Development and Demonstration of INSTAR - Inertially Stabilized Rifle

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5056, Issue , 2003, Pages 255-266

  Brei, Diann ^a   Vendlinski, James ^a   Lindner, Douglas K ^b   Zhu, Huiyu ^b   LaVigna, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNO SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

INSTAR; Piezoelectric; Recurve actuators; Rifle; Switching amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

RECURVE ACTUATORS; SWITCHING AMPLIFIERS;

GUNS (ARMAMENT);

EID: 0242460456     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483457     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Ervin, J. D. and D. Brei, 1998, "Recurve Piezoelectric-Strain-Amplifying Actuator Architecture", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 3, pp. 293-301.
2. Lindner, D. K., H. Zhu, C. Song, W. Huang, D. Cheng, 2002, "Low Input Voltage Switching Amplifiers for Piezoelectric Actuators," Proceedings of SPIE's 2002 North American Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, Anne-Marie McGowen, Ed., San Diego, CA.