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Sensata’s Sensors Aid Blind Spot Monitoring for Tractor-Trailers
Sensata Technologies’ booth at this year’s IAA Transportation tradeshow included two of the company’s Precor radar sensors. The PreView STA79 is a heavy-duty vehicle...
Articles Software
Embedded Processing Advancements Enable Smarter, SWAP-Optimized Avionics Displays and Computers
Avionics developers are leveraging a combination of advanced software and scalable system-on-chip (SoC) processing modules to pack more capabilities into smaller form factors for current and next generation aircraft. Read on to learn more.
Articles Manned Systems
How SpaceVPX is Influencing the Design of Next Generation Spacecraft Avionics
SpaceVPX is an embedded computing standard based on bridging the VMEBus International Trade Association (VITA) OpenVPX standards to space applications. OpenVPX is a set of embedded computing system standards that are widely used in safety critical aerospace and defense platforms such as vehicles and weapons.
Articles Aerospace
Certified Machine Learning-Based Avionics
Over the past few decades, aircraft automation has progressively increased. Advances in digital computing during the 1980s eliminated the need for onboard flight engineers. Avionics systems, exemplified by FADEC for engine control and Fly-By-Wire, handle lower-level functions, reducing human error.
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
Adamant: A Soon-to-be Open Source, Mission-Critical Flight Software Framework Written in Ada
By embracing an open-source approach, Adamant opens the doors to wider collaboration, community contributions, and the exchange of best practices in the discipline of flight software. Adamant open-source on GitHub will be released later this year.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Benefits and Challenges of Direct-RF Sampling for Avionic Platforms
Recent advances in the operation of advanced CMOS processes for extremely high-speed and high dynamic range analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) data converters has led to their use in directly sampling microwave and even millimeter wave signals.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Adapting US Army Acquisition to Ensure the Reliability and Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
This report presents several challenges that the U.S. Army will face in the transition to AVs, challenges that are only magnified in the current acquisition environment with limited testing.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Next Generation Airborne Navigation System
Northrop Grumman Corporation has conducted a successful flight test of its advanced airborne navigation solution, Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS) Modernization, known as EGI-M.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Advances in Military Avionics Technologies Create New Challenges for RF Test and Measurement
One of the common features of modern military avionics systems is the adoption of high-frequency and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications to achieve higher data rates and enhanced resistance to interference.
Articles Electronics & Computers
VITA 90: Small Form Factors for UAVs and Other Space Constrained Platforms
VNX+ has been selected by the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) consortium as a SFF standard to be used for C5ISR sensor payloads in space constrained applications, typical in manned and unmanned air vehicles and spacecraft.
News Energy
Chevrolet Unveils 2024 Corvette E-Ray Hybrid
Rather than toasting their sports car’s 70th birthday with polite champagne sips, Chevy yanked the wraps off another edition of the eighth-generation Corvette: the 2024 hybrid E-Ray which...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Using an Open Architecture Approach to Military Avionics
The system was developed to reduce the high number of controlled flight into terrain accidents in the southeast region of Alaska.
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Integrated Flight Deck
Sky Warden will become the first forward-fit deployable combat aircraft to feature Garmin's G3000 tandem integrated flight deck.
Articles Energy
Exploring High-Performance Applications for Distributed Transport Property Thermoelectrics
This new, patented distributed transport property technology describes functionally graded materials with spatially varied transport properties.
Application Briefs Imaging
Integrated Flight Deck System
Garmin’s commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) G3000 open architecture supports integration with a wide range of mission equipment including military sensors, helmet mounted displays, and advanced electrically scanned radar systems.
Articles Motion Control
The Distributed Extreme Environment Drive System (DEEDS)
DEEDS is made up of a highly capable avionic motion control system that is integrated with a modular mechanical drive system.
Articles Propulsion
The Sky is No Longer the Limit Celebrating 75 Years of Air Force Technology
Since its inception, the mission of the United States Air Force has been to fly, fight, and win — delivering airpower anytime, anywhere in defense of our nation.
News Imaging
SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...
Articles Design
The Digital Cockpit of the Future
Software and automation have enabled a step forward in cockpit design, one that is stripped down to the essentials without sacrificing functionality.
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Unmanned Aerial System
With its ability to land and take off from unimproved surfaces, Mojave provides options for forward-basing operations without the need for typical airport runways or infrastructure.
Articles Aerospace
The Future of Managing Mission-Critical Systems
Adhering to functional safety standards is demanding in terms of both time and money.
Application Briefs Software
Multicore RTOS
The DO-178 Deos™ multicore real time operating system (RTOS) has been selected by Honeywell.
Articles Materials
Microtube Technology: A Catalyst for Next-Gen Aerospace Thermal Control
Intergalactic, an aerospace thermal management company, has an inventive approach to heat exchangers.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Technology Helps Connect Avionics Systems
A modular connector system provides smaller, lighter interconnections for denser, more tightly packed avionics systems.
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Using Open-Cavity Plastic Packages in Avionics Applications
See which methods can help semiconductors meet very tight time-to-market windows.
Briefs Aerospace
Electronic Prognostics – A Case Study Using Global Positioning System (GPS)
An electronic system containing high frequency RF components reduces failure rates.
Briefs Aerospace
The Effect of Failing to Recapitalize the B-52H Defensive Avionics System on Future Operations
The Air Force upgraded the B-52 aircraft with an Avionics Midlife Improvement program.
News Unmanned Systems
Addressing Electromagnetic Compatibility in the Context of Aircraft Electrification
In the current context of aircraft electrification, the aerospace industry needs to address increased design complexity and higher levels of integration, which...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Quality Management Experts Provide Guidance on AS9100 Standard, Equipment Calibration
Quality management professionals across the global aerospace and defense community discuss the AS9100 international standard, audits, and equipment...
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