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Revolutionizing Electronic Warfare: Unleashing the Power of High-Performance Software-Defined Radios
In the ever-evolving landscape of electronic warfare (EW), the imperative for technological prowess has never been more pronounced. At the vanguard of this evolution stands a technological marvel — high-performance software defined radios (SDRs).
Articles Aerospace
Certified Machine Learning-Based Avionics
Over the past few decades, aircraft automation has progressively increased. Advances in digital computing during the 1980s eliminated the need for onboard flight engineers. Avionics systems, exemplified by FADEC for engine control and Fly-By-Wire, handle lower-level functions, reducing human error.
Articles Energy
Hyliion Shifts Focus from Propulsion to Power Generation
Hyliion acquired the Karno generator technology from GE Additive in August 2022 to employ as a fuel-agnostic power system on its Hypertruck platform, which was revealed as a...
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Commercial-Truck EV Fleets Slow to Grow
Environmental regulations and corporate sustainability goals are driving commercial fleets to adopt electric trucks in all classes. But the still-evolving charging infrastructure is stymying their...
Articles Transportation
Big Data, Big Challenges
Connectivity lets automakers and service providers collect tons of valuable data from vehicles and their operators, but it also brings the challenge of finding ways to glean useful information from huge...
Articles Transportation
Taking Aim at the Drowsy-driver Threat
Semi-autonomous technology designed to significantly reduce the 7000 annual fatalities in the U.S. attributed to driver drowsiness has been developed by Hyundai Mobis North America. A...
Articles Transportation
Spark of Genius
In 2016, after six frustrating years of R&D invested in an ultra-lean-burn, high-compression gasoline engine, Mazda’s managing executive officer, Mitsuo Hitomi, 63, had this brainstorm: Adding spark ignition might...
Articles Transportation
Mercedes Adopts Harman UX for A-Class
Mercedes-Benz’s ‘User Experience’ digital cockpit, previewed at the 2018 CES, is entering production in the new 2018 A-Class (W177). The cockpit is the first in a new generation of...
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Not dead yet: The resilient ICE looks to 2050
For the sake of discussion, let’s say that 25% of the world’s light-vehicle production in 2030 will be battery-electrics. Such a prediction may seem quite optimistic, compared with most...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Tuning-Up AI’s ‘Understanding’ to Make Safer ADAS, AVs
In December 2023, Kognic, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based developer of a software platform to analyze and optimize the massively complex datasets behind ADAS and...
Articles Transportation
Engineering the Motivo Way
“When we hire new engineers, I’m usually the last guy to talk with the candidate during the interview process," said Praveen Penmetsa, CEO and founder of Motivo Engineering. “And that’s when I to try...
Articles Transportation
Miracle Wires
With data-transmission rates ranging from 10Mbps to 10Gbps being standardized or already in place, Ethernet technology has a promising future for automotive applications. To reduce the level of cabling, a technology known...
Articles Transportation
SOI ‘Sauce’ for Next-gen Microelectronics
Automotive applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next big drivers for semiconductor growth through 2025. Vehicles are increasingly relying on greater intelligence,...
Articles AR/AI
Nvidia’s ‘Kitchen Sink’ for AV Testing
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang laid out the problem during his keynote address at the company’s 2018 GTC conference in San Jose in late March. Autonomous driving technology is “probably the...
Articles Automotive
Cabin Fever
The transition to autonomous driving will transform many aspect of vehicles, not the least being interiors. Cabins will evolve significantly to give drivers and passengers more freedom and varied entertainment options.
Articles Transportation
Rethinking Architectures: From Chips to the Cloud
Creating a powerful, robust electronic controls architecture is among the most important tasks faced by those chosen to create autonomous-vehicle systems. Risk-averse developers who are...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Seeing Through Fog
As the mobility industry advances with ADAS and autonomous vehicle (AV) operation, the safety challenges of applications involving nighttime warning systems, pedestrian detection and driver situational awareness will...
Articles Transportation
When Autonomy Underperforms: the Evolving Liability Model
When humans drive a vehicle, safety liability issues are well-established and depend largely on whether a state has adopted no-fault liability or whether a product was at the...
Articles Transportation
Detecting Pedestrians
Automakers and legislators are focusing on pedestrians, aiming to reduce injuries that are rising as more people worldwide migrate to cities. Camera systems have surpassed passive technologies to become the key...
Articles Test & Measurement
A Secret Weapon for Roof-crush Testing
Evaluating how school buses and other commercial vehicles perform in crash-test scenarios is regular practice at the Center for Advanced Product Evaluation (CAPE) in Westfield, Indiana. The center,...
Articles Materials
Innovation More Than Skin Deep
With the Steel-vs.-Aluminum battle raging unabated across the global vehicle-development domains, plastics/composites material and manufacturing suppliers are delivering equally impressive innovations in...
Articles Transportation
Balancing the RUMBLE and ROAR
Multiphysics simulation is part of the development toolset at Mahindra Two Wheelers, as the Indian motorcycle and scooter maker expands into global markets with larger bikes.
Articles Transportation
Steeling for Reduced Mass and Higher Strength
OEMs are now willing to pay over three times the cost of conventional carbon steel, experts say, for new material solutions that reduce vehicle mass while retaining crash integrity and overall durability.
Articles AR/AI
Underway on Nuclear Power
At Ford Motor Co., CTO Dr. Ken Washington is driving new approaches to technology innovation — from inside and outside the enterprise.
Articles Transportation
Sitting on the Job
Engineers in commercial seating are exploring a range of materials and concepts to help reduce operator fatigue and discomfort. Many advances come from automotive companies that have the volumes to support much research.
Articles Transportation
Switching to Comfort Mode
Knobs and buttons once ruled the roost, but now they must work in tandem with touchscreens, which are ubiquitous in vehicles of all types. As they handle more functions, design teams are coming up with techniques that reduce operator movement by making them easier to reach.
Articles Transportation
Heavy-Duty Engine Design
Increasing regulations and market demands call for cleaner, more durable and fuel-efficient engines. Developers rely on CAE simulation, enhanced test methods and 3D printing to keep up.
Articles Transportation
Engineering at the Crossroads
As the industry pivots to automated/connected vehicles, new research and initiatives are guiding SAE to develop training and education programs to help working engineers and students succeed.
Articles Energy
Electrifying the Two-Wheeler
Alta Motors did not set out to create a zero-emission vehicle or invent a vital cog in the new landscape of electrified mobility. It wanted to build the best motorcycle it could regardless of powertrain, with products to satisfy the most serious motorcyclists.
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