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Unmanned Systems

WCX17: 3M Enabling Machine Vision for Self-Driving Vehicles

3M is leveraging its 78-year history in lane markings and retroreflective traffic sign material to develop products for the automated driving environment.

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Software

New Autonomous-Driving Module Uses Raw Sensor Data to Enhance Speed

The race to gain a foothold in the emerging autonomous vehicle market continues to attract more players. Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division is joining the game,...

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Electronics & Computers

WCX17: IAV and HPE Showcase Connectivity Via Demo Car

Messages that warn of a nasty pothole ahead or heavy rain falling two miles away are among a myriad of information possibilities for the future connected car.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

The 3D Printing Landscape: Then and Now

Frequently used as a design validation and prototyping tool in its early days, the 3D printer now supports a much wider range of applications, from shape-conforming electronics to the creation of printed...

Application Briefs

Defense

Commando Helicopter

Leonardo-Finmeccanica Rome, Italy +39 06 32473313www.leonardocompany.com/ Leonardo-Finmeccanica announced recently that the first AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin Mk4 successfully completed its maiden flight at its Yeovil...

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Defense

Touchscreen Tablet Mission System

Inzpire Lincolnshire, UK +44 1522 688 231www.inzpire.com GECO, from UK-based Inzpire, is a military grade rugged touchscreen tablet mission system that is currently in frontline operational use with the British...

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Defense

M1 Abrams Tank Engine Updates

Honeywell Aerospace Phoenix, AZ 602-365-3099https://aerospace.honeywell.com The Honeywell-powered M1 Abrams tank has been a mainstay of the U.S. military’s heavy armored forces for more than 25 years. Over that...

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Defense

Aircraft Automation System

Aurora Flight Sciences Manassas, VA 703-369-3633www.aurora.aero Aurora Flight Sciences is breaking ground in the world of automated flight through its work on the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS)...

Technical Innovation

Software

Estimation of Excavator Manipulator Position in Real Time

Automation of hydraulic excavators is valuable due to their potential applications in hazardous environments or remote locations, such as radioactive-contaminated areas. Manipulator...

Product Briefs

Materials

Light-Curable Black Adhesive

DELO-DUALBOND GE4949 from DELO Adhesives (Sudbury, MA) is a black adhesive that is light-curable. The black-dyed, multi-purpose, modified acrylate can be used for bonding most metals, plastics and glass. Designed...

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Data Acquisition

Luminescence Materials as Nanoparticle Thermal Sensors

The purpose of this research program was to create and study novel luminescence particles (phosphors} capable of sensing and retaining the time-temperature information to which they were...

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Aerospace

Pulse Analysis Techniques for Radar and Electronic Warfare

Pulsed signals are widespread in radar and other electronic warfare (EW) applications, and they must be accurately measured for manufacturing, design of countermeasures, and threat...

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Aerospace

Flat Cable Technology for Aerospace Applications

There are those who think all cables are created equal. Well, they're not.

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Aerospace

Using Dempster-Shafer Fusion for Personnel Intrusion Detection

The Dempster-Shafer (D-S) mass function is used in effect as a common representation of heterogeneous sensor data. In order to cast each data source in this form, first the raw data...

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Defense

Reconfigurable Radio Tracks Flights Worldwide

When Malaysia Air Flight 370 disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean in 2014, it had flown far beyond radar range. Under a new space-based air tracking system — starting with a reconfigurable...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Using Fisher Information Criteria for Chemical Sensor Selection via Convex Optimization Methods

The design of chemical sensor arrays from the standpoint of chemical sensor selection and error quantification has historically proceeded as an ad hoc process. Frequently, chemical sensors are developed not as general purpose sensing devices, but as...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Development of an Optically Modulated Scatterer Probe for a Near-Field Measurement System

Near-field radiation patterns are useful in diagnosing antenna array defects, measuring far-field antenna patterns where the far-field is prohibitively...

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Aerospace

Electric Rockets and the Future of Satellite Propulsion

Humans have been using rocket propulsion for almost a millennium, starting with Chinese rockets and “fire arrows” in the 13th century and continuing to the modern era's powerful Space...

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Aerospace

Designing Electronic Warfare to Regain Airborne Military Dominance

For decades, military aircraft have relied on electronic warfare (EW) solutions to protect assets and dominate airspace. The ability of the United States to detect and track...

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Aerospace

Certifying Composite Designs for Aerospace and Defense

Wherever you find newer and particularly larger aircraft these days, you're seeing the use of composite materials. The latest commercial planes, as well as innovative defense prototypes,...

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Test & Measurement

Angular Random Walk Estimation of a Time-Domain Switching Micromachined Gyroscope

The primary metrics that prohibit the use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes for navigation-grade inertial navigation units (IMUs) are angle...

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Unmanned Systems

AuVSI™ XPONENTIAL: ALL THINGS UNMANNED

After a very successful trade show and conference in New Orleans last year, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is bringing this year's event, AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2017 to the...

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Aerospace

Exo-Brake Enables Safe Return for Small Spacecraft

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Power

Past as Prelude to the Future

Engineers who have done patent searches know there’s truth in the old saying: Few things are truly new under the sun. First hybrid-electric car? 1899. First autonomous car tests? 1920s. First car with a...

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Transportation

Connectivity Continues Its Advance

Fleet owners have been deploying telematic solutions for some time, but connectivity still is just beginning to move from early adopters to the mass market. Connectivity is providing more owners and...

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Automotive

Tailoring Fuel Injection to Control NOx

Future diesel engine legislation, such as the EU’s Stage V and possible Tier 5 in the U.S. for off-highway, demand further improvements to reduce CO2 while keeping the already-low NOx emissions...

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Power

Refining Ride Quality at Lower Cost

Achieving product differentiation without adding significant cost is on the wish list of all automakers.