器人的能力。 在有人在场的室内环境中部署无人机的一个关键要求是使它们安全且不具威胁性。 此外，要使无人机发挥机器人的作用，它们需要完全自主，并最大限度地减少对人类操作或干预的需求。 这些属性是不可能与传统的无人机技术今天。 将无人机用作空中机器人的能力可以在仓库库存扫描、建筑、安全和工厂自动化等应用中打开机会。 这种机器人可以实现扫描和环境重建等功能，或者在工厂内以高吞吐量进行“拾取和放置”。 在工业室内环境中使用无人机进行这些应用还可以带来更广泛的社会效益，包括改善工业室内环境中的工人安全（通过执行可能需要安全带、叉车或梯子的任务）;减少对环境的影响（在施工现场，通过及早发现差异并最大限度地减少返工和材料浪费），以及更大的好处（实现未来的自动化工厂）。这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目有可能推进无人机和其他应用中使用的设计和控制系统的知识前沿。 无人机面临着效率、噪音和安全方面的挑战。 这项研究解决了旋翼机的设计和控制系统，并提高了性能，扩大了应用范围。 该研究项目将集中于系统的设计和建模、系统控制机制的开发以及集成、测试和演示，以推进迄今为止部署在旋翼机上的传统技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。