Investigation of an energy harvesting small unmanned air vehicle

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6928, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Magoteaux, Kyle C ^a   Sanders, Brian ^b   Sodano, Henry A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Entropy generation; Piezoelectric; Small UAV; Solar

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (BATTERIES); PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ENERGY HARVESTING; ENTROPY GENERATION; SMALL UAV;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 44349156595     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.775851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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