Do you enjoy learning about how to make objects accelerate to high velocity? Then, this presentation is for you! We are going to discuss how a constant pulse of current creates a viable system for launching projectiles and aircraft at velocities up to Mach 7. There are many methods for creating the large-current, short-timeframe current pulse required to drive the system.
Chris Martino,
Collins Aerospace
This talk will present the unique characteristics of a linear motor system, the energy storage needed to drive the system, and the electrical power conversion necessary to drive the system. Developments in wide bandgap semiconductor devices are enabling efficient, medium voltage (500 V to 5 kV), fast switching (nanosecond rise and fall times) power supplies to drive these linear motor systems. If you’re looking for a wide-ranging discussion of power electronics supplies, energy storage components, and wide bandgap semiconductor devices, this is the place to be.
Dr. Chris Martino is a senior principal engineer at Collins Aerospace. He was commissioned a General Unrestricted Line Ensign through NROTC after receiving his bachelors of science in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1994. He achieved a masters of science in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA in 2015. He has completed the Bettis Reactor Engineering School and was granted an associate of arts degree in Italian from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in 2003.
He has worked at NAVSEA 08K, Washington, DC; U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE, Port Hueneme, CA; Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO), Baghdad, Iraq; Public Works Department, NAS Sigonella, Sicily; Seabee Enlisted Community Manager, Millington, TN; Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), JEB Little Creek-Fort Story, VA; United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, IA.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of California; a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, SAME, and the Acquisition Professional Community; completed JPME Level I through the Air Command and Staff College; and is a Seabee Combat Warfare Officer.
His projects at Collins Aerospace have included Common Functional Block development, Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program review, Microelectronics Commons project and topic bidding, the DARPA Joint University Microelectronics Program, a MEMS driver circuit for Bright Silicon Technologies, DARPA ScAN bidding, bid preparation for a National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) project, primary investigator for the DARPA Compact Front-end Filters at the Element-level (COFFEE) TA2 project, and primary investigator on a spur free power supply Internal Research and Development (IR&D) project.