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Achieving Performance Advantages in Unmanned Systems
Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS) are reaching new levels of functionality and performance, and it’s not just for air vehicles either. Ground and underwater UVS programs are all taking...
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COTS Embedded Systems and Link Budgets
The days of proprietary embedded computing systems in military systems are numbered. Proprietary systems, with the attendant vendor lock-in, tend to be platform specific, increasing the development and...
Articles Aerospace
Fiber Optic Multi-Sensing Platforms
Eventually, technology advances to the point where solutions that have been “good enough” for decades are no longer “good enough” for the innovations of today. The philosophy of “good enough” is...
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RECAT Wake Turbulence Recategorization
Aviation safety is a fundamental concern for all stakeholders. The traveling public demands the highest safety standards, but also wants convenience and reliability at a low price with minimal...
Articles Aerospace
A New Concept for Improving the Performance of Electrically Small Antennas
Using advances in the areas of multi-mode, closely coupled miniaturized radiators and artificially engineered materials, ultra-broadband, highly efficient, electrically...
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Microwave Radiometer for Advanced Nanosatellite Control Systems
Microwave radiometers measure temperature, water vapor, and cloud ice in the atmosphere, since oxygen and water vapor naturally emit signals in the microwave portion of the...
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I.D. Concept Heralds VW’s Electric Bolt Fighter for 2020
“Our future is in efficient and ‘connected,’” said Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess as he introduced his company’s battery-electric product future at the 2016 Paris Motor...
Global Vehicles Transportation
Aero-Slick Land Rover Discovery Sheds 1,058 Lb, Gains Features
JaguarLandRover engineers continue to achieve significant vehicle mass reductions, this time with the new generation Land Rover Discovery. Shifting to aluminum construction for...
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Automotive Influence on Off-Highway Cabs
Describing new features and technologies for off-highway vehicles as “automotive-style” sometimes comes off as marketing hype—words meant to tap into views that passenger vehicles are more...
Technical Innovation Propulsion
Eaton Demonstrates Waste Heat Recovery, Variable Valve Actuation for HD Diesels
Eaton demonstrated a range of waste heat recovery (WHR) technologies for heavy-duty diesel engines at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover, Germany, as...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
A How-To for Car Hackers
The new vehicle you’ve just spent 40 months engineering, testing and validating, that’s soon to be in customer hands, is now a big, fat target. The hackers want in.
Original Equipment Green Design & Manufacturing
Tech-Heavy Iveco Z Truck Concept Spawns 29 Patents
Designed in collaboration by CNH Industrial’s Design Center and Innovation department, the Iveco Z Truck concept that debuted at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover, Germany, is...
News Unmanned Systems
U.S. DoT Chooses SAE J3016 for Vehicle-Autonomy Policy Guidance
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation's policy guidance released Sept. 20 on the testing and deployment of automated vehicles validates SAE International's J3016 standard as the global...
News Electronics & Computers
SAE Convergence 2016: Automakers, Suppliers Firm That Autonomous Driving Not Decades Away
For those who believe it unlikely autonomously-piloted vehicles will be coming in the foreseeable future, high-level technology executives from...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
First-Of-Its Kind High-Volume Production Cell Set to Start Producing Competitive CNG Tanks for Auto Industry
Composite machine manufacturer Mikrosam delivered a fully automated filament winding line for CNG tanks to automotive supplier...
Global Vehicles Propulsion
Volvo S90: Niche for Now, But…
It’s no secret the reconstituted Volvo, since 2010 owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely, is doing interesting and innovative things—one of the most intriguing, maybe, being that it’s survived and in some...
Global Vehicles Propulsion
With 2017 Fusion Sport, Ford Pushes Further Toward Audi
Nobody’s ever had much trouble liking the slinky look and agreeable driving dynamics of Ford’s Fusion midsize sedan since the second-generation model was launched for the 2013...
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The Evolving Tire-Development Paradigm
Engineers working in today’s vehicle-development environment are faced with a unique challenge in relation to prototype vehicles: the cost of constructing prototypes and assemblies limits their...
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Estimation of Excavator Manipulator Position in Real Time
Automation of hydraulic excavators is valuable due to their potential applications in hazardous environments or remote locations, such as radioactive-contaminated areas. Manipulator...
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Jaguar Land Rover Constructs Slovakian Manufacturing Plant to Support 'A Truly Global Business'
Construction has started on a new Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing facility in Nitra, Slovakia. According to the company, the 300,000 m²...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Bosch Inaugurates New Technical Center in Pittsburgh
Increasing its presence in a region some are beginning to refer to a “Silicon Valley – East,” Germany-based auto supplier Bosch this week opened an expanded technical center in...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in U.S. Diesel-Emissions Coverup
A veteran Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty in federal court to a criminal charge for his involvement in the German automaker’s ongoing diesel-emissions scandal,...
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Creating a ‘Green’ Value Stream with LPPD
James Morgan, Ph.D, is a senior advisor for lean product and process development at the Lean Enterprise Institute. A former global director of Body Exterior, Safety, and Stamping Engineering at...
News Transportation
Citroën to Unveil CXperience Concept at 2016 Paris Show
Having shrugged off the inhibiting effects of conventional design that took it into the category of the mundane for many years, PSA Citroën’s latest demonstration of its original...
Original Equipment Transportation
Auxiliary Hydraulics Highlight Productivity Focus for Deere Reduced-Tail-Swing Excavators
John Deere recently updated the 135G and 245G LC reduced-tail-swing excavators, which are designed to maneuver in tight spots for projects such as...
News Automotive
2017 FiatChrysler: More Dodge Muscle, Fewer Fiat Models
At a mid-summer media program to reveal its 2017 model lineup, nobody from FiatChrysler Automobiles said anything about some fizzy rumors speculating the company might have engineered...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Full Electric Drivetrain for HD Vehicles the Result of Supplier Alliance
Engineers at Colorado-based UQM Technologies have collaborated the past several months with their counterparts at Eaton’s Vehicle Group and Pi Innovo, both located...
News Design
Scania Debuts Heavy-Truck Safety First: Rollover Side-Curtain Airbags
Scania’s new truck generation can be equipped with rollover side-curtain airbags integrated into the headliner molding above the doors. The manufacturer claims the...
News Automotive
Optimizing Waste Heat Recovery for Long-Haul Trucks
A waste heat recovery (WHR) system for a long-haul truck application was examined via simulation, test bench, and public road vehicle testing as part of a joint project between CNH...
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