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Through-Shaft Sensor
Piher Sensors & Controls’ (Brighton, MI) hollow-shaft PST-360 contactless Hall-effect magnetic sensor was designed as a reliable solution for maintaining accurate pedal position (brake, accelerator or throttle) in...
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1000-V SiC MOSFET
The 1000-V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET from Wolfspeed (Durham, NC) enables a reduction in overall system cost, while improving system efficiency and decreasing system size. The company claims the new MOSFET, specially...
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Data Acquisition and Control System
DynPro2 from Taylor Dynamometer (Milwaukee, WI) is a data acquisition and control system that provides one common platform for engine, vehicle and industrial component testing. The system can automate the...
Product Briefs Test & Measurement
Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulator
With the new SCALEXIO LabBox, dSPACE (Wixom, MI) offers a compact high-performance system for hardware-in-the-loop tests. The LabBox fits on every desk and therefore can be used for early function tests right at...
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Continental Demonstrates New Sensing Technologies for SAE Level 4 Capability
A braking and cruise-control system that can move a vehicle up and down steep off-road hills. Vehicles that can detect at-risk road users not in the driver’s...
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1.7-Megapixel Automotive Image Sensor
The OV10650 from OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) is a wide-format image sensor that captures high-quality color images and video in a 2:1 aspect ratio. Built on OmniVision’s 4.2-µm...
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Pour Your Next EV Battery?
While electric propulsion appears destined to supplant the internal combustion engine at some point in the future, the laws of economics and market forces will likely keep ICEs around for decades. Batteries for...
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2016 Los Angeles Auto Show: Mazda’s All-New CX-5 to Include Diesel Engine for North America
Mazda made no secret it would unveil an all-new CX-5 compact crossover—now one of its best-selling models in the U.S.—at the 2016 Los Angeles...
Road Ready Automotive
New Ford Fiesta Claims B-Car Tech Leadership
It may look similar to the current model but Ford describes its next generation Fiesta as the “world’s most technologically advanced small car.”
Product Briefs Aerospace
High-Performance Thermoplastic Elastomer
Sarlink ML-2355B from Teknor Apex Co. (Pawtucket, RI) is a new styrene block copolymer thermoplastic elastomer (TPE-S) for automotive interior parts such as cable ducts and grommets. The compound...
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New EEAs for the Connected, Autonomous Future
The connected, electrified and eventually driverless vehicle revolution has a less publicized but equally important back story — the development of next-generation electrical and electronic...
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Bridging the Power Gap with 48 Volts
The hybrid Lincoln MKZ I'm driving feels like it's floating on air as we hustle down I-75, the combustion engine having been shut off by a clever bit of electrification. On this long, flat stretch of...
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HMI Development: More Features, less System Complexity
Human machine interfaces are changing rapidly as radio head units handle more functions and connect to diverse systems inside and outside the vehicle. HMI systems are being...
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Connectivity Advances Dominate at CES 2017
If there’s any doubt that connectivity is the next wave for advanced features and functions, it should dissipate after CES 2017. A multitude of advances in over the air updates and security will...
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Delphi Showcasing Next-Gen Autonomous System at CES 2017
Delphi will use CES 2017 to demonstrate an advanced new automated-driving technology platform the company plans to make available to automakers by 2019 as a complete system to enable...
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The Impact of Shifting to the ‘Softer’ Side
Welcome to Supplier Eye, a new monthly column that explores the changes facing our industry and analyze the impact—of new technologies, regulations, business dynamics and consumer...
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NHTSA’s V2V Rollout Plan Gets Support, Questions
After years of promoting vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration appears poised to mandate the safety technology. Many in the...
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NASA BLI Propulsor May Leapfrog Current High-Efficiency Designs
Fuel efficiency—and the economic and ecological benefits associated with it—continues to be the white rabbit of the global aviation industry. While engine builders look...
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Glassy Breakthrough for Battery Performance
Steve Martin, an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering at Iowa State University and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has researched battery materials...
INSIDER Defense
Laser-Based Navigation Sensor Could be Standard for Planetary Landing Missions
A laser-guided navigation sensor that could help future rovers make safe, precise landings on Mars or destinations beyond was developed at NASA’s Langley...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers 3D-Print Operational Drone with Embedded Electronics
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 3D-printed a ready-to-fly drone with embedded electronics using aerospace-grade material. The electronics were...
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Lucid Motors Unveils Air Electric Luxury Car
Lucid Motors, the latest electric-vehicle startup to tilt at Tesla, unveiled the production version of its first model, the Air luxury sedan that boasts a twin-motor driveline and high-density...
Editorial Unmanned Systems
Vital Transformation
Almost lost in discussions about autonomous-driving technology are the “other” road users and how they fit into the driverless, robotic-vehicle future.
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Taming of the Drones
While unmanned systems are already transforming the way that modern warfighting is conducted, the commercial sector is still at the starting gate. That said, personal UAV ownership is expanding at an exponential rate,...
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Volvo CE Demos Prototype Autonomous Machines
Automation is one of three main technology areas—along with connectivity and alternative drivelines and fuels—that Volvo Construction Equipment is devoting significant R&D resources to...
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Dana Rexroth Tests Latest-Generation Hydromechanical Variable Transmission
Dana Rexroth Transmission Systems announced in late November that it began pre-production testing of its R3 hydromechanical variable transmission (HVT) at several...
INSIDER Defense
New Grasses Neutralize Toxic Pollution From Bombs and Munitions
On military live fire training ranges, troops practice firing artillery shells, drop bombs on old tanks or derelict buildings and test the capacity of new weapons. But those...
INSIDER Aerospace
Researchers Develop High-Performance, Clean Solid Rocket Propellant
A Purdue-related startup is developing a new rocket fuel formulation that could make rockets used in military and space applications travel further, carry greater payloads,...
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