Browse the latest technologies and product developments focused on the challenges facing power management system designers. Power management is integral to electrified and autonomous vehicles, hybrid power, and fuel cell power systems.
Videos: Motion ControlVisualization of NASA’s Air Taxi with Side-by-Side Rotors, for Urban Air...
INSIDER: PropulsionPlane Flies with No Moving Parts
Podcasts: EnergyQ&A: After a Successful Landing, What’s Next for the InSight Mission?
Blog: AutomotiveQ&A: Catching Up with Automotive Cybersecurity Researcher (and Jeep...
INSIDER: TransportationNew fuel cell concept brings biological design to better electricity...
Internet of Things (IoT) applications — whether for city infrastructures, factories, or wearable devices — use large arrays of sensors collecting data for transmission over the Internet to a central,...
Most metals, with the notable exception of gold, tend to oxidize when exposed to air and water. This reaction — which produces rust on iron, tarnish on silver, and verdigris on copper or...
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Norwood, MA, announced the tvLYT™ liquid crystal thermography system that provides a portable solution for temperature measurement of...
Colloids — insoluble particles or molecules anywhere from a billionth to a millionth of a meter across — are so small they can stay suspended indefinitely in a liquid or even in air. Robots about...
Reliability and longevity directly impact the cost of using Q-switched, diode pumped, solid state, ultraviolet lasers in industrial applications. Damage to the intracavity harmonic crystal is...
Hidden PFM-1 anti-personnel landmines are unexploded ordnance (UXO) devices that pose a difficult challenge to conventional...
Aluminum has an incredibly high energy density — double that of gasoline and an order of magnitude greater than...
The Sitrans TH320/420 and TR320/420 WirelessHART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer Protocol) temperature transmitters from Siemens, Erlangen, Germany, are available for a...
Electrical power lines pose a serious crash hazard to helicopters and other air-based vehicles, especially small aerial vehicles such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). This is because power lines are so widespread, hard to see, and strung at roughly the same height above the ground at...
In 1951, the first nuclear reactor in Idaho was built, starting a legacy at what is now Idaho National Laboratory (INL). INL is the site where 52 pioneering nuclear reactors were designed and...
Over the past 60 years, NASA scientists and engineers have developed many advanced technologies and processes. But NASA has also partnered with industry, using commercially available products to complete its missions. Here, some of those companies join NASA in celebrating these collaborative successes.
The built-in multi-window feature released with the new Android operating system allows users to have multiple windows and files open at the same time, similar to a laptop, but this results in...
Energy demands are increasing as consumer, industrial, and data communications markets require greater power distribution.
According to MarketWatch, energy consumption is growing 9% per year globally in the datacom industry.
In a live webinar at 2 pm ET today, experts will review ways to...
In 1977, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, Golden, CO) started as the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), spurred by national concern during the 1973 oil embargo that caused long lines...
The objective of this effort was to design, fabricate, integrate, and fly a nuclear thermal rocket without having to build massive ground test facilities. Furthermore, this nuclear rocket...
Over the past few years, deep learning algorithms have proven to be highly successful in solving complex cognitive tasks such as controlling self-driving cars and language...
The design of the CubeSat required precision pointing of the thrust vector through the spacecraft center of gravity to minimize fuel usage for attitude correction. Because the center of gravity shifts over the course of the mission, a means of adjusting the thrust vector was needed....
A battery pack is only as strong as its weakest cell. As battery packs become larger and more integral to the stable operation of devices and systems, the need to monitor battery dependability and performance...
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a direct-current detector technology to help emergency responders safely detect high voltages, which they have...
Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in...
Resistance welding with direct current (DC) using inverter technology reduces costs by improving quality, reducing maintenance, and increasing productivity. Switching from...
There are applications that require multiple electric machine drives, such as electric or hybrid electric vehicles, where there is a main traction motor and one or more accessory...
Electrical interruptions, or “nuisance trips,” occur when a detector installed behind the wall trips an outlet's electrical circuit when it senses something that could be an arc-fault — a potentially dangerous spark in the electric line. The problem with today's arc-fault detectors is that...
New phase change material was developed that has electrical characteristics that behave differently than those of conventional materials. This new material provides a drastic reduction in power consumption for data recording in nonvolatile random access memory (RAM).
Traditional altitude switch designs for harsh environments are mechanical in nature and operate by means of an inflatable bladder or bellows that mechanically depresses a pushbutton switch. The altitude trip point is set by mechanically adjusting the distance of the switch to the bellows. The mechanical action of...
Solution for Rapid Emissions Testing for Vehicles and Components
ToF & FMCW Automotive LIDARS: Design Challenges
Reducing Development Time for Machine Control Systems
Becoming Compliant with the MDRs: A Real-Life Case Study
Uncertainty Quantification for Simulation Modeling in the Medical...
Blog: Green Design & ManufacturingResearchers Convert Plastic Bottles into Aerogels that Insulate and Absorb
INSIDER: PropulsionPlane Flies with No Moving Parts
Unique Lift System Enables Installation and Servicing of Large Telescope Mirrors
Products: MaterialsProduct of the Month: November 2018
Blog: Test & MeasurementQ&A: After a Successful Landing, What’s Next for the InSight Mission?
Blog: CommunicationsQ&A: Catching Up with Automotive Cybersecurity Researcher (and Jeep Hacker)...
