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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
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Briefs: Aerospace
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed a self-contained wheel unit that combines a wheel and an electric motor.
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Briefs: Motion Control
The technology can be used in commercial motors, robotic systems, and hybrid and electric vehicles.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The ESA has commissioned its industry partners to design a new docking system called the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM).
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Briefs: Motion Control
The algorithm speeds up the planning process that robots use to adjust their grip on objects.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Actuators, Encoders, Gripping Tools, and More
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Application Briefs: Motion Control
Salty air the Dutch city of Harlingen causes exposed metal parts to corrode.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
With the rise in electrification and design complexity, aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) need to look for new methodologies to mitigate compliance risk.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Low-Bandwidth Radar Technology Provides Improved Detection of Objects
Radar technologies were originally designed to identify and track airborne military targets. Today, they're more often used to detect motor vehicles, weather formations, and geological terrain. Until now, scientists believed that radar accuracy and resolution are related to the...
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The reader uses a frequency multiplexer to boost its ability to accurately locate a greater number of RFID tags.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Potassium-Oxygen Battery Stores Clean Energy
Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery. The battery could make renewable energy sources like solar and wind more viable options for the power grid...
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The biometric tool uses modified wireless earbuds to authenticate smartphone users
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Current laser interferometry pressure pulse detection techniques use the shock-induced change in index of refraction to track detonation and/or shock fronts in a single fiber optic by reflecting laser light...
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Technology Leaders: Software
As lithium-ion battery production doubles, more viable energy storage solutions are needed.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are driven...
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Briefs: Automotive
This lightweight material brings strength and durability to complex shapes.
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Facility Focus: Aerospace
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This approach removes the limitation on peak power densities that exists for fiber lasers.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This hands-on, educational tool highlights the properties of SMA wire.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This retractable de-orbit device facilitates targeted re-entry, attitude and orbital control, and collision avoidance.
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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Life support research for astronauts enabled a solution to one aspect of climate change.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This technology provides simultaneous ohmic contacts and the process to make them.
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