SBIR Phase I: Hermetic, Expeditionary Sailing Vessel

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是利用多体帆船管理和自主性方面的技术创新来设计一艘帆船，为偏远地区提供快速，经济的供应。这项技术旨在能够更可靠地使用多体帆船运送燃料、水、食品和药品等物资。目前的选择受到成本、缺乏支持性基础设施（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-通过提供受控的淹没能力和一种方法来纠正翻转的船只，目的是能够重新浮出水面并继续航行。地面系统将使用一个旋转桅杆进行被动的实时校正。 这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目解决了目前向偏远地区提供物资的系统的物流和经济限制。该技术不是试图优化当前交付系统的要素，而是试图通过解决水面航行船舶的倾覆脆弱性和管理压载系统来解决大型船舶无法进入岛屿，缺乏货物灵活性，增加天气风险以及资本和运营经济问题。当重心（CG）高于浮力中心（CB）时，就会发生倾覆。在单体船中，龙骨是保持该比率的主要设计元素。 多船体设计带来了不同的挑战。船舶表面控制将由被动翼帆控制系统管理，该系统提供真实的时间校正。浸没性能将通过泵和压载进行管理，以便采取纠正措施。主要研究目标是设计、评估和优化横倾翼帆系统（旋转桅杆和船体参与），以及设计、评估和优化用于受控浸没和正确倾覆船舶的压载系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.