Power considerations for MAST platforms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7679, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Morgan, Brian ^a   Bedair, Sarah ^a   Pulskamp, Jeffrey S ^a   Polcawich, Ronald G ^a   Meyer, Christopher ^a,b   Dougherty, Christopher ^b   Lin, Xue ^b   Arnold, David ^b   Bashirullah, Rizwan ^b   Miller, Ryan ^c   Roosz, Mark ^c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomous systems; MEMS passives; mobility; power conversion; power sources; UAV

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; MOBILITY; POWER CONVERSION; POWER SOURCES; UAV;

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; LITHIUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SPACE SHUTTLES;

FIXED WINGS;

EID: 79953737022     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.849515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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