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Jun 28, 2012
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Sherrit, Stewart; Badescu, Mircea; Bao, Xiaoqi; Chang, Zensheu, 2012, "Piezoelectric actuated drills developed at JPL and the Percussive Augmenter of Rotary Drills (PARoD)", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/42442, Presentation to Schlumberger and Placidus, Pasadena, California, June 28, 2012, JPL Open Repository
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Mar 12, 2012
Badescu, Mircea; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Sherrit, Stewart; Bao, Xiaoqi; Chang, Zensheu; Donnelly, Chris; Aldrich, Jack, 2012, "Percussive Augmenter of Rotary Drills (PARoD)", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/42456, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE Symposium, San Diego, California, March, JPL Open Repository
Increasingly, NASA exploration mission objectives include sample acquisition tasks for in-situ analysis or for potential sample return to Earth. To address the requirements for samplers that could be operated at the conditions of the various bodies in the solar system, a piezoele... |
Mar 12, 2012
Sherrit, Stewart; Ostlund, Patrick N.; Chang, Zensheu; Bao, Xiaoqi; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Widholm, Scott E.; Badescu, Mircea, 2012, "Miniaturization of planar horn motors", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/42425, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference, San Diego, California, March 3, 2012., JPL Open Repository
There is a great need for compact, efficient motors for driving various mechanisms including robots or mobility platforms. A study is currently underway to develop a new type of piezoelectric actuators with significantly more strength, low mass, small footprint, and efficiency. T... |
Mar 11, 2012
Sherrit, Stewart; Domm, Lukas; Bao, Xiaoqi; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Chang, Zensheu; Badescu, Mircea, 2012, "Single Piezo-Actuator Rotary-Hammering (SPaRH) drill", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/42457, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE Symposium, San Diego, California, March 10-14, 2012, JPL Open Repository
The search for present or past life in the Universe is one of the most important objectives of NASA’s exploration missions. Drills for subsurface sampling of rocks, ice and permafrost are an essential tool for astrobiology studies on other planets. Increasingly, it is recognized... |