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Sensors & Test

Access our comprehensive library of technical briefs on sensors and test, from engineering experts at NASA and government, university, and commercial laboratories.

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Briefs: Automotive
The system could one day replace LiDAR and cameras in automated manufacturing, biomedical imaging, and autonomous driving.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biobots based on muscle cells can swim at unprecedented velocities.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
The machines fold themselves within 100 milliseconds and can flatten and refold thousands of times.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The design could contribute to various applications in the robotics field such as smart prosthetics and human-robot interaction.
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Briefs: Automotive
One of the final hurdles to hydrogen power is securing a safe method for detecting hydrogen leaks.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Color changes of gold nanoparticles under the skin reveal concentration changes of substances in the body.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at KU Leuven have succeeded for the first time in measuring brain waves directly via a cochlear implant.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Recent advances could make it feasible to deploy networks of methane sensors to detect this greenhouse gas at large facilities.
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Briefs: Transportation
Researchers have developed a millimeter-thick accelerometer.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include remote sensing, laser spectroscopy, and gas analysis.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
These tiny detectors could record characteristics of light such as color, polarity, and angle.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Complete integrated circuits with more than 1,000 organic electrochemical transistors can be screen-printed.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The software could help reduce cost and waste for companies using additive manufacturing to mass-produce parts in factories.
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Briefs: Transportation
Movements of individual particles of light are reconstructed to see through clouds, fog, and other obstructions.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Thanks to its flexibility and adhesion, the biodegradable display can be worn directly on the hand.
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Briefs: Materials
The device uses load frames to test bonded structures in aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy storage applications.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The software automatically checks mission operations logs.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mobile radar devices could replace standard stethoscopes.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smartphone, combined with nanoscale porous silicon, enables inexpensive, simple, home diagnostics.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Artificial intelligence is used to decode X-ray images faster, which could aid innovations in medicine, materials, and energy.
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Briefs: Imaging
The promise of personalized medicine involves a simple device that keeps each person apprised of their level of health, identifies even trace amounts of undesirable biomarkers in...
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Nearly 100% of all-carbon-based transistors are reclaimed while retaining future functionality of the materials.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The device, powered by ultrasound waves, could help doctors monitor the health of transplanted organs and provide early warning of potential transplant failure.
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Briefs: Communications
This software could also be used for indoor navigation assistance for the visually impaired.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A flexible, free-standing THz sensor array images blind ends of irregularly shaped objects.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Innovators have developed an RFID-based system for sensing the angular position of rotating systems. The RFID-Based Rotary Position Sensor can be used as a position/orientation sensor or implemented in a...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center developed designs for two micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) motion and position sensors: a single-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope....
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Briefs: Wearables
The wearable prototype can stream, in real time, an identifying signature based on the electrical activity of a person's heart.
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