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AV Simulation Testing Faces a Long and Winding Road
Right now, millions of virtual vehicles are driving millions of virtual miles. Their long-term digital mission is to make high-level vehicle automation a reality. Settling on the best...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
New Performance Metrics for Lidar
How do you measure the effectiveness of an intelligent, lidar-based perception system for autonomous vehicles? Conventional evaluation metrics favor frame rate and resolution as the ideal criteria. However, certain experts believe that these criteria are inadequate.
Articles Automotive
Dining on Data
Every year, NVIDIA hosts its GPU Technology Conference, a multi-day news conference/ expo to highlight the advances the tech company has made in the past 12 months.
Articles Automotive
Designs to Dye for: Autonomy’s New-Materials Revolution
Evolving vehicle engineering constantly reshapes vehicle architectures. But along with electrified drive-trains and autonomous capabilities is the need for a mindset shift in materials, opening the way for new sustainable solutions in color, materials and finish (CMF).
Q&A Transportation
Returning Jeep to the Midsize-pickup Market
SAE editorial director Bill Visnic spoke with Elizabeth Krear, Gladiator Model Responsible - Jeep Engineering and Pete Milosavlevski, Chief Engineer, about the program’s development targets and priorities, the importance of the Gladiator’s connection to the iconic Wrangler.
Articles Power
The First Modern EV Was … a Corvair?
The production EV1 by General Motors in the 1990’s gets some credit for being, technology-wise, one of the first viable EVs. The limitation was its heavy lead-acid battery storage and short range....
Articles Unmanned Systems
DoD to Deploy Thousands of Low Cost Autonomous Systems Under Replicator Program
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks outlined the agency’s new “Replicator” initiative. Under the new Replicator initiative, over the next 18 to 24 months, the Defense Department will deploy thousands of low cost autonomous systems across multiple domains.
News Manned Systems
Smart Engineering for Sustainability
Sustainability extends beyond just decarbonization. A term popping up more and more in executive and engineering-focused presentations is “circular economy,” referring to a closed-loop production...
Articles Software
FACE Technical Standard Offers MOSA Lessons for Safety-Critical Software in Any Sector
The FACE Technical Standard shows that the benefits of MOSA can be leveraged in practice. Automated tools, with which regression test can be automated as the same code is leveraged in a variety of tool chains, go a long way toward ensuring that reused modules are fit for purpose in their new environment.
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
Adamant: A Soon-to-be Open Source, Mission-Critical Flight Software Framework Written in Ada
By embracing an open-source approach, Adamant opens the doors to wider collaboration, community contributions, and the exchange of best practices in the discipline of flight software. Adamant open-source on GitHub will be released later this year.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Benefits and Challenges of Direct-RF Sampling for Avionic Platforms
Recent advances in the operation of advanced CMOS processes for extremely high-speed and high dynamic range analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) data converters has led to their use in directly sampling microwave and even millimeter wave signals.
Articles Manned Systems
More Airports Test RF as Counter Measure for UAS in Restricted Airspace
More airports are starting to adopt and test the use of radio frequency (RF) mitigation techniques to counter the operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in violation of civilian airspace rules.
Application Briefs Aerospace
AI Algorithms Fly Valkyrie XQ-58A
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) engineers and researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) agents or algorithms to fly an unmanned XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft on a three-hour sortie during a July 25 demonstration at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Mobile Counter Unmanned Aircraft System
Teledyne FLIR Defense has signed a contract with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, Norway to provide its Cerberus XL mobile counter-unmanned aerial system as part of a total C-UAS solution for Ukraine.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Anthem Flight Deck First Flight
Honeywell Aerospace completed the first flight of its Honeywell Anthem integrated flight deck using a Pilatus PC-12 test aircraft. Although Honeywell Anthem has been in flight test for more than a year and has accumulated more than 120 hours of flight time, this flight was the first managed by the next-generation avionics system.
Application Briefs Communications
5G OSIRIS Testing
Lockheed Martin delivered the final Phase 1 Initial Prototype 5G testbed variant for the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution to the Marine Corps program management team aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA, to begin mobile network experimentation.
Application Briefs Propulsion
Hypersonic Propulsion System Manufacturing
Northrop Grumman has opened a Hypersonics Capability Center to produce advanced propulsion solutions that can power hypersonic missiles beyond Mach 5. The company describes the facility as a “factory of the future” designed for large-scale manufacturing of air-breathing propulsion.
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Next Generation Aerospace Communications
For the first time in 30 years, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland opened the doors to a brand-new mission-focused facility that will support the agency’s Artemis and Advanced Air Mobility missions.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Top Productivity Improvement Tips for Manufacturing Turbine Discs
Aerospace manufacturers have no shortage of challenges when it comes to machining turbine discs, but they don’t have to face those challenges alone. Partnering with a tool provider can lead to benefits that extend far beyond tools.
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Provizio Eyes Safety with Radar, Not LiDAR
"Safety first” is more than a catchphrase. For sensing company Provizio, it’s the only way the transportation industry should introduce autonomous vehicles. In Provizio’s view, using AV...
News Automotive
BEV-Agnostic’ Systems Require Attention
Much has been written about battery-electric propulsion’s impact on the automotive ecosystem. The level of change moves much past an overhaul to a complete re-imagination. While it can be...
News Energy
Addressing Thermal Management for EVs
When General Motors unveiled the 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ, the electric sport utility vehicle with a 24-module Ultium battery pack providing more than 200 kWh of energy that contributes to an...
News Power
Cadillac Counts on 2025 Escalade IQ for EV Sizzle
General Motors said it’s all-in on transitioning its entire passenger-vehicle lineup to EVs and there may be no more critical litmus test of the strategy than the reception for the...
Road Ready Propulsion
Civic Type R Is Honda’s Technology Showcase
Despite humble roots, Honda’s 2023 Civic Type R is a Porsche for the rest of us: A small car destined for greatness, with more entertainment value than a three-day Netflix binge.
News Electronics & Computers
GM Hydrotec Boss Readies Fuel Cells for Commercial Deployment
Call it a “technology-meets-the-moment” place in the transportation sector’s innovation timeline. After decades of concentrated development work, GM’s fuel-cell R&D...
News Power
Perkins Expands Power Generation Powertrain Lineup
Perkins announced an addition to its EU Stage V-compliant powertrain range with the 2806J-E18TAG1 ElectropaK. Perkins’ new engine is an 18-liter unit intended for the electric power...
Technical Innovation Energy
Yanmar Announces Marine Hydrogen Fuel-Cell System
Yanmar announced that its marine subsidiary, Yanmar Holdings, is now offering a marine-grade hydrogen fuel-cell (HFC) propulsion system. According to the company’s announcement of the...
News Manned Systems
Cummins Spools up New Turbo Tech
Cummins Inc. and Holset Turbocharger announced several technical revisions to their Series 850 turbocharger. The Series 850 turbo is intended for customers with high-horsepower engines ranging from 15-L to...
News Manned Systems
Liebherr Deploys Autonomous Mining Truck Fleet
Liebherr’s mining division has announced that it will be conducting onsite validation tests of its autonomous T 264 mining trucks. The validation testing reportedly will take place later...
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