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Electric Actuators Can Benefit Heavy-Duty Diesels
As the heavy-duty diesel (HDD) truck world looks to likely future alternative power sources – battery or fuel cell – R&D into improving internal-combustion engine (ICE) efficiency...
Q&A Power
Q&A: Bollinger Still Expanding in Heavy-Duty EVs
Things are very busy right now for heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) startup Bollinger Motors. The company, founded in June 2015, recently moved into significantly larger digs in Oak Park,...
Supplier Eye Unmanned Systems
Understanding the Competitive Dynamic
As summer passes, the industry still is gritting its teeth amidst the restart from months of COVID-driven paralysis. OEMs and suppliers are bracing for a potential second wave, along with the impact of...
News Data Acquisition
Training Data-Hungry AI Algorithms
Training the algorithms of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems for autonomous or highly automated driving requires enormous volumes of data to be captured and processed. The algorithms must be able...
News Energy
GM Nikola Tie-Up Sparks Worldwide Hydrogen Fuel Cell Interest
More than 20 years have passed since hydrogen-fuel-cell electric vehicles (HFCEVs) looked to be the future zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) solution. About that time, this editor...
Articles Software
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 software....
Articles Photonics/Optics
New Diamond Super-Material Enhances Aircraft Survivability
A diamond composite is the ultimate optics and semiconducting super-material.
Articles Aerospace
Army Advances Materials for New Low-Profile Antenna
Army scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind antenna that could change how ground vehicles and airborne systems communicate, transmit, and receive radio frequency communications.
Articles Energy
Thermal Management for Directed Energy Weapons
Advanced thermal management is one of the keys to bringing directed energy weapons online and to allow them to operate at peak performance.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
From DC to Daylight — How Innovations in Microwave Absorbers Shield the Warfighter
While the flashiest military innovations like new fighter jets attract the most attention, advancements in RF/microwave absorbers are crucial enablers of these larger innovations.
Articles AR/AI
Development of a Secure Private Neural Network Capability
Learn how to fully implement a Secure Private Neural Network.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs Solve Spacecraft Design Challenges
Learn about the different FPGA technologies that are available for space applications, and the process for developing the components.
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Special Delivery – by ‘Bot
When road users and pedestrians in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, first view the REV-1 in action, they see a funky little electric three-wheeler quietly navigating the city’s streets on its own. Observers...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Damage & Repair Tracker
The UK's fleet of Merlin Mark 2 helicopters has been testing the tlmNexus' Damage & Repair Tracker (DaRT).
Application Briefs Materials
Rear Fuselage Packer
To date, the rear fuselage packers have been used in the production of over 500 aircraft.
Application Briefs Defense
Mars Rover Electric Motors
A number of maxon's precision DC and BLDC motors were designed into the Perseverance rover.
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Solar-Powered Structures
Pvilion, a solar-powered fabric provider, was recently awarded a contract by the United State Air Force (USAF).
Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Remotely Piloted Aircraft
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems recently flew its SkyGuardian in the skies above Southern California as part of a joint flight demonstration with NASA.
Application Briefs Unmanned Systems
Rocket Engine Technology
This effort will mark the first representative flight of an aerospike engine after many decades of research and abandoned flight efforts.
Application Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
CAM Software
HyperMILL ® CAM software and 5-axis machining is being used to make parts for an advanced NASA satellite mission.
Q&A Regulations/Standards
Architecting GM’s New EV Batteries
By 2023 General Motors promises to have 20 new electric vehicles of all shapes, sizes and market segments on sale. They’re underpinned by the company’s BEV3 flexible dedicated EV architecture,...
News Connectivity
Strategy Reset
Entering a post-COVID phase may seem easy compared to the required actions and commitments the industry faced just a couple of months ago. Collectively, the ecosystem of OEMs, suppliers, dealers and even consumers adjusted...
News Unmanned Systems
Ford, Bosch Demo Automated-Parking Project in Detroit
Ford, Bosch and real estate firm Bedrock are preparing North America’s first demonstration of automated parking in a public garage outfitted with the technology to enable a fleet of...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Autonomy Is Coming to Commercial Vehicles
Despite a pandemic that continues to punish global economic markets, not to mention vehicle manufacturers’ and suppliers’ product plans, many heavy-duty truck makers are not relaxing on efforts...
News Software
Simulation’s Next Generation
When in recent years it became apparent to developers of autonomous vehicles (AVs) that they could never cumulatively acquire the equivalent of billions of miles of on-road validation necessary to create...
News Test & Measurement
2021 Chevrolet Suburban High Country
GM engineers tell me that their latest full-size light truck program, which most recently spawned the 2021 Chevy Suburban and GMC Yukon, encompassed nearly 10,000 engineering and technical staff during...
News Energy
Marelli’s COVID-Killing Cabin Purifier
Marelli North America is offering a solution to the problem of interior air quality in shared-use/autonomous vehicles. The upgraded HVAC setup purifies passenger car cabin air, including the...
Articles AR/AI
New Roles for Lidar in Autonomy’s Lower Levels
Laser-based light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors were only recently thought to be applicable within the realm of fully automated vehicles (AVs). The spinning lidar “flowerpots”...
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