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J1939 CAN Bus Splitter
The CAN bus splitter from Trombetta (Milwaukee, WI) provides a cost-effective and space-efficient way of connecting multiple devices to the J1939 CAN bus. Featuring a small footprint, this module reduces cost by eliminating Y adapters and extra harnesses typically used to provide additional connections to the bus. The module...
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Longer, Lower, Wider Fashion Reaches Formula One for 2017
American Formula One viewers squinting through bleary eyes at the live early-morning broadcasts from Europe have noticed changes to the sophisticated race cars for the 2017: they are...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Artificial Intelligence Becomes a Reality
The soaring role of software has already fostered many changes for automakers, but those transitions may pale in comparison to the challenges expected when artificial intelligence is employed in the...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Lidar Heats up as Sensor Demand Rises
Many autonomous-driving development plans call for deploying a handful of solid-state Lidar sensors on each vehicle, but the Lidar modules used for today’s prototype vehicles all are mechanical...
Product Briefs Aerospace
High Temperature, Electrically Conductive Adhesive
The EO-98HT from EpoxySet (Lincoln, RI) is electrically conductive epoxy for electrical circuits.
Executive Viewpoints Propulsion
Meeting the Ignition Challenges of Next-Gen Off-Highway Gaseous-Fueled Engines
Environmental pressures and total cost of ownership are beginning to change the types of engines used for off-highway applications, and this trend is likely to...
Articles AR/AI
AI Digs Deeper
Artificial Intelligence has been around since the 1950s, but in many ways it’s still an emerging technology. Large systems for years have utilized various forms of AI, but the technology only now is becoming viable in mass...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
An Alternative Approach: FPT Industrial Invests in Industrial Engines Running on Natural Gas
The demand for greater environmental sustainability in urban areas coupled with the upcoming reforms that are expected to drastically reduce limits...
News Propulsion
Future Engine Emissions Reduction Strategies
Demands on off-highway vehicles and trucks today are exceedingly complex. Equipment must be more environmentally friendly, work in a more aggressive environment, run longer hours and rely upon...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA to Establish New Space Technology Research Institutes
NASA has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies critical to extending...
News Defense
Incremental Improvements Can Lead to Huge Benefits for Aircraft Programs
Today, virtually all commercial aircraft possess sophisticated systems that contribute to a comfortable—not to mention safe and healthy—environment for passengers....
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Creating the Future: A Better Way to Map Terrain
Mark Skoog, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, led the development of new software that stores terrain data in a more efficient and accurate way. The achievement,...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
AMRDEC Technologies to Improve Air and Missile Defense
Engineers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) are working on a trio of technologies to explore improving existing air and missile...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Drop of Mock Nuclear Weapon Is First of New Flight Tests
From a distance, the drop of a mock nuclear weapon — containing only non-nuclear components — was a mere puff of dust rising from a dry lake bed at Nevada’s Tonopah Test Range....
INSIDER Defense
Mobile High-Energy Laser Shoots Down Drones
A Stryker combat vehicle equipped with a 5kW laser and an array of sensors spent several minutes scanning the horizon for a wayward "enemy" drone. On a television screen in a nearby tent off...
News Automotive
Volvo Buses Launches B8R Chassis Globally
Volvo Buses has started the global launch of its latest chassis powered by the 8-L Volvo engine. The Volvo B8R and B8RLE replace the top-selling Volvo B7R and B7RLE, which saw a production run...
News Transportation
Tata Motors to Supply Safari Storme 4x4 to Indian Armed Forces
Tata Motors has signed a contract to supply 3192 units of the Tata Safari Storme 4x4 to the Indian Armed Forces under a new category of vehicles known as GS800 (General Service...
INSIDER Aerospace
New System Assists X-Planes with Super-Fast Data Transmission
A network and communication architecture that can more efficiently move data from research aircraft, while using half the bandwidth of traditional methods, could eventually also...
INSIDER Aerospace
In-Flight, On-Demand Hydrogen Production for Greener Aircraft
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology developed a process that can be used onboard aircraft while in flight to produce hydrogen from water (including wastewater on the plane)...
Product Briefs Aerospace
Electrically Conductive Adhesive
LOCTITE ABLESTIK ICP 3535M1 electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) from Henkel (Irvine, CA) provides a robust alternative to solder for many applications, lowers component assembly stress, and facilitates...
News Software
VW Adds Gesture Control to New Golf
Volkswagen is becoming a company of gestures. In the Virtual Engineering Laboratory (VEL) at its Wolfsburg headquarters, designers use gesture control to modify concepts via augmented reality. Now it can...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Kia Motors Signs Agreement to Build First Manufacturing Plant in India
Kia Motors recently signed a US$1.1 billion investment agreement to build its first manufacturing facility in India. At a late April ceremony, the automaker completed a...
Articles Materials
Innovations for Lightweighting: Magna and Ford test carbon-fiber subframes
Carbon-fiber reinforced polymers are the yin and yang of automotive lightweighting. Their strength-to-weight ratio handily outperforms chrome-moly steel,...
Articles Materials
Innovations for Lightweighting: Audi brings CFRP to 2018 A8
Audi helped pioneer aluminum-intensive bodies-in-white in volume production but for its recently unveiled 2018 A8 the company adopts a broader mixed-materials approach. Besides...
Articles Automotive
Innovations for Lightweighting: Eaton’s “hybrid” materials replace metal
As product portfolios go, Eaton Corp.’s may be the broadest and deepest among Tier 1s supplying the mobility sectors. Materials innovation is core to the seven...
Articles Automotive
Innovations for Lightweighting: FCA slashes Pacifica mass with magnesium, hot-stamped steel
For the past 20 years, the steel industry has parried the most aggressive thrusts of its aluminum competitors and outpaced them in real-world...
Briefs Aerospace
Experimental Confirmation of an Aquatic Swimming Motion Theoretically of Very Low Drag and High Efficiency
It has been established theoretically that self-propulsion of deformable bodies in ideal fluid can occur with a careful specification of...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Gesture-Based Controls for Robots: Overview and Implications for Use by Soldiers
Afuture vision of the use of autonomous and intelligent robots in dismounted military operations is for soldiers to interact with robots as teammates, much like...
Articles Aerospace
Fast-Tracking Autonomous Vehicles with Simulation
Artificial intelligence developments are set to fundamentally transform mobility, whether it is mobility of weapon payloads, supply deliveries, urban commuters, warehouse goods, delivery...
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