Vibration energy harvesting for unmanned aerial vehicles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6928, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Anton, Steven R ^a   Inman, Daniel J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Photovoltaic; Piezoelectric; Solar energy; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

FUSELAGES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 44349153038     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.774990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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