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Hybrid Guidance System for Relative Navigation

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNG06LA29C
Agency Tracking Number: 055226
Amount: $69,990.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: S8.01
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-02-02
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2006-07-24
Small Business Information
6767 Old Madison Pike, Suite 410
Huntsville, AL 35806-2172
United States
DUNS: 363526914
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Stephen Granade
 Principal Investigator
 (256) 971-0036
 granade@aos-inc.com
Business Contact
 Halley Little
Title: Business Official
Phone: (256) 971-0036
Email: contracts@aos-inc.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Future NASA architectures and missions will involve many distributed platforms that must work together. This in turn requires guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) technology such as systems that determine spacecraft relative range and attitude. The proposed Hybrid Guidance System (HGS) will be such a system, providing increased relative navigation accuracy and robustness while reducing mass, volume, and power consumption by a factor of 2 to 4. The HGS's key innovation is integration of three proven and developed sensor technologies (laser-based retro-image pattern matching, laser range-finding, and correlation) into a low-power package. We will develop non-linear navigation estimation algorithms to fuse the sensor outputs together as well as to integrate the system output with other on-board navigation systems. The state estimate generation using three different techniques will increase the system's robustness through the ability to reject faulty measurements from one component of the system. Phase I of the SBIR will verify feasibility of the HGS design and the navigation algorithms and will culminate in a realistic mission simulation of vehicles using the HGS as part of an integrated GN&C system. The results of this simulation will serve as an excellent springboard to Phase II HGS prototype hardware and embedded software development.

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