A survey of power electronics applications in aerospace technologies

Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 147-153

  Kankam, M D ^a   Elbuluk, Malik E ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER PROCESSING UNITS (PPU); REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES (RLV); THRUST VECTOR CONTROL (TVC);

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRCRAFT; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FLYWHEELS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SATELLITES; SERVOMECHANISMS; SPACE STATIONS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0348043192     PISSN: 0146955X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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