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New HPC4EI Project to Create 'Digital Twin' Models for Aerospace Manufacturing
A partnership involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aimed at developing “digital twins” for producing aerospace components is one of six new...

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CASE Struggles to Fulfil Expectations
The saying ‘Two steps forward, one step back’ describes the overall progress of CASE — Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electrified vehicles and infrastructures. While electrification and...

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Sharp-Shooting Farm Robot
SprayBox can target individual weeds and crops at a 20-per-second rate and then spray them at a millimeter’s accuracy.

Quiz Communications
How Much Do You Know About GPS and its History?
Do you know the history of GPS? Take this quiz to find out.

Briefs Software
Engineers Build Reconfigurable Artificial Intelligence Chip
The researchers plan to apply the design to edge computing devices.

Briefs Software
Incorporating Computer Vision and Uncertainty into AI for Robotic Prosthetics
The software can be integrated with existing hardware to aid people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons.

Briefs Power
Enhancing Fault Isolation and Detection for Electric Powertrains of UAVs
NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project is developing innovative data solutions to assure safe, rapid, and repeatable access to a transformed National Airspace System.

Briefs Data Acquisition
Faster Computation for Deep-Learning Applications
A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage.

INSIDER Propulsion
Hummingbird Flight Could Provide Insights for Biomimicry in Aerial Vehicles
Hummingbirds occupy a unique place in nature: They fly like insects but have the musculoskeletal system of birds. According to Bo Cheng, Associate Professor in...

On-Demand Webinars Software
How to Analyze Spacecraft Thermal Performance with COMSOL®
Being able to predict and optimize designs and processes for spacecraft and satellites is critical. New advances in single-physics and fully coupled multiphysics modeling...

On-Demand Webinars Manufacturing & Prototyping
Design and Simulation of Sustainable, High-Performance Thermal Systems
OEMs today need to navigate multiple regulatory, commercial, technical, and environmental challenges while developing their thermal systems. These challenges are...

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A Darker Side of the Chip-Shortage Story
The effects of the global semiconductor shortage on new-vehicle availability, and industry profits, are well known. But an even more significant effect of the “chip” shortage has been going...

INSIDER Photonics/Optics
AFTC Gains New Test Capability
As weapon system designers continue to innovate for the defense of the nation, the Air Force Test Center must advance the test capabilities available to develop and prove the superiority of those systems...

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Winter 2022 Resource Guide
In our summer edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.

Briefs Communications
Statistical Audibility Prediction Algorithm
Predicting the extent that one sound is heard over another is difficult, yet could help engineers to better design for sound management.
Briefs Software
Meta Monitoring System
MMS was developed as an add-on to NASA Ames-patented Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), which estimates deviation from normal system operations.

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
How Virtual, Cloud-Based Technologies Are Powering the Next Industrial Revolution
Companies in many industries are completely revamping the way in which their manufacturing arms are designing, building, producing, and servicing their goods.

Briefs Design
Nanomagnets Can Perform AI-Like Processing
The new method could slash the energy cost of AI.

Q&A Software
Gearing Dana for the EV Future
As Dana Inc. transitions further into electrified systems, it pays to have a Mechatronics engineer leading the company’s technology charge. Giulio Ornella, Dana’s VP of Global Engineering, has been...

INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Air Force Gets Strategic Mission System Capability Utilizing OpenVPX Standards
Collins Aerospace has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to develop a modern Very Low Frequency (VLF) receiver that will help modernize its strategic mission...

Application Briefs Software
Digital Manufacturing Solution
The U.S. Navy is looking to tackle supply-line problems by aligning the skill sets of a trio of outside expert organizations to develop an end-to-end additive manufacturing (AM) system that could be utilized across the entire Department of Defense (DoD).

News Test & Measurement
Machine Learning Software Monolith Cuts Development Time for BMW’s Test Engineers
BMW faced a problem. Because leg injuries can be common in vehicle crashes, the effect of all manner of deformation must be measured in order to...

On-Demand Webinars Software
Machine Learning for Narrowing the Simulation-Test Gap
Establishing how well a numerical simulation represents reality is critical for making simulation results more trustworthy for decision makers. This 60-minute Webinar will focus...

INSIDER Medical
Quick Test Kit Determines Immunity to COVID-19, Variants
A team of scientists from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...

Products Electronics & Computers
Product of the Month
Automotive engineers utilize Adams software to build their virtual vehicle prototypes and Adams Real Time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) capabilities to bridge the gap with physical tests.

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Going the Last Mile
Pizza is a subject that puts a smile on most faces but for Matteo Del Sorbo, the delight extends far beyond the actual pie.

Articles Unmanned Systems
Hopeful but Closer Scrutiny for SAE Level 4 Automation
As the auto industry and its suppliers, along with technology developers and startups, recalibrate for what appears to be a new and more pragmatic phase of automated-driving...

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