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Technology Leaders: Aerospace
Learn different strategies for addressing outdated avionics, like adding in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new algorithm finds robots the best path across uneven terrain — and the best placement for a robot’s arms and feet.
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Question of the Week: AR/AI
Does A.I. Need to Be Able to ‘Imagine?’
An INSIDER story this month highlighted efforts from USC researchers to train artificial intelligence to imagine the unseen. The artificial-intelligence system uses the attributes that it "knows" to then think up a never-before-seen object.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Could Digital Twins Be Used on ‘Any System?’
An INSIDER story this month highlighted efforts to use sensors to improve the virtual design model known as a digital twin.
Blog: Software
A team of researchers at USC is helping artificial intelligence imagine the unseen.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Epoxies, reverse-engineering software, temperature loggers, and more.
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
A self-driving algorithm guides an autonomous vehicle through a traffic scenario that many of us know well: navigating traffic on a crowded, narrow street.
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Blog: Energy
A reader asks our expert how to contain a "thermal runaway" explosion in a lithium-ion battery.
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Blog: Software
"We could imagine a digital twin of just about any system," says Karen Willcox, director of the Oden Institute.
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INSIDER: Software
Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene. How much more epic would that vacation photo of Niagara Falls be if the water were moving?
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Special Reports: Energy
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Vehicle Electrification - July 2021
GM electrifies the new Corvette...a French nanomaterials company aims for a 5-minute EV recharge...Triumph unveils a radical new electric sportbike design. These are just a few of the innovations you'll read...

Articles: Software
Learn how to reuse more material without recycling.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The open-architecture flight software package provides solutions for onboard orbit determination.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A production-based X-ray solution performs product quality evaluation directly on the manufacturing line.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects for picking and sorting or tool use.
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Blog: Software
The Prediction Model for Flashover, or P-Flash, estimates where flashover explosions could occur.
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Briefs: Software
This software could also be used for indoor navigation assistance for the visually impaired.
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Articles: Automotive
See how simulation software is being used to is automate the test process for vehicle rotors.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The software automatically checks mission operations logs.
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Products: Software
Vision systems, signal generators, AC-DC converters, and more.
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Briefs: Software
The software could help reduce cost and waste for companies using additive manufacturing to mass-produce parts in factories.
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Briefs: AR/AI
The algorithm identified a new compound potentially useful for photonic devices and biologically inspired computers.
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Blog: Transportation
A reader asks: "What are the main challenges in simulating powertrain systems? What do we struggle to model now?"
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Advanced Materials & Coatings - May 2021
New diamond super-material enhances military aircraft survivability…a gold film gives robots “chameleon skin”…shape-shifting nanomaterial offers exciting biotech applications…aerogel-reinforced...

Products: Software
Battery analyzers, uninterruptible power supplies, adhesives, and more.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
This model can be used to design better aircraft without having to wait months for supercomputer calculations.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Cable ties, milling software, snap-action switches, and more.
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Blog: Software
New software being developed at Ohio State University will allow creation of more complex DNA robots, at much faster speeds.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
The more complex the vehicle, the greater the need for comprehensive design solutions.
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