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This is your resource for developments in smart sensor systems and data acquisition. Browse technical briefs, articles, and white papers on advanced applications in transducer technologies, detector systems, data acquisition, and sensor-related technologies.

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Question of the Week: Transportation
Do Software Advancements Make You Feel Safe in an Autonomous Vehicle?

Our lead story today features self-driving car software that prevents accidents by understanding and anticipating safe traffic behaviors.

INSIDER: Aerospace

For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...

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Blog: Data Acquisition
New software from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) wants to predict all traffic possibilities, so that self-driving vehicles will never get into accidents.
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Question of the Week: Transportation
Can Courtesy Be Programmed Into Self-Driving Cars?

During a recent webcast, a Tech Briefs reader raised an interesting question about self-driving cars:

Blog: AR/AI
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
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Podcasts: Aerospace

Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...

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Products: Test & Measurement
Foam gasket tapes, data analytics software, ceramic tape, and more.
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Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Stennis now is testing RS-25 rocket engines for the Space Launch System (SLS) that will carry humans back to the Moon.
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Articles: Data Acquisition
Tech Briefs posed questions to machine learning/AI industry execs to get their opinions on platform selection, data interpretation, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
With accelerated time from design to production, specialized foil sensor arrays will be expanding to many new areas.
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Application Briefs: Software
Predictive maintenance is poised to become much more widely adopted, and that will help to boost productivity in a time when we really need it.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Smart sensors for hazardous areas monitor essential assets, such as motors and pumps.
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Articles: Energy
Choosing the right battery will save trouble and expense in the long run.
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These sensors will improve autonomous technologies in the industrial environment, like AGVs or forklifts.
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Products: Imaging
Safety-critical MEMS, absolute pressure sensors, thermal imaging cameras, and more.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Learn how to obtain large signals from hyperspectral imagers.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The COVID crisis is propelling the camera industry toward disruptive transformation.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
High-temp infrared emitter, single-frequency SWIR lasers, hazard testing systems, and more.
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Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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Test & Measurement - September 2020

See how the latest test tools and methodologies are enabling new applications in aerospace, electronics, robotics, healthcare, and other key industries. This compendium of recent articles is presented by...

Special Reports: Aerospace
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Aerospace & Defense - September 2020

In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about the technology driving the Mars 2020 rover, how NASA will use GPS to...

Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology provides rapid results, improving hospital workflow and patient care.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This neurostimulator could deliver fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The instrument has uses in photography where the goal is to image a dim object near a bright one.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The “E-dermis” will enable amputees to perceive through prosthetic fingertips.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The sensor could provide a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency from 1 to 100 GHz.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Laser light induces ultrasonic vibrations in a sample that can be used to image cells, blood vessels, and tissues.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An A/C alternative, AI that sharpens blurry images, and a NASA energy harvester.
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Webcasts

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On-Demand Webinars: Defense

From Data to Decision: How AI Enhances Warfighter Readiness

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Upcoming Webinars: Aerospace

April Battery & Electrification Summit

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Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Tech Update: 3D Printing for Transportation in 2024

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Upcoming Webinars: Materials

Unleashing Epoxy's Potential: Ensuring Hermetic Sealing in Modern...

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Upcoming Webinars: Test & Measurement

Building an Automotive EMC Test Plan

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Upcoming Webinars: Aerospace

The Moon and Beyond from a Thermal Perspective

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