Gas Generator Actuator Arrays for Flight Control of Spinning Body Projectiles

Abstract

This paper presents batch-fabrication lamination approaches for the realization of large arrays of high-power, short-duration gas generator actuators (GGAs), and system implementation approaches for integration of these GGAs into a 40-mm diameter gun-launched projectile for projectile flight control and course correction. The GGAs are tested to determine the impulse delivered per GGA and the time required delivering the impulse. The arrays of GGAs are connected with control electronics and integrated into a 40-mm diameter projectile. The final result is a flight control system for a small-scale projectile; fabrication and characterization of the actuator component of this system will be presented here.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA462961

Entities

People

  • Ari Glezer
  • Brian A. English
  • Christopher S. Rinehart
  • Mark G. Allen
  • Priya Gadiraju

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Actuators
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Combustors
  • Control Systems
  • Diameters
  • Fabrication
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Flow Fields
  • Generators
  • Gun Launched
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Ignition Lag
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Projectiles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems