SBIR Phase I: Hermetic, Expeditionary Sailing Vessel

SBIR 第一阶段：密封式远征帆船

• 批准号: 2126527
• 负责人: Michael Jones
• 金额: $ 25.59万
• 依托单位: SUBSEASAIL, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2126527&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Hermetic; Expeditionary; Sailing

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project is to leverage technical innovations in multi-hull sail management and autonomy to design a sailing vessel that provides fast, economical delivery of supplies to remote locations. This technology seeks to be able to use multi-hull sailing vessels more reliably for the delivery of supplies such as fuel, water, food, and medicine. Current options are limited by cost, lack of supporting infrastructure (ports), and shipper interest. The vessel is designed to de-risk the supply chain with particular focus on underserved locations. The key technical innovations address a vulnerability of multi-hull sailing vessels - catastrophic capsizing - by providing a controlled submerging capability and a method to right a flipped vessel with the goal to be able to re-surface and continue a voyage. The surface system will use a pivoting mast for passive, real-time corrections. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project addresses the logistical and economic limitations of current systems that deliver supplies to remote locations. Rather than attempting to optimize the elements of the current delivery systems, the technology seeks to address island inaccessibility to large vessels, lack of cargo flexibility, increasing weather risks, and capital and operating economics by addressing the capsizing vulnerabilities of a surface sailing vessel and managing ballast system. Capsizing occurs when the center of gravity (CG) is higher than the center of buoyancy (CB). In mono-hull vessels, the keel is the primary design element that maintains this ratio. Multi-hull designs introduce different challenges. Vessel surface control will be managed by a passive wing sail control system that provides real time corrections. Submerged performance will be managed by pumps and ballast for corrective action. The primary research objectives are to design, evaluate, and optimize a heeling wingsail system (pivoting masts and hull involvement), and to design, evaluate, and optimize a ballast system for controlled submerging as well as to right capsized vessels.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.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是利用多船体帆管理和自主的技术创新来设计一种帆船，为偏远地区提供快速、经济的物资运输。这项技术寻求能够更可靠地使用多体帆船来运送燃料、水、食品和药品等物资。目前的选择受到成本、缺乏支持基础设施（港口）和托运人利益的限制。该船旨在降低供应链的风险，特别关注服务不足的地区。关键的技术创新解决了多体帆船的脆弱性——灾难性倾覆——通过提供受控的潜水能力和一种方法来纠正翻转的船只，目标是能够重新浮出水面并继续航行。地面系统将使用旋转桅杆进行被动实时校正。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目解决了目前向偏远地区输送物资系统的物流和经济限制。该技术不是试图优化现有运输系统的要素，而是试图通过解决水面帆船和压载系统的倾覆脆弱性，解决大型船只无法进入岛屿、货物灵活性不足、天气风险增加、资本和运营经济等问题。当重心（CG）高于浮心（CB）时发生倾覆。在单体船体中，龙骨是维持这一比例的主要设计元素。多船体设计带来了不同的挑战。船舶表面控制将由一个提供实时校正的被动翼帆控制系统进行管理。水下性能将由泵和镇流器进行管理，以便采取纠正措施。主要研究目标是设计、评估和优化侧倾翼帆系统（旋转桅杆和船体），以及设计、评估和优化控制下潜和右倾覆船舶的压载系统。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。