Design and fabrication of ultralight high-voltage power circuits for flapping-wing robotic insects

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2070-2077

  Karpelson, Michael ^a   Whitney, John P ^a   Wei, Gu Yeon ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; BOOST CONVERTER; CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY; CONTROL FUNCTIONALITY; CONTROL METHODS; CUSTOM MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; DRIVE SIGNAL; ENERGY SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAPPING-WING; FLYING ROBOTS; HIGH-VOLTAGE SWITCHING; HIGH-VOLTAGES; LASER MICRO-MACHINING; LOW-VOLTAGE; MICROMACHINED; POWER CIRCUIT; POWER SUPPLY; SEARCH AND RESCUE; TAPPED INDUCTOR; ULTRA-LIGHT; WEIGHT MINIMIZATION;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; MACHINE DESIGN; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER ELECTRONICS; ROBOTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TOPOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79955782742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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