Piezoelectric polymers actuators for precise shape control of large scale space antennas

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chen, Qin ^a   Natale, Don ^a   Neese, Bret ^a   Ren, Kailiang ^a   Lin, Minren ^a   Zhang, Q M ^a   Pattom, Matthew ^a   Wang, K W ^a   Fang, Houfei ^b   Im, Eastwood ^b  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; Deployable antenna; Electroactive polymers (EAP); Piezoelectric; Shape control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR CONFIGURATION; DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP); SHAPE CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; COPOLYMERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; POLYMERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 35148873541     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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