Design, control, and energetic characterization of a solenoid-injected monopropellant-powered actuator

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 477-486

  Shields, Bobby L ^b,c   Fite, Kevin B ^a,b   Goldfarb, Michael ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GE AVIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuation; Mobile robot; Monopropellant; Power supply; Self powered robot

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC PERFORMANCE; INJECTION VALVES; MONOPROPELLANTS; POWER SUPPLY;

ACTUATORS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FORCE CONTROL; SERVOMOTORS; SOLENOIDS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33947138101     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2006.878531     Document Type: Article

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