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Cyber Security Goes Upstream
What can hackers do with a car? Just about anything they want. A typical vehicle today is a potential sitting duck, cybersecurity experts say. They point to ghosted schematics of cars showing dozens of...
Articles Transportation
Software Rewrites the Rules
The auto industry’s evolution to a product differentiation based on services and software is prompting a transformation in areas as diverse as the structure of business relationships through cybersecurity for...
Articles Transportation
Defanging Driverless Cars
A pioneering program gives everyday people the chance to ride in an automated vehicle on public roads. Read on to learn more about it.
Articles Design
Switching to Comfort Mode
Knobs and buttons once ruled the roost, but now they must work in tandem with touchscreens, which are ubiquitous in vehicles of all types. As they handle more functions, design teams are coming up with techniques that reduce operator movement by making them easier to reach.
Articles Design
Sitting on the Job
Engineers in commercial seating are exploring a range of materials and concepts to help reduce operator fatigue and discomfort. Many advances come from automotive companies that have the volumes to support much research.
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Intelligence Drives Efficiency, Safety and Uptime of Commercial Vehicles
Several leaders of global commercial-vehicle manufacturers converged in mid-July for a press workshop to discuss the most pressing technological, logistical and...
Technical Innovation Electronics & Computers
Link Readies Semi-Active Cab Suspension for Intro on Select 2020 Models
Link Manufacturing targets heavy-duty vehicles that transition from on- to off-road terrain, in particular, for what it claims will be the industry’s first...
Technical Innovation Power
AxleTech Develops Electric Independent Suspension Concept for Vehicles Up to 58,000-lb GCWR
Intended for a range of vehicle types — full battery electric vehicles, fuel cell range-extender EVs, and internal combustion engine or turbine generator range extenders — the 5000 Series electric independent suspension axle system (eISAS) recently revealed by AxleTech serves as a complete electric powertrain.
Original Equipment Transportation
Komatsu Targets Productivity, Operator Comfort With New WA480-8 Wheel Loader
Komatsu America has added to its wheel loader family with the recent introduction of the new WA480-8, powered by a 299-hp (223-kW), 11.04-L, EPA Tier 4 Final certified, SAA6D125E-7 engine that burns up to 20 percent less fuel than its Tier 3 predecessor.
News Propulsion
Deutz Advances ‘E’ Strategy—prototypes on the Horizon
Deutz previously had indicated that alternative drives will play an increasingly important role in its core segments in the future. Taking the next step in that direction, the...
Products Imaging
New Products
Barometric Pressure Sensor Bosch Sensortec (Reutlingen, Germany) has introduced a new high performance barometric pressure MEMS sensor, the BMP388. The BMP388 delivers outstanding altitude stabilization in drones, where accurate...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Using Thermoplastics in Aerospace Applications
In August 2017, Qantas Airlines laid down the challenge to both Boeing and Airbus to offer an aircraft that can cross one of aviation's “last frontiers.” That “last frontier” was an...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Communicating from Space: The Front End of Multiscale Modeling
As satellites and astronauts travel further out in space, the more communication challenges they face. NASA launched the InSight Mission on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force...
Articles Test & Measurement
Designing a High-Speed Decoy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Drone aircraft and their uses have been evolving quickly, supported by a great deal of ongoing research. One area of increasing interest is the decoy drone, designed to mimic the radar...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Using Turbine Flow Meters for Aerospace Test and Measurement Applications
Turbine flow meters have long been a preferred technology for obtaining precise measurements of fluid flow in the aerospace industry. In addition to their high accuracy,...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
In-Flight Real-Time Avionics Adaptation
Avionics is a very restricting domain for obvious safety reasons. Along with miniaturization comes the idea of integration. More functionality on one spot requires a good management of privacy and...
Articles Communications
Laser-Based System Could Expand Space-to-Ground Communication
A new research project announced recently as a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology and satellite communications provider Xenesis could help open the bottleneck...
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Maritime Unmanned Aircraft System
AeroVironment, Inc.Monrovia, CA626-357-9983www.avinc.com AeroVironment, Inc., a specialist in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for both defense and commercial applications, and ESG Elektroniksystem- und...
Application Briefs Materials
3D Printed Spacecraft Parts
Stratasys Ltd.Eden Prairie, MN952-937-3000www.stratasys.com/aerospace Phoenix Analysis and DesignTechnologies (PADT) Tempe, AZ1-800-293-PADTwww.padtinc.com Stratasys Ltd., a company that specializes in applied...
Application Briefs Propulsion
Diesel Frigate Engines
Fairbanks MorseBeloit, WI1-800-356-6955www.fairbanksmorse.com Fairbanks Morse - an EnPro Industries company - has been awarded a contract to deliver eight FM | Colt-Pielstick diesel engines to power four frigates for the...
Application Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Optical Seeker for Munitions Systems
BAE SystemsNashua, NH603-885-4321www.baesystems.com The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), through the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, has awarded BAE Systems a $13.1 million...
Briefs Data Acquisition
Inter-Laboratory Combat Helmet Blunt Impact Test Method Comparison
As the medical community learns more about brain injury, the importance of blunt impact mitigation becomes more apparent. As such, it is critical to make sure that research labs...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Hydraulic Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite 102mm Tube Section
The objective of this research was to hydraulically pressurize the internal diameter of one 102mm Polymer Matrix Composite (PMC) over-wrapped cylinder up to 25,000 pounds per...
Briefs Energy
Permeation Tests on Polypropylene Fiber Materials
The Toxic Industrial Chemical/Toxic Industrial Material (TIC/TIM) Task Force MFR#1 published in February 2009 focuses on inhalation hazards in an operational environment and provides a list of...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Autonomy, Connectivity to Radically Change Vehicle Design, Ownership
Speakers at a session at the 2018 Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Mich. on how autonomy developments will affect the design and use of personal vehicles...
Original Equipment Unmanned Systems
Volvo Trucks, FedEx Demonstrate 3-Truck Platoon on North Carolina Highway
Volvo Trucks North America and FedEx are working together to study the benefits of platooning, recently driving three tractors pulling double 28-foot trailers down a...
What's Online Transportation
Eaton Creates EMobility Business to Meet Electrified Technology Demand
Eaton has combined products, expertise and global manufacturing capabilities from its Electrical and Vehicle businesses to form a new eMobility business tasked to...
What's Online Connectivity
Caterpillar, Newmont Partner on Underground Vehicle Automation Technology
Caterpillar and Newmont Mining have partnered to validate and improve underground hard rock mining vehicle automation technology. Nevada Cat dealer Cashman Equipment...
What's Online Manned Systems
BAE Systems, Iveco Awarded Contract by U.S. Marines to Deliver 30 ACVs
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded BAE Systems and Iveco Defence Vehicles a $198 million contract to deliver an initial 30 amphibious combat vehicles (ACV), which are...
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