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Transportation

Cat 14M3 'Most Technologically Advanced' Motor Grader for Construction

Caterpillar plans to showcase 40 machines at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2017 in March, one being its new 14M3 motor grader that features a larger engine, increased power to ground,...

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Electronics & Computers

SAE Level 3 "Hand Off" Is Challenging AI Researchers

When Gill Pratt, the CEO of Toyota Research Institute, the carmaker’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Menlo Park, CA, mounted the CES 2017 stage earlier this month, he delivered a...

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Automotive

Simulation Squeezes More Range out of Formula-E Racers

"Range anxiety" is not just affecting electric vehicle drivers on the road—it is also a significant hurdle for Formula E teams on the track. Highly accurate energy consumption...

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Electronics & Computers

CNH Advances Driverless Tech for Tractors

Precision farming and machine automation already play a significant role in agriculture. CNH Industrial’s Innovation Group is focusing on key times of the year when farm work still requires long...

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Defense

Professor Simulates Bomb Blasts to Study How Things Break Apart

How much force does it take to shatter a Humvee, a soldier’s body armor, or a submarine?

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Unmanned Systems

High-Speed, Autonomous Surface Patrol Capability Demonstrated

After a year of internal research and development, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, recently conducted a large, at-sea demonstration...

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Robotics, Automation & Control

Army Researchers Demonstrate 3-D Printed Drones

Soldiers witnessed the innovation of Army researchers recently during flight testing of 3-D printed unmanned aircraft systems that were created on-demand for specific missions.

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Manned Systems

NAIAS 2017: Lightweight Door Module Aims to Trim Vehicle Weight

A new ultralight door architecture nets a 42.5% weight savings compared to a current production door—and that’s enough to put this lightweight concept in an enviable position.

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Transportation

NAIAS 2017: I.D. Buzz Could Be VW's Microbus of the Future

It’s a VW Microbus for future generations, an electric van capable of fully autonomous driving. But at this point, it’s only a concept.

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Software

CES 2017: Car as Close Companion

Let’s face it. For you (and everybody else), it’s all about you, you—and by the way, you. You know, me, the big "I."

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Electronics & Computers

NAIAS 2017: Yanfeng Shows Concept Interior for Autonomous Driving

The driver's experience of being in a vehicle—but not driving—means opportunities for working or relaxing as envisioned in a vehicle cabin concept from the world's...

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Propulsion

NAIAS 2017: Power and More Underscore 2018 Toyota Camry

The best-selling car in America for the past 15 years breaks its mold with a new platform and powertrains. Things have changed with Toyota’s 8th-generation flagship sedan and the...

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Product Briefs
Electronics & Computers

150V Power MOSFETs

Targeting high-efficiency designs and applications, Infineon Technologies’ (Munich, Germany) OptiMOS 5 150V portfolio product family further expands the OptiMOS 5 generation of power MOSFETs. The new product family is...

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Propulsion

Electric Drive Module

GKN Driveline’s (Auburn Hills, MI) complete electric-drive system for plug-in hybrid vehicles will help automakers more easily incorporate eDrive systems into their vehicle lines and eliminates the integration of...

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Propulsion

NAIAS 2017: The 2018 Lexus LS Gets Twin-Turbo V6, 10-Speed and Shiatsu

The flagship sedan that inaugurated the Lexus brand in 1990 ups the power and luxury quotient for its fifth-generation iteration with an all-new turbocharged V6, a...

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Automotive

NAIAS 2017: Stinger Gives Kia a Fast, Nimble Sedan

Kia’s racy GT concept sports sedan shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show becomes production reality with the 2018 Stinger.

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Software

Waymo’s End Game: Beat Conti, Delphi and Valeo in Self-Driving Tech?

What does Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving car project and now a standalone company, want to be when it grows up?

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Articles
RF & Microwave Electronics

CES 2017: Schaeffler Surprises CES with 'Bio-Hybrid' Minicar for Urban Use

By 2050, urban populations worldwide will have risen by 2.5 billion, according to the United Nations. But “infrastructure expansion is not keeping pace with...

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Software

Combating Motion Sickness in Autonomous-Driving Simulators

Motion sickness has become a very real issue for engineers developing and testing autonomous vehicle technologies. Automotive simulators can reach such high levels of realism that...

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Road Ready
Propulsion

2018 Ford F-150 Diesel Aims to Beat 30 Mpg

With two key 30-mpg enablers for F-150 already in production—an aluminum body structure and 10-speed transmission—Ford Truck Engineering now brings the final piece of the technology puzzle: a...

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Power

F-150 and Mustang Hybrids Part of Ford's Global Electrified Vehicles Plan

Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce hybrid versions of its iconic F-150 and Mustang in the U.S. by 2020, the company announced at a press conference at its Flat Rock,...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

CES 2017: Honda Partners with VocalZoom to Advance Speech-Recognition Technology

Speech recognition as a distraction-mitigation solution for automotive features has emerged as the classic love-hate situation for new technology....

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Automotive

Glowing Aerodynamic Add-Ons Could Boost Big-Rig Fuel Economy by 7-10%

“Headlight white” and “stoplight red,” the characteristic colors of the highway at night, could soon get a companion: “plasma purple”—that is, if a new...

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Product Briefs
Manned Systems

Operator Chair System

The Merritt Synergy system from J.R. Merritt Controls, Inc. (Stratford, CT) is engineered for continuous use in a variety of machine and industrial cabin applications from cab-operated cranes and mining dredges to drills...

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Software

Fully Embedded CFD

Mentor Graphics Corp. (Wilsonville, OR) offers the only fully embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution for Solid Edge software, a mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) solution developed by Siemens’ product...

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Aerospace

Computer Model More Accurately Predicts Flight Delays

Researchers at Binghamton University have devised a new computer model that can more accurately predict delays faster than anything currently in use. The multilevel input layer...

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Aerospace

Cockpit Display Shows Precise Locations of Sonic Booms

NASA pilots flying supersonic aircraft now have a display that tells them exactly where sonic booms are hitting the ground. The display provided NASA research pilots the ability to...

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Aerospace

Elastomers and Thermoplastics Portfolio

Qultimax proprietary elastomers and thermoplastics portfolio developed by Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (Minneapolis, MN) is suitable for application in custom-molded parts greater than 3 in (76 mm) in...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

CES 2017: Faraday Future Shows Its First Vehicle—the FF 91

After teasing the media and consumers with a racecar concept at the 2016 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, and then with a series of detailed close-up images and...

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