SBIR Phase I: Magnetoreception Sensors for Field Enabled Navigation

该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是与航空业最先进的技术相比，磁接收传感器技术的准确性优越。2012年2月，国会通过了FAA现代化和改革法案，要求运输部长制定一项计划，以（1）加速民用无人机安全地融入国家空域系统，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，特别强调需要研究无人机系统对GPS欺骗的脆弱性。2010年，联邦航空管理局？美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）在关于下一代航空运输系统（NextGen）的CFR §92.225和§91.227中规定，到2020年，所有飞机都必须配备广播式自动相关监视（ADS-B Out），它可以向空中交通管制提供逐分钟的位置和高度传输。为了遵守ADS-B Out的规定，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，遵守ADS-B Out规定所需的大部分设备仍在开发中，航空公司运营商正在与行业合作以实现合规性。全球民用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为135亿美元。这个小型企业创新研究（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？的磁场。目标灵敏度比最先进的技术高出一个数量级以上，该技术有可能被广泛应用于民用和军用航空，用于空间方位的正确真实的时间定义;无人驾驶航空系统（UAS）的制导和控制;以及生物医学行业。这一建议将确定测量的自旋共振的磁场与自由基对离子的相互作用的可行性？也就是磁感应作为一种手段，以发展一个准确的传感器的地球？s字段。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确定在几英尺内，相比之下，在几百米的国家的最先进的磁接收传感器将是颠覆性的航空电子工业。第一阶段的工作还将确定（1）零场共振光谱仪的建造和测试的可行性，以及（2）超低频电子自旋共振（ESR）光谱仪的建造和测试的可行性，以研究选定的自由基对离子与地球相互作用时的自旋共振。的磁场。

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.