SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Reliable Geo-Limitation System for Unmanned Aircraft (LAR-TOPS-244)
- Notice Date
- 12/20/2019 12:02:11 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 927110
— Space Research and Technology
- Contracting Office
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- T2P-LaRC-00030
- Response Due
- 12/18/2020 2:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 01/02/2021
- Point of Contact
- Langley Research Center
- E-Mail Address
-
LARC-DL-technologygateway@mail.nasa.gov
(LARC-DL-technologygateway@mail.nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA�s Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology.� License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use.��NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA Langley Research Center has developed a breakthrough technology called Safeguard that can alleviate hazards with unmanned aircraft (UA) flying beyond their authorized perimeters and into no-fly zones.� Safeguard works by continuously detecting a UAs proximity to virtual perimeters established around no-fly-zones (i.e., stay-out or stay-in regions and altitude limits), and taking action to guarantee the perimeters are not breached.� The key to the design is streamlined functionality that has been formally verified to guarantee detection of possible perimeter violations. Safeguard is applicable to both rotary- and fixed-wing systems and substantially outperforms embedded geo-fences in terms of reliably and dependably stopping excursions into no-fly zones.� Safeguard has the potential to provide a means to comply with pending regulatory directives for geo-limitation for a burgeoning UAS industry. Safeguard is an independent avionics system that can be easily ported to virtually any UA. The current prototype weighs approximately 1 lb (without hardware optimization).� The invention innovations include formally verified algorithms to monitor and predict impending boundary violations through flight termination trajectory estimation, and a system architecture that facilitates performance certification.� The system can be configured without sole reliance on the global positioning system to avoid known problems with GPS inaccuracies and unavailability.� It is independent of the UA and any on-board components, such as the autopilot, for physical and logical separation from non-aviation-grade systems.� The perimeter boundaries are described using polygons, which can approximate almost any shape, and there are practically no limits to the number of shapes and boundaries.� The algorithms for establishing the validity of a boundary and for detecting proximity to all defined boundaries are based on rigorous mathematical models that have been formally verified. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA�s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/LAR-TOPS-244 If you have any questions, please contact Langley Research Center at LARC-DL-technologygateway@mail.nasa.gov� �with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this FBO notice and your preferred contact information.� For more information about licensing other NASA-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Technology Transfer Portal at�https://technology.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA�s Technology Transfer Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities.��No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.
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