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Simplifying Power Design with Modular Architectures
The design of complex, high-power DC-to-DC converter architectures poses some challenges to engineers developing aerospace and military-grade power systems.
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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...
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Toyota Reinvesting in Collaborative Safety Research
To adapt to a swiftly changing mobility ecosystem, Toyota announced on April 27 a new five-year, $30-million investment in its Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Collaborative Safety Research...
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Developing Design Tools for Outer Space Structures
Achieving affordable space exploration will require lightweight structures for vehicles, solar arrays and antennas. Lightweight materials also will be used for components of structures...
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SAE WCX 2022: OEM Learnings from Level 2 ADAS
Drivers behave differently when a driver assist technology is engaged. They tend to drive faster, look away from the road more often and for longer periods of time, and they engage in...
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Panasonic Augments Driver Safety with New HUD Tech
At CES 2022 Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America unveiled AR HUD 2.0 (Augmented Reality Head-Up Display 2.0), the first system to include a new, patented eye-tracking system...
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The Future of Automated Vehicle Cabins
Although there are yet no privately owned, fully automated vehicles on the road, automakers and suppliers are working to develop vehicle interior technologies, materials and designs they think will...
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Lexus Goes All-Touch for New Infotainment System
When Lexus unveiled its Remote Touch infotainment interface at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, the original iPhone had been out a little over a year, and Apple’s second-generation...
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GM Announces Door-To-Door Ultra Cruise ADAS
GM has announced the next generation of its hands-free Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system (ADAS), upping the label to “Ultra Cruise.” GM claims the Ultra Cruise system, expected to...
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Making UX Easy on the Eyes
Faurecia IRYStec combined physiology and image processing to create uniquely personalized high-fidelity screen displays, as pioneered by Mercedes’ MBUX.
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Time to End the Madness of EV Sales Subsidies
Electric vehicles have proven that they can sell themselves.
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Industry Invited to Participate in AeroTech Aerospace and Defense Technical Program
SAE International is inviting global participation in its AeroTech® aerospace and defense technology conference and exhibition, which is for the first...
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Next-Gen HMI Crucial to Increasing ADAS Efficacy
Next-generation HMI (human-machine interface) technology platforms allow off-highway OEMs and system designers to support productivity tools like computer vision – including object...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Amending the Automated-Driving ‘Constitution’
In May, SAE International and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) jointly released a significant update to SAE’s J3016 Recommended Practice: Taxonomy and...
Articles Design
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...
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Alliance Platform Elevates 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander
Ten years is an eternity in terms of automotive product cycles, especially in a segment as hot and crowded as C/D sport utility. For Mitsubishi Motors North America (MMNA), waiting...
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Volvo Cars Mixes Virtual with Real-World Testing
Volvo Cars engineers who do a lot of test-track driving are trading their typical street-clothes attire for some serious “tech style.” They’re getting behind the wheel wearing a...
News Connectivity
New EU Patent System Could Unify and Simplify Process
To engineers who are developing autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies, the legal landscape around innovation can look increasingly complex. And the patent path may seem daunting. But...
News Software
Does EV Material Testing Need to Get Physical?
As the CEO of the ZwickRoell Group, Dr. Jan Stefan Roell oversees a multi-industry, materials-testing business. The family-owned company’s history of invention includes the first...
News Design
Inside Story: Allied Motion
Many medical devices — from robotic surgery to autonomous delivery robots in hospitals, to dialysis equipment — use motion control products to operate. Allied Motion’s long and successful experience as a...
News Automotive
NASA Crash Landing Is a Complete Success
NASA just crash landed a Fokker F28 Mark 1000 Fellowship short-range, narrow-body airliner. The event, an experiment to gather crash-safety data, occurred at NASA Langley Research Center’s...
Articles Design
Aerospace Work Platforms — More than Meets the Eye
For maintenance personnel in the aerospace industry to do their jobs effectively, they need to be able to get physically close to the equipment they are working on. This statement sounds...
News Photonics/Optics
Airbus’ Connected Cabin Concept Is Materializing with First Round of Partnerships
Airbus SE is shifting its Connected Experience cabin concept into the first stages of reality with cooperative buy-in from gategroup Holding AG, Stelia...
News Data Acquisition
When It Comes to Fifth-Generation Assets, Air Force Values Virtual Training over Live Flying
Newer, more capable fifth-generation aircraft platforms and systems are outgrowing even the largest U.S. Air Force training ranges – and the...
News Manned Systems
McLaren Applied Technologies’ All-Electric, AI-Infused Vision of Formula 1 Racing
McLaren Applied Technologies of Woking, United Kingdom unveiled their “MCLExtreme” (MCLE) vision for the future of grand prix racing. While McLaren...
News Manned Systems
German Air Traffic Controllers Shift to Completely Remote Operations at Saarbrücken Airport
Yesterday, a Luxair regional airliner arriving at Saarbrücken Airport was the first aircraft remotely cleared for landing from the Deutsche...
News Aerospace
A-10C Pilots Will Get 3D-Audio to Increase Situational Awareness
The U.S. Air Force will equip between 150 and 200 Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II combat aircraft with 3D-audio systems developed by Terma A/S, a Lystrup,...
Technology Report Design
Nexteer Readies Steering Technologies for Autonomous and Mixed-Mode Driving
Steering-technology engineers continue to consider different solutions to the issue of whether a driver will be prepared to instantly take control from an...
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Unleashing AI in Aviation Will Accelerate Move to Zero-Pilot Cargo and Passenger Aircraft
Software has transformed every operational asset of everything in life; artificial intelligence (AI) will have as big an impact on life, predicts...
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