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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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High-Flow Lift Pump
Eric Foy
Central Point, OR
Apump is often needed, particularly in the act of firefighting, to raise water to fill a...
Articles: Medical
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IDEA Enhanced Pulse Oximetry
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Digital Window Distributed Imaging Camera
Ellen Cargill, Peter Jones, and Dennis Purcell
Boston, MA
Scallop Imaging’s seven-megapixel...
Articles: Transportation
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Regenerative Braking Bike Front Wheel
David Swain, Frank Maurer, Jason Moore, and Albert Shih
Ann Arbor, MI
With the push of a button and without...
Articles: Lighting
Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting is a mainstream technology now. LED flashlights, traffic signals, and vehicle lights are commonplace, and the push is on to replace incandescent and fluorescent lamps in...
Articles: Lighting
All LEDs, OLEDs, and AMOLEDs (light-emitting diodes, organic LEDs, and active-matrix OLED, respectively) are miniaturized solid-state technologies. Some are moving into...
Articles: Lighting
Nowhere is the motivation to convert all light sources to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) more evident than at the local home improvement store. Even a cursory glance at the LED bulbs on the MR16...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Most people working with lasers today are trying to do something with the light beam, either as the raw beam or, more commonly, modified with optics. Whether it is printing a label on a part, welding a precision joint or...
Articles: Software
You might think a wind turbine would have more in common with a plane’s propeller than an aircraft wing, but wind blades actually...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
In dozens of industries and in millions of applications around the world, dangerous chemicals are transferred from their original shipping containers...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Historically, processors from the PowerPC® family, now known as Power Architecture® processors, have been the dominant choice for implementing Digital...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Military systems represent extreme environments for COTS electronic equipment. Many systems involve multiple enclosures, often from different suppliers. Equipment layout, the...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
VPX systems offer tremendous performance for the Mil/Aero market, including naval, airborne, and ground-based computing systems. The architecture provides an unprecedented combination...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Before the advent of OpenVPX, designers of embedded systems took advantage of the extreme connectivity offered by VPX (VITA 46), but were faced with a virtually unlimited number of possible implementations. Specific...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Over the past 20 years, additive manufacturing technology has migrated from use in rapid prototyping to a full-fledged manufacturing solution, which is referred to as “direct digital...
Articles: Imaging
As warfare moves into a new era, military strategists tool up with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones to provide the visual surveillance the new combat...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The OpenVPX Industry Working Group, a 28-company team founded by Mercury Computer Systems, collaborated with a common goal and accelerated the completion of a system architecture specification for open...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
VPX is like a three act play. Act one was the launching of a new high density platform for critical embedded computing applications. Leveraging the wildly popular VMEbus in 3U and 6U Eurocard formats, VPX added the capability...
Articles: Imaging
The NASA World Wind Java computer program developed at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, has won NASA’s 2009 Software of the Year award. Software engineers at Ames created the NASA World Wind...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
The basic function of a photovoltaic cell is to convert input — sunlight energy expressed in irradiance (W/m2) — into output — useable electrical power — with as little loss as possible. To quantify the...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Multi-paction effects can impact microwave components in high-power satellite communications (sat-com) systems. The nonlinear break-down-voltage phenomenon occurs in high-vacuum environments above...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robots are capable of very precise motion, but must be guided with precision in order to fulfill their potential. Consider the task of guiding a robotic surgeon’s arm to suture a wound or...
Articles: Energy
In just the last few years, innovation in alternative-energy technologies have gained significant footholds in product development lifecycles and are rapidly changing our individual...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
Optimized Power Devices Enable Energy Efficient Solar Inverters and Micro-Converters
As the demand for greener appliances and consumer products soars across the globe, and energy savings becomes a global phenomenon (and necessity) in residential and commercial environments, solar and wind power technologies have begun to proliferate in cities and...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The ability to make real-time decisions based on pressure, temperature, or flow measurements while a process is running can provide significant advantages in a measurement and control...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The telecommunications industry’s continuous strive for higher performance has spurred innovations in processor architectures. The general trend has been to go parallel; adding more cores to a single...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Due to the growth of video on demand (VoD), IPTV media content, and embedded database applications, AdvancedTCA (ATCA)-based storage capacity requirements continue to increase...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Safety-critical development standards, such as DO-1781, have been very successful in guiding the production of reliable software. These standards assist developers in applying good software...
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Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
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Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
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