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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Weight is among the most critical factors behind component choice when it comes to aerospace applications. Being among the bulkiest of components, connectors and cables need to embrace the latest scientific advances in order to reduce weight and enhance performance, fuel efficiency, and overall system reliability. This article outlines the recent advances enabling lighter connectors for aircraft, satellites, and drones.
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Briefs: Energy
All-in-One, High-Power Microwave System
A device was developed that uses composite-based nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs) for a complete high-power microwave system, eliminating the need for multiple auxiliary systems. Read on to learn more.
Briefs: Energy
Whether for large electric vehicle systems or small electronic devices, SABERS can potentially set new benchmarks in energy density and power, all while offering the utmost in safety and reliability. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Information Technology
A Centralized Data Management Platform
Many organizations have data stored in differing formats and various locations throughout the organization and often outside the organization. It is often difficult to access such data. Developed at NASA Ames Research Center is a novel data management platform for managing interconnected data and its derivatives. Read on to learn more about it.
INSIDER: Energy
Earlier this year, Factorial Energy CEO Siyu Huang told SAE Media her company was “very committed” to bringing solid-state battery technology to the market sooner than basically anyone...
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Application Briefs: Information Technology
Moving forward, the lines between PLCs, edge devices, and cloud systems will continue to blur. The most successful manufacturers will be those who can seamlessly integrate these technologies, creating a unified system that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Materials
Electrodynamic dust shields (EDSs) are a key method to actively clean surfaces by running high voltages (but low currents) through electrodes on the surface. The forces generated by the voltage efficiently remove built-up, electrically charged dust particles. Innovators have developed a new transparent EDS for removing dust from space and lunar solar cells among other transparent surfaces.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed and successfully flight tested a high-performance computing platform, known as the Descent and Landing Computer (DLC), to suit the demands of safe, autonomous, extraterrestrial spacecraft landings for robotic and human exploration missions.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
To help improve the safety and security of AVs, researchers have devised a novel algorithm designed to mimic an attacking device. The algorithm lets researchers identify areas for improvement in autonomous vehicle security.
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Application Briefs: Power
The next generation of sensors needs to maintain efficiency and cost-effectiveness while ensuring fast, accurate, and reliable communication.
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Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Ultimately, the success of the 5G Open Radio Access Network (5G O-RAN) deployments hinges on a multi-pronged approach involving a blend of collaboration, standardization, and advanced automated testing tools.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Ultimately, zonal architectures require a fundamentally reorganized software structure that allows the OEM to independently, quickly, easily, and modularly adapt the control of the entire vehicle while minimizing the complexity in the wiring harness and the number of control devices.
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Briefs: Communications
Testing Smart Surfaces to Improve Wireless Communication
Researchers at UBC Okanagan are looking at ways to improve cell phone connectivity and localization abilities by examining “smart” surfaces that can bounce signals from a tower to customers to improve the link.
Articles: Energy
As the need for sophisticated functionality increases, high-performance computers and zone controllers could be the heart of next-generation vehicle electrical platforms.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
MIT researchers have developed a quantum computing architecture that aims to enable extensible, high-fidelity communication between superconducting quantum processors.
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Briefs: Connectivity
A new paper on wireless connectivity from researchers at the lab of Dinesh Bharadia, an affiliate of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute (QI), introduces a new technique for increasing access to the 5G-and-beyond millimeter wave (mmWave) network.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
As the tolerances for photonics systems become more demanding, controlling the grinding of optical components must also become more precise.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Computing using light can potentially provide lower latency and reduced power consumption, benefiting from the parallelism of optical systems.
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Briefs: Manned Systems
This novel flightpath control system exploits the dihedral effect to control the bank angle of the vehicle by modulating sideslip.
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Articles: Connectivity
What the typical consumer needs is a low-cost, high-speed communications mechanism that has few data restrictions and is unmetered.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Scientists have now developed three-dimensional component architectures based on novel, printable thermoelectric materials.
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Briefs: Energy
The work could lead to improvements in the energy density of lithium batteries that power electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Communications
This device could pave the way to higher-bandwidth wireless communications.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape.
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Briefs: Energy
Two-dimensional MXene has become popular in the energy world because of its fast energy storage capability. But unstable voltage output limits applications.
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Articles: Energy
Wireless sensors are critical for the IIoT, but they need long-term, reliable battery power.
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Briefs: Energy
The work could lead to improvements in the energy density of lithium batteries that power electric vehicles.
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Application Briefs: AR/AI
We are currently moving into the next automation age. It is a world where your personal devices will help you track your health in real time, while conveniently connecting with your doctor....
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
This schedulable, predictable, high-performance data transfer service is designed for largescale scientific computing facilities.
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