This federal contract award, valued at $222,790.32, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to develop gecko-inspired adhesive technologies for space applications in manipulation and mobility. The goal is to customize these adhesive materials for various space operations, such as grappling and deorbiting space debris, as well as for external robotic crawling and inspection of spacecraft. The research...
This federal contract award, valued at $252,000.00, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research related to robotics and autonomy in space exploration. The contract is a grant for research, with an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2027. Stanford University, a renowned private research institution, will leverage its expertise in areas such as engineering, computer science, and...
This is a $264,157.90 research grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for the development of a novel robotic design that combines mobility and manipulation capabilities for space environments. The award does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Stanford's status as a leading research institution competing for federal work. Stanford University has a long history of receiving both prime and...
This is a $258,306.71 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University. The contract is focused on demonstrating the feasibility of soft, stretchable, and flexible textile-silicone composite sensors for use in novel space robotics applications. This research aligns with Technical Area 04: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Section 1, Item 5 (4.1.5) under the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $240,982.24 grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University, also known as Stanford University, for research related to the coordination and control of multiple spacecraft for future NASA missions. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. Stanford University, a private non-profit research university, will provide research and development services to NASA, focusing on methods for navigating, controlling, and...
This federal grant award to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University, aims to develop new theoretical and algorithmic frameworks that enable mobile robots to safely and efficiently navigate unknown environments. The $303,813.98 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will support research into using machine learning techniques to intelligently reason about unobserved environments beyond a...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stanford University, a private research university located in Stanford, California. The $264,284.63 grant is for research focused on improving entry guidance systems for future NASA missions that seek to land larger payloads on planetary bodies like Mars. The research aims to develop a unified framework for modeling, trajectory design, and control that explicitly addresses the challenges of...
This is a federal training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Carnegie Mellon University. The $279,864.65 grant is focused on developing new methods to analyze the quality of robotic grasps, particularly for compliant grippers that apply pulling and shear loads, such as microspine and gecko adhesive grippers. The research aims to expand grasp quality analysis beyond traditional rigid-body assumptions, develop algorithms to...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20K1167, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University, doing business as Stanford University. The $181,118.99 grant is for research to develop a new methodology for simulating flow environments produced during supersonic retropropulsion (SRP), which is a key deceleration strategy NASA uses to land larger payloads on Mars. The contract is classified as a grant for research and...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0540, was granted to The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University, a renowned private research institution located in Stanford, California. The contract, valued at $635,000.00, is a grant for research focused on "LONG-TERM SPACE EXPLORATION MISSIONS REQUIRE EFFICIENT SYSTEMS FOR CRYOGENIC PROPELLANT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT." The award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a...
This federal contract award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) aims to develop adhesion-based grasping and manipulation capabilities for assistive free-flyers in space environments. The $625,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center will fund research into mechanisms for grasping and manipulating payloads, supplies, and tools inside and outside spacecraft using controllable adhesives inspired by gecko feet. The project will also devise control and planning algorithms to enable free-flyers to navigate complex space structures and grasp and manipulate payloads. This work responds to NASA's interests in advancing technologies for assistive free-flyers, including terrain adhesion, grappling, free-floating robots, and onboard trajectory planning. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Stanford's status as a leading research institution competing for federal work.