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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Unmanned Systems - March 2020
The latest advances in aerial, ground, and underwater unmanned systems are covered in this special report, a compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology.Technology Leaders: Imaging
Vision-based convolutional neural network system detects phone usage, eating, and drinking.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
Briefs: Imaging
This system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cellphone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand as if they were really there.
Briefs: Imaging
Equipment-free textile detectors could be used in public health, workplace safety, military, and rescue applications.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
SPIE Photonics West 2020 returns to The Moscone Center in San Francisco, February 1 through February 6
Products: Test & Measurement
Processors, imaging sensors, dimensioning systems, and more.
Briefs: Automotive
The non-destructive coating has applications in structural health monitoring, aerospace, automotive, and military/defense.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.
Blog: Imaging
If a satellite breaks in orbit, there's not much that can be done. A professor envisions a new idea for refueling and repair.
Facility Focus: Aerospace
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
Products: Photonics/Optics
LIDAR Systems, Smart Cameras, Optical Communications, and more.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
Briefs: Medical
Camera Enables Surgeons to More Easily Identify Cancerous Tissue
Many surgeons rely on sight and touch to find cancerous tissue during surgery. Large hospitals or cancer treatment centers may also use experimental near-infrared fluorescent agents that bind to tumors so surgeons can see them on specialized displays. These machines are costly, making...
Articles: AR/AI
The Foldable Drone: a Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly
Davide Falanga, Kevin Kleber, Stefano Mintchev, Dario Floreano, and Davide...
Briefs: Imaging
Thermal cameras like forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors are actively deployed on aerial and ground vehicles, in watch towers, and at check points for surveillance purposes. More recently,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Learn about the Draper Multi-Environment Navigator.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than a single cell without a lens or any optical, electrical, or...
Briefs: Imaging
High quality camera performance on mobile devices has proven to be one of the features that most end-users aim for. The importance of optical image quality improvement and the trend to have thinner and thinner...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new imaging method extracts a color image from a single exposure of light scattered through a mostly opaque material.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
UCLA engineers have made major improvements on their design of an optical neural network — a device inspired by how the human brain works — that can identify objects or process...
Briefs: AR/AI
Most of us know optical lenses as curved, transparent pieces of plastic or glass, designed to focus light for microscopes, spectacles, cameras, and more. For the most part, a lens’...
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new drone “folds” itself into configurations that suit a given environment.
Articles: Defense
Program managers and engineers in the military markets need to know about the emergence of new display technologies in the consumer sector.
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