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A student’s project for the high school science fair is to design, build, and operate a moving electro-mechanical robot that will be an active ‘‘player’’ in a local robot soccer tournament. His primary goal is to design the device so that it can trap a close-by soccer ball, and then rapidly kick it past a defending goalie into the net of the defending team. His physics teacher suggests that as a first step he should consider mathematically modeling the performance of a light-weight kicking device powered by a rapidly-acting linear solenoid actuator.
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Alber, I.E. (2012). Design of a high school science-fair electro-mechanical robot. In: Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22537-6_2
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