{"id":286,"date":"2019-06-17T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/goldfarb\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2019-06-30T23:51:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:51:24","slug":"monopropellant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/goldfarb\/home\/projects\/monopropellant\/","title":{"rendered":"Monopropellant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Monopropellant Powered Actuation<\/h3>\n<p>Energetic deficiencies in current power supply and actuation technology limit significantly the utility of human-scale self-powered robots.\u00a0 Such deficiencies have motivated the development of alternative actuators that have the potential to deliver improved energetic characteristics relative to battery-powered servomotors. The Center for Intelligent Mechatronics has developed several embodiments of liquid-monopropellant-powered actuators, which have been demonstrated to provide significantly improved power density (relative to battery-powered electric-motor-actuated approaches, and also improved energy density. Specifically, recent publications have demonstrated an order of magnitude improvement (relative to battery\/motor systems), based on an energetic figure of merit which combines the actuation system power and energy densities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Unified Force Controller for a Proportional-Injector Direct-Injection Monopropellant-Powered Actuator, K. B. Fite, J. E. Mitchell, E. J. Barth, and M. Goldfarb, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 128, no. 1, 2005.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dynamicsystems.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org\/article.aspx?articleid=1411131\">ASME Digital Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Design and Energetic Characterization of a Proportional-Injector, K. B. Fite and M. Goldfarb, IEEE\/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 196-204, 2006.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1618678\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sliding Mode Control of a Direct-Injection Monopropellant-Powered Actuator, K. B. Fite, J. E. Mitchell, E. J. Barth and M. Goldfarb, IEEE American Control Conference, pp. 4461-4466, June 2004.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1618678\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Design and Energetic Characterization of a Liquid-Propellant-Powered Actuator for Self-Powered Robots, M. Goldfarb, E. J. Barth, M. A. Gogola, J. A. Wehrmeyer, IEEE\/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 8 , no. 2, pp. 254-262, 2003.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1206480\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Design and Energetic Characterization of a Solenoid Injected Liquid Monopropellant Powered Actuator for Self-Powered Robots, B. Shields and M. Goldfarb, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 241-246, April 2005.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1570126\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Predictive Control for Time-Delayed Switching Control Systems, B. L. Shields, E. J. Barth, and M. Goldfarb, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 128, no. 4, 2006<\/li>\n<li>Design, Control, and Energetic Characterization of a Solenoid-Injected Monopropellant-Powered Actuator, B. Shields, K. B. Fite, and M. Goldfarb, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 254-262, 2006.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1677581\">ASME Digital Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monopropellant Powered Actuation Energetic deficiencies in current power supply and actuation technology limit significantly the utility of human-scale self-powered robots.\u00a0 Such deficiencies have motivated the development of alternative actuators that have the potential to deliver improved energetic characteristics relative to battery-powered servomotors. 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