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Briefs: Motion Control
Accomplishing motion control with digitally commanded electric motors is a responsive, precise, and energy-efficient approach suitable for a wide range of applications.
Briefs: Wearables
This system can track the motion of the entire body with a small sensory network.
Briefs: Design
Scientists have developed a novel concept for a lunar navigation system based on the reverse-ephemeris technique.
Briefs: Manned Systems
This novel flightpath control system exploits the dihedral effect to control the bank angle of the vehicle by modulating sideslip.
Articles: Materials
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INSIDER: Motion Control
While conventional aircraft rely on protruding fins to enable steering, a tailless design makes the body as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in dangerous areas where...
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
It was believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, need to be large to produce a lot of thrust. Now, a new study from the...
INSIDER: Medical
First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. These hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to...
Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
How much do you know about medical robots, a market expected to reach $22.89 billion by 2030? Find out with this quiz.
Blog: Power
By placing a metamaterial pattern on the surface of an object, the researchers were able to use sound to steer it in a certain direction without physically touching it.
Special Reports: Unmanned Systems
Unmanned Systems - February 2023
Unmanned helicopters take off...AI-powered machines tackle dangerous missions...autonomous robots become curious...rogue drones meet their match. Read about these and other advances in air, ground, and...Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
Briefs: Design
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
Blog: Research Lab
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
Blog: Motion Control
A study has perhaps solved the wind-turbine issue of causing harm to bats.
Technology & Society: Design
SprayBox can target individual weeds and crops at a 20-per-second rate and then spray them at a millimeter’s accuracy.
Quiz: Connectivity
The chances are very high that you're familiar with GPS. However, do you know how it came to be? Its trials and tribulations? Take this quiz to find out.
5 Ws: Motion Control
A team of researchers at Cornell Engineering has developed a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged — and then heal itself on the spot.
Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
Space Technology - January 2023
Read about robot construction workers on the moon, the first commercial space station, what's next for the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech...
Briefs: Software
The software can be integrated with existing hardware to aid people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A prototype version could be demonstrated on a large cargo lunar lander.
Briefs: Aerospace
The tiny device accurately measures acceleration in smaller navigation systems and other devices.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The model allows robots to ask clarifying questions to soldiers.
Briefs: Motion Control
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
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