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WCX 2023: Can You Drive like SAE J3300
A valid driver’s license from any country put attendees in the driver’s seat at SAE WCX 2023, allowing them to test their driving skills using SAE J3300, the driving skills standard used to...

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Spelling Ford with an ‘E’
One year ago, Ford Motor Co. kicked off a new era in its long history when it bifurcated into two strategically interdependent auto businesses. Ford Blue, the “traditional” business, is responsible for...

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Honda to Reveal Autonomous Work Vehicle at CONEXPO
Honda will be revealing the prototype of its third-generation electric Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) at CONEXPO 2023 in Las Vegas. Accord to the company’s press release, Honda aims to...

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Yanmar, ELEO Announce Electrification Strategy for Off-Highway Sector
Yanmar announced its strategy for electrification of future off-road powertrain offerings at the Bauma 2022 conference in late October. During a presentation, Yanmar...

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How to Specify and Select RF Filters
Selecting a filter for an A&D application requires an understanding of available RF filter responses, physical formats, and technologies, with a good idea of necessary functional goals, such as separating channels or rejecting interference.

Articles Test & Measurement
EVs Drive NVH Material Innovations
The definition of a ‘quiet’ vehicle, as determined by the occupants’ ears, is changing radically, as electric motors replace the internal-combustion engine. And electric vehicles are changing the...

Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
What is Pulse Shaping?
Pulse shaping, as it is done today, is an effort to fix fidelity issues caused by the transmitting amplifier and is accomplished by a combination of imperfect methods, most external to the amplifier. This article...

Briefs Defense
Evaluation of Future Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Capabilities in an Automated Computer-Aided Wargame
In fiscal year 2016, the Senate Armed Services Committee ordered the Navy to increase its fleet to 355 ships. However, the lack of...

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Electrified Propulsion for Aerospace: Where to Start?
In the eVTOL marketplace there is no common ground yet regarding the number of propulsion modules.

Articles Unmanned Systems
How to Test a Cognitive EW System
Cognition in EW systems is an important element in achieving dominance of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Articles Design
Airing on the Side of Innovation
Is there a proven formula for creating a top-notch engineering organization and benchmark product from scratch? Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson shared his approach at the company’s Newark, Calif,...

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What System Designers Should Know About MOSA Standards
To rapidly respond to new threats, the DoD has a mandate to adopt a Modular Open Systems Approach.

Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Migrating Advanced Signal Processing Technology to Rugged SFF Platforms
By enabling distributed system architectures, SFF systems and subsystems solve many of the toughest problems facing embedded system designers.

News Unmanned Systems
Making the Strategic Move into AV Testing
Traditional powertrain testing can be full of challenges. But it doesn’t compare to the often-bizarre edge cases that confront those testing automated-vehicle systems. Just ask Tom Tasky. He...

Articles Aerospace
Open System Software for Critical Applications
Make sure that you have a fully integrated, automated approach to test and requirements traceability.

Technology Report Unmanned Systems
WCX 2021: Systems Thinking as Powerful as Propulsion Systems
There’s a revolution brewing as engineers develop electric and autonomous vehicles that require layers and layers of complicated systems to come together. “This is the...

Briefs Test & Measurement
Low-Impact Space Weather Sensors and the U.S. National Security Spacecraft
Low-impact sensors close a gap in the U.S. space weather observation network.

Application Briefs Imaging
Weapon Fire Control System
Smart Shooter increases the accuracy and lethality of small arms.

Articles Test & Measurement
The Role of Prototype/Test Systems in Next-Generation C5ISR Development
For SOSA/HOST systems, there are chassis platforms for development that provide relatively cost-effective, versatile, and powerful solutions.

News AR/AI
Getting to the ‘Core’ of AV Thermal Management
The universal understanding of autonomous vehicle (AV) safety is one of the most critical keys to broad adoption of self-driving technology. For AVs, what is “safe enough?” This...

Articles Software
Redesigning the Systems Engineering Process to Speed Development of E-Propulsion Aircraft
OEMs should consider replacing traditional, silo-based approaches to systems engineering with a model-based strategy.

Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bits and Bytes Boost Hydraulic System Capabilities
Off-highway vehicles are typically admired for their power, but the driving force behind a growing number of performance improvements are the invisible bits and bytes of control...

Briefs Aerospace
Systems Engineering Approach to Develop Guidance, Navigation and Control Algorithms for Unmanned Ground Vehicle
This research explores the development of a UGV capable of operating autonomously in a densely cluttered environment such as the tropical jungles or plantation estates commonly found in Asia.

Q&A Software
Electrifying Opportunities at IAV
Mike Kenhard joined IAV Automotive Engineering as president in 2019, bringing a diverse career in systems engineering and “all sides of engines and engine controls” from his previous experience at...

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Aptiv Centralizing Computing Power to Speed Autonomous Vehicle Development
The software-intensive, electrified and increasingly automated vehicle will define the 2020s. Its rise is driving both the industry-wide re-thinking of...

News Design
Silicon Valley Summit Refines Autonomous Safety Thinking
Until recently, leading autonomous vehicle (AV) technologists posited that ultra-safe, go-anywhere robotaxis would soon be on the road. But questions about those timelines –and...

News Motion Control
New Proving-Ground Tools Needed to Manage AV Testing
According to Dr. Richard Simpson, principal systems engineer at test systems’ supplier AB Dynamics, a universal command and control system for test-track operators is vital to...

Application Briefs Defense
EO/IR Maritime Payload
CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd., recently demonstrated its iSea-25HD system.

Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Autonomous Multi-Sensor Maritime Awareness System
BIRD Aerosystems officially launched the OSCAR - Ocean Surveillance Control and Reconnaissance technology.

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