Piezo actuators to vibrate the sand of Mars !

The NASA Goddart Space Flight Center (GSFC) just starts to publish the details of the next rover to be sent on Mars end of 2009: CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES has delivered the flight units (Amplified Piezo Actuators already qualified under French Space Agency (CNES) contracts) to GSFC by Mid 2007. The SAM instrument is now ready for flight … Read more

Rotor research by ONERA !

ONERA is working on the development of a rotor with active-control blades and our piezo-electric actuators are contributing to this major technological breakthrough ! See press release…

The new book “Adaptronics and Smart Structures…

… Basics, Materials, Design and Applications”, Editor Pr. Harmut Janocha 2nd, revised edition is now released (Springer ISBN 978-3-540-71965-6 ). CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES contributed to 2 chapters: 6.2. Piezoelectric actuators 6.3. Magnetostrictives actuators …that performs the worldwide state of the art in the active materials technology, proposed by CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES in its mechatronics engineering activity.