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Articles: Motion Control
Students trained in classic mechanical engineering are taught to construct a system using conventional mechanical components to convert rotary into linear motion. Converting rotary to linear motion can be...
Articles: Motion Control
Today’s pumps, valves, and flow meters are being designed with greater accuracy and flexibility to handle a wide range of fluids, chemicals, and other materials. Demands for more...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
The California Air Resources Board will require new cars sold in California to have windows that reflect or absorb heat-producing rays from the sun. Starting in 2012, windows...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $32 million in Recovery Act funding, which is designed to support the deployment of hydropower turbines and control technologies to...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and solid state lighting (SSL) products that incorporate LEDs pose many measurement challenges compared with other lighting elements, such as traditional tungsten...
Articles: Energy
Renewable energy will be the world’s fastest-growing source of electricity generation over the next two decades, although it will still make up a relatively minor portion of...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
For 25 years, the VME architecture defined COTS systems that met the demand for increases in computing and connectivity. Successive generations of new processors provided more and more compute cycles, while VME bandwidth evolved in a...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
More and more devices in our modern world come with a multitude and variety of embedded systems. An obvious example of this trend is today’s vehicles, which have dozens of electronic control units (ECUs) that control...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The growth of data centers and the concept of infrastructure as a service is leading to significant focus on cloud computing architectures. Pundits have proclaimed cloud computing as the...
Articles: Research Lab
The fourth servicing mission (SM-4) for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) offered an impressive and unprecedented set of advanced technologies that may yield the most...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Film cameras were traditionally manufactured by discrete assembly, which means each component was fabricated as an individual item, tested if necessary, and then assembled into the final working product. The advent...
Articles: Energy
In the near future, a crumbling parking lot in downtown Dallas, Texas will be the location of the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. Re:Vision Dallas is the...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Many of us believe that if we don’t have ground loops we don’t need to isolate analog I/O signals. Yet there are five very real – and very different – reasons to isolate every one of your analog...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA) and Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) have won the 2008 NASA Government and Commercial Invention of the Year Awards, respectively. The Ames invention is a...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) researchers who developed a new way to power robotic underwater vehicles believe a spin-off technology could help convert ocean energy into...
Articles: Imaging
High-performance computing (HPC) has transformed science and engineering over the past 20 years, but some fields have yet to fully realize its benefits due to software limitations. This article...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Machine vision can quickly and accurately determine the location of parts so they can be inspected, measured, or manipulated by a robot. An example is using machine vision to guide a robot unpacking one-gallon...
Articles: Motion Control
Whether performing an intricate surgery, positioning a patient, or taking a tissue sample, today’s biomedical devices are taking advantage of advanced motion control devices to ensure...
Articles: Motion Control
Next-generation flywheels are made possible by advances in material science in rotor technology, as well as the application of magnetic bearings running in a vacuum environment. While...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
While today’s multi-discipline mechatronic systems significantly outperform legacy systems, they are also much more complex by nature, requiring close cooperation between multiple design disciplines...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The increasing emphasis on green technologies has focused more attention on low power design. Microcontroller vendors are responding by increasing their offerings of ultra low power devices that...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Capacitive sensors can be used to measure many different physical parameters that are important when monitoring the health of patients. In particular, the technical advances made by sensor...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
General purpose flexible circuit boards are those with electronic components that can be bent to fit in tight spaces. Most are just one or two layers thick and are meant for "flex to install"...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
More than 50 percent of Americans diagnosed with diabetes are at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a retinal disease that can lead to blindness. The condition is a result of diabetes...
Articles: Medical
This year’s seventh annual NASA Tech Briefs “Create the Future Design Contest,” presented by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., recognized innovation in product design in six...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Universal Proprietary Water Purifying/ Conditioning Multimedia
Jim Jablonsky J&M Associates Hatfield, PAThis inexpensive and easily operated filter system removes heavy metals, arsenic, mercury, bad...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Winner of an HP Workstation
Small-Area Thin-Film Heat Flux Sensor
Mahmoud AssaadThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Akron, OH
This sensor is being used in tires of all types and sizes, and has also...
Articles: Medical
Kristina Irsch Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MDAmblyopia, commonly known as “lazy eye,” is the leading cause of vision loss in childhood, caused by...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Electronic Fog, Frost, and Ice Prevention Technology
Don Skomsky Integrity Engineering, Inc. West Chester, PA
This electronic device prevents condensation, frost, and ice from forming on any surface. It...
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