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Lidar & Radar Solutions For ADAS/Autonomous Vehicles - March 2023
Lidar and radar technologies are critical to the safe navigation of self-driving or semi-autonomous cars and trucks. Read about the latest advances in this compendium of...
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AI Image Analysis, Li-Fi and Quantum Processor Among 2023 PRISM Awards Winners
Photonics West 2023 featured the 15th annual gathering of the Prism Awards, a ceremony hosted by SPIE that honors and recognizes industrial innovation in...
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US Army Approves Common Infrared Countermeasure Systems for Early Fielding
Northrop Grumman’s Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) system has achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) with the U.S. Army. With IOC, the U.S. Army...
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The Future of Automated Guided Vehicles for Aerospace and Defense
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the first automated guided vehicle, and AGVs have been moving things around on humans’ behalf ever since.
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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.
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Laser Attack Blinds Autonomous Vehicles, Deleting Pedestrians and Confusing Cars
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
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Blocking Electromagnetic Radiation with the Flip of a Switch
Researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering have developed a thin film device, fabricated by spray coating, that can block electromagnetic radiation with the...
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Northrop Grumman Developing Next Generation F-35 Radar Upgrade
Northrop Grumman is developing AN/APG-85, an advanced Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for the F-35 Lightning II. The radar will serve as an upgrade to the...
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What Exactly is LiDAR?
Take this LiDAR quiz to see how much you know.
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A Drone to Protect Bats from Wind Turbines
A study has perhaps solved the wind-turbine issue of causing harm to bats.
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Lumotive’s New LCM Underpins Next-Gen Lidar
“The future happened yesterday” is an appropriate description of the rapid pace of development in automated-driving technology. The expression may be most accurate in sensor tech where,...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
A Laser That Could Reshape the Landscape of Integrated Photonics
This technology will pave the way for new applications of integrated semiconductor lasers in LiDAR.
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AV Life After Argo AI
The recent shuttering of Argo AI, one of the autonomous-vehicle industry’s leading tech companies, by Ford and Volkswagen might come as a surprise to commuters in San Francisco and in Phoenix, Arizona. Those who...
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Solving Military Satellite, Radar and 5G Communications Challenges with GaN-on-SiC MMIC Power Amplifiers
Systems need to meet higher gain targets but not if it comes with any increases in cost and complexity, or size and weight.
Briefs Imaging
Concept Development for Advanced Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can globally monitor dynamic processes on the Earth’s Surface. The last SAR to be developed and deployed by NASA was in the year 2000.
Application Briefs Defense
Through-Wall Imaging System
Camero-Tech has launched the Xaver™ 1000, a new generation of the Camero Xaver™ product line.
Briefs Photonics/Optics
A Laser-Focused Approach to LiDAR
Traditional time-of-flight LiDAR has many drawbacks that make it difficult to use in many 3D vision applications.
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Advanced LiDAR — On the Road to SAE Level 3 Partially Automated Driving
For automated driving, LiDAR combines the best features of two of the other sensing technologies: radar and cameras.
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Conference to Focus on Counter-Drone Technology
In 2021, SAE Media Group, which publishes this newsletter, launched a new high-level technical conference called Counter UAS Technology devoted to, as the name implies, examining current...
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
More Reliable Doppler LiDAR for Autonomous Navigation
The LiDAR sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) technique to determine the distance to the target and the velocity between the sensor and target.
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Pulsed 2-Micron Laser Transmitter
The design produces a compact, efficient, long-lifetime laser transmitter as needed for use in space, while also having potential applications as an airborne or ground-based wind measurement tool.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Making Measurements with a Fine-Toothed Comb
Enter the frequency comb, a Nobel Prize-winning device and the result of decades of research from NIST and others. The comb generates a billion pulses of light per second, which bounce back and forth inside an optical cavity.
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Vehicle-Mounted Tactical Radars
Blighter will be supplying its B422 180-degree ground surveillance e-scanning radar in a vehicle-mounted configuration to be fitted to a six-wheeled UGV.
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Joby Aviation Announces Acoustic Data from NASA Testing
AFWERX Agility Prime partner Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, recently completed developmental...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Sensing Enters a New Era
More than 1.3 million people die on the world’s roadways each year and another 50 million are injured. While roadway safety has improved over time, all countries face formidable challenges in reducing the...
Special Reports RF & Microwave Electronics
Adas/Connected Car - June 2022
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazines, see how advances in edge computing, lidar and camera technology, cabin design, and more...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Boeing 737 Gets Enhanced Flight Vision System
Collins Aerospace is beginning installation of its new Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) for Boeing 737 aircraft. Texel Air, operating out of Bahrain International Airport, will be among...
INSIDER Aerospace
GA-ASI Introduces New Eagle Eye Radar
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a company that designs multi-mode radar technology for unmanned aircraft Systems, recently introduced the Eagle Eye radar. The new MMR is installed and has...
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