The operator station is able to be installed in a vehicle, trailer or containers with the control and interface systems designed to mimic the setup of a physical rig to improve operator familiarity with the system.
The lenses could even be applied to allow drivers to see through blind spots on their vehicles
#Could bacteria from honeybees replace antibiotics? Bacteria are increasingly outsmarting our most overused antibiotics creating a boom of drug-resistant diseases.
I bullish on these neighborhood-type trikes which make great commuter vehicles. Highway friendly they're not
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,
The automaker has made a splash with its vehicle-to-grid technology but now it getting more serious with the Honda Smart Home on the campus of the University of California at Davis
The first of its kind in the United kingdom Bio-Bus is a 40-seat transit vehicle that runs entirely on fuel generated through anaerobic digestion.
and food that unfit for human consumption wee able to produce enough biomethane to provide a significant supply of gas to the national gas network that capable of powering almost 8500 homes as well as fuelling the Bio-Bus. Gas-powered vehicles
if any vehicles in its sightseeing fleet will join the airport shuttle and be converted to run on Bristolian sewage and food scraps o
which has vowed to use no motorized vehicles. This means the suit is getting tested during skiing, walking and climbing Antarctica's jagged peaks and glaciers.
The custom-built underwater vehicles are designed to dive below the surface, swim amongst marine animals, deftly navigate through underwater canyons,
or three passengers, depending on the configuration of the vehicle, and can dive to a depth of about 394 feet (120 m). See Photos of the Deepflight Super Falcon Submersible Traditionally,
which again changes the vehicle's density and enables it to float. The Super Falcon, however, dives underwater like a whale, using thrust to generate"downward lift"to help the vehicle descend below the water's surface.
Essentially, the submarine uses lift and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater.
or the vehicle loses power underwater, it will simply float back to the surface.""It looks like a James bond wild machine,
The vehicles are among the latest high-tech items geared at the super-rich, and the company already boasts some famous clients:
however, climbing prices and advances in deep-sea equipment such as remotely operated vehicles and flexible risers#pipes used to lift material#have revived interest."
which may have helped them to make hasty retreats from oncoming vehicles, according to a study published in Current Biology1.
The study s authors discovered the trend after noticing that the number of vehicle-killed birds had declined over the past three decades.
and stuffing#gathering 104 vehicle-killed adults and 134 adults killed accidentally in nets used for the study.
The team discovered that vehicle-killed birds had longer wings than birds that died in nets
and that while the wings of the vehicle-killed birds had lengthened over time, those#of net-killed birds
Denmark, has noticed also a decline in the number vehicle-killed birds around Denmark, and suspects natural selection.
What about a vehicle that's connected to your heart? The RC-F Coupe glows according to the pulse of the driver.
but with hackers having the ability to take over vehicles, we don't know if one connected to your heart is such a great ides.
Hydrogen fuel cells can power vehicles ranging from cars to submarines and rockets. They can also heat buildings
Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
But unlike the US Canada doesn't have its own vehicles capable of launching a satellite into orbit
The inflatable technology is intended to help slow down vehicles after they enter the thin Martian atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
Then after spending decades building the ISS the US cancelled the space shuttle the vehicle originally intended for transport to the ISS as part of its post-Apollo programme.
Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X were launched to the International space station (ISS) on 3 august aboard a Japanese resupply vehicle
lightweight satellites that can piggyback on the launches of other vehicles.""That way every rocket that goes up is kicking off Cubesats,
and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles. s designers, when we can compare the robot perceptions with how it acts,
The engineers mounted 18 motion-capture cameras on the ceiling to track multiple robotic vehicles simultaneously.
Agha-mohammadi says. epending on where the vehicle is, you can look at the environment from different angles,
and can test and prototype your vehicles as if theye fully outdoors, before you deploy them in the real world,
but they were so effective in this study that Cima says they may end up being the most promising vehicle for potential human clinical trials.
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
These fatty molecules have shown promise as delivery vehicles for RNA interference a process that allows disease-causing genes to be turned off with small strands of RNA.#
Yanik s lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood-brain barrier a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs
To get the CRISPR components into bacteria the researchers created two delivery vehicles engineered bacteria that carry CRISPR genes on plasmids
Multiple uses for quick changes While troops and vehicles often move from one environment to another,
either on uniforms or on vehicles, could allow the camouflage patterns to constantly change in response to the surroundings. he U s. military spends millions developing different kinds of camouflage patterns,
a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,
customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators, and communication devices configure settings,
Of course nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle says Carlo Ratti professor of the practice in MIT s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper s coauthors.
if you re willing to share vehicles s
#A new way to diagnose malaria Over the past several decades malaria diagnosis has changed very little.
Courtesy of Witricity Corp. Full Screen The Witricity technology can charge an electric car with the vehicle parked about a foot above the transmitting pad.
or perhaps even vehicles. Detailed studies of aerodynamics have shown that while a ball with a dimpled surface has half the drag of a smooth one at lower speeds,
and test winches and cables Looking back Glass credits his undergraduate years on MIT s Solar Electrical Vehicle Team a student organization that builds and races solar
RNAI delivery vehicles. They also showed that they could block up to five genes at once by delivering different RNA sequences.
but you re processing signals on a vehicle or something where you did not have significant computational power.
When the vehicles brake a process known as regenerative braking captures the kinetic energy (usually dissipated as heat through friction) and converts it into electricity that charges the battery
The startup also collects operational data from the vehicles to inform fleet managers of the best vehicles for the technology usually ones traveling in the stop
and other companies have started retrofitting vehicles with electric powertrains. But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.
At the end of the day it s about making the economics work to compete against the price of fuel Hynes says adding We re able to do a lot with a little.
Electric or hybrid fleet vehicles traditionally run on large batteries sometimes more than 100 kilowatt-hours (kwh) in capacity that cost upward of $40000.
which involves running a vehicle on treadmill-like rollers to estimate fuel mileage in urban driving.
They first ran a 5-ton vehicle through the test without XL Hybrids system and then with the system observing a 21 percent savings.
While the system can be added as a retrofit it s generally installed as part of the modifications that most commercial fleet vehicles go through.
The vehicles literally roll of the line and go to facilities where they ll be modified anyway he says.
and incorporate it onto other vehicle makes and models and rapidly scale across the industry Hynes says.
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
because they interfere with pollution control systems in vehicles and contribute to acid rain and smog. Processes now used to upgrade
therefore, cheaper and capable of driving longer distances. lectric vehicles are popular, but still a niche product.
and therefore less-polluting vehicles. One of our wildest dreams for the nanomaterials we are developing is that they could be used to make the super-strong lightweight cables that would make possible the construction of a space elevator
Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which only emit water when driven. But making hydrogen which mostly comes from natural gas requires electricity from conventional carbon dioxide-emitting power plants.
Obviously such vehicles must be small enough to be injected into the eyeball for example with a syringe.
and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
Crucially the high heat of vehicle environments can intensify these telltale degradation tracks and even cause complete battery failure.
which is above the operating temperature for most vehicles Bak said. But that temperature threshold dropped for a highly charged battery suggesting that operating at full energy capacity accelerates structural degradation and vulnerability.
#Used-cigarette butts offer energy storage solution A group of scientists from South korea have converted used-cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be integrated into computers handheld devices electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.
or positive electrode, of electrical vehicle batteries-as the battery charged.""We wanted to catch
when plugging in your vehicle at home overnight). These animated images of individual particles, taken while the electrode is charging,
and neutral environment) makes these nanoparticles an ideal vehicle for the controlled activation of therapeutics directly inside the cells Raymo says.
Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.
This understanding could inform the emerging use of nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering genes across cellular membranes."
Batteries in electric vehicles are responsible for a significant portion of the vehicle mass. And the size of batteries in portable electronics limits the trend of downsizing.
and development of electrical vehicles, space-launch vehicles and portable electronic devices. By being able to store
like that needed to start a vehicle or heavy-construction equipment. Although more work needs to be done,
or aerospace vehicle if you have to replace them every few years because they go dead."
and drive virtual vehicles too using virtual pedals and steering wheels. The options are unlimited with this combo. very exciting times for the human race.
what no spacefaring vehicle ever has: offer reliable affordable and regular round-trip access to low Earth orbit.
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
Imagine a fleet of these vehicles whisking payloads to LEO on a daily basis . If multiple countries operate their own fleets there will eventually be multiple payload deliveries per day.
and hit this vehicle. I read that they had a breakthrough in developing materials for the engines to enable them to survive the intense heat
I want to see vehicles that can mine asteroids. Its 2013 and we still havent even dug up that Monolith on the Moon.@
so light for its size it will not get as hot as other re-entry vehicles like the space shuttle (1100k vs 2000k).
either disable the attacking vehicle or cause any explosions to detonate prematurely with no American lives lost.
Provided of course the vehicle hasn't sprung a leak. We've been meaning to do this for a while says Adam Rein the company's lead director and cofounder over the buzz of the air compressor.
in order to track down repossessed vehicles. Now The New york times reports that some lenders are protecting their investments by making sure the cars are never really out of their control.
and to do so they looked at three different vehicles last week during exercises in Fort Benning Georgia. Together the vehicles would enable the Army to do forcible entry missions
The first vehicle is in essence a light tank. Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.
The United states hasn't had a light parachutable tank since they retired the M551 Sheridan in 1996 and even then its performance was underwhelming;
The next vehicles is the ultra-lightweight combat vehicle (ULCV. The ULCV is in essence a turbo jeep.
The vehicle itself will weigh no more than 4500 pounds making the fully loaded and crewed vehicle under 8000 pounds.
It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in
or out and the vehicle should drive for at least 250 miles at full weight while also being able to survive a rollover.
While the current solicitation for the ULCV doesn't specify it a previous solicitation wanted the vehicle to to incorporate a medium caliber weapon into squad operations.
and engaging hardened enemy bunkers light armored vehicles and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
Together these vehicles will let the Army arrive from the sky and start fighting on day one all
while waiting for heavier vehicles and reinforcements to arrive. If they all work as expected the vehicles would add greatly to
what the Army can do early on in a war with the light tanks protecting the landing zone the combat vehicle carrying soldiers to the fight
and the light reconnaissance vehicle seeking out hidden dangers. Of course the Marines may already be there.
and soon they ll deploy vehicles too o
#Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked A team of twenty students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands entered the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 a six-day solar race
The 60-kw battery sheathed in a bright yellow casing runs down the center of the vehicle
The system uses a Wi-fi protocol for vehicles 802. 11p to see where the driver cannot.
Boeing will receive $4. 2 billion to build its CST-100 spacecraft a vehicle it has been working on for the past four years
Despite not being chosen for the program Sierra nevada plans to further develop its Shuttle-esque vehicle the Dream Chaser perhaps as a resupply vehicle or for commercial space flight t
A team of university engineers has created a vehicle headlight that adjusts itself so that drivers can keep their high beams on even
and humans teaming up in separate vehicles. By the 2030s humans with robot copilots could fly alongside robots remotely controlled by humans u
so that they can travel safely through skies without hitting other vehicles. Google s driverless car program is an obvious touchstone for this project but it s a limited one.
The Mistral class ship is designed to carry up to 700 troops, over 60 land vehicles, and around 30 light helicopters within landing distance of a coast, where they will (in peaceful situations) arrive
when the vehicle's attitude is beyond recovery or control in order to contain the damage from any explosion or debris in the launch area.
The Cygnus cargo vehicle destroyed on this accident was carrying a lot of small satellites owned by schools universities and startups.
One solution to overcomeâ these constraints is the use of marine drones autonomous surfaceâ orâ underwater vehicles capable of traversing great distances and operatingâ independently for prolonged periods of time.
The vehicles carry a range of instruments for observing these animals. As well as measuring the temperature of the water
C-Enduroc-Enduro is an innovative long-endurance autonomous surface vehicle built by Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV.
The vehicle was launched officially in March 2014. Built to operate in all marine environments C-Enduro uses solar panels a wind generator a lightweight diesel generator
Wave Gliderthe Wave Glider is an autonomous environmentally-friendly oceangoing vehicle developed by Liquid Robotics.
Slocum Gliderthe Slocum Glider built by Teledyne Webb Research is a high-endurance vehicle equipped with a variety of sensors.
Images and video courtesy ofâ MOST Autonomous Vessels Ltdâ Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) andâ National Oceanographic Centre t
One challenge is to make sure the vehicles have the ability to rendezvous and perform coordinated landings autonomously.
The controller handles the nonlinearities inherent in the motions of the two vehicles and is stable in the face of multi-second time delays allowing unreliable wifi communication to be used in the landing.
when hovering over the ground vehicle. For more information you can read the paper Coordinated landing of a quadrotor on a skid-steered ground vehicle in the presence of time delays (John M. Daly Yan Ma Steven L. Waslander Autonomous
Robots Springer US July 2014) or ask questions below! Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research start-ups business and education from around the world o
Overall automotive patents make up around one third of the total not including other types of vehicles such as trucks buses agricultural machinery aircraft and aerospace/defence.
Most of the patents in the UK dataset are in the field of autonomous vehicles includingâ road vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles.
and reduce fear of its autonomous status. Â Small cars in general may be more vulnerable in a crash with a heavier vehicle
and to search vehicles. By 2007 more than 800 of these military robots were in use throughout Afghanistan Iraq and several other countries.
and that have a positive impact on the world. â#Colin Angle CEO of irobot described Google recent acquisitions as a logistics play around self driving vehicles
According to Mueller the algorithm allows the vehicle to remain in flight despite the loss of one two or possibly even three propellers.
and created a linear dynamics model of the vehicle in order to provide us with some intuition about its physical dynamics.
Our initial hope was to demonstrate each of the key abilities using a single set of vehicles
in order to make the vehicle lighter for flight. Its primary limitation however was its inability to demonstrate coordinated mobility for randomly assembled configurations.
One additional revision of the vehicle was created prior to arriving at the current design. In designing Revision 1 one of our major goals was to integrate both driving and flying capabilities.
when conducting experiments with our vehicle within the environment of a 3d motion capture system (needed for ground truth measurements)
and (2) measurement information (or control information) needed to be transmitted to the vehicle wirelessly for control purposes which at the time of development (using Wifi) generally incurred a lot of latency and packet loss.
Standard on most aerial vehicles is a 3-axis rate-gyroscope which is used for measuring body angular velocities as well as estimating the attitude of the vehicle in flight.
An infrared distance measurement sensor is used for measuring the distance of a unit to the ground.
Not only is used this for estimating the altitude of the vehicle but if units share their distance measurements with one another they can also estimate the vehicle tilt
when flying over a flat surface. We have designed each unit with magnetic interfaces located along each of its six sides.
in order to achieve flight â##without it the vehicle would simple rip itself apart before takeoff.
Thus each unit is generating the appropriate control effort necessary to keep the vehicle in flight
The only information that a unit needs for flight is its local sensor data and its position with respect to the vehicle centre of mass.
if each unit knows the physical configuration of the vehicle. In order for a unit to determine this on its own each unit can work out its relation to neighbouring units by sharing appropriate information.
By forwarding this information around the network each unit can arrive at the physical configuration of the vehicle much like how one might establish his/her family tree.
Assuming a rigid body for the vehicle which was taken into account when designing the chassis local sensor information provides a unit with a rough estimate of the vehicle tilt and altitude.
And knowing its position with respect to the centre of mass it straightforward to work out the appropriate control effort needed to counteract any disturbances.
We instead developed a means for automatically computing the tuning parameters for any flight-feasible configuration of the vehicle that would result in best flight performance.
In carefullly analyzing the parameters obtained for a variety of configurations we then developed a scalable method for mapping the configuration of a vehicle to its approximated optimal control tuning parameters.
With all the radars the vehicle can look left and right and back left and back right as well as forward
For fast forward flight, the vehicle tilts to a near-horizontal orientation, resulting in efficient lift production due to the conventional wing design.
While the vehicle is hovering, it is crucial that a large part of the flaps are within the propeller-induced airstream,
Two radios are attached on the bottom side of the vehicle; a Wifly module for high-bandwidth telemetry,
if the vehicle does not receive control commands anymore or if the battery voltage is too low are implemented also on the FMU.
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
"We've been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities, and ensuring our software
and sensors work as theye supposed to on this new vehicle.""The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS
and interacts with the vehicles, and to uncovering challenges that are unique to a fully self-driving vehicle."
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
That included being hit from behind by other cars or sideswiped p
#Engineered Bacteria Send A Signal When Water Gets Polluted Until now, there hasn been a simple, inexpensive and quick way to monitor water quality.
However, unlike other options, this coil system from Fraunhofer Institute can also discharge the electricity stored in a vehicle battery
mentioning technologies that would make buildings or vehicles more energy efficient as one example.""But as we tackle economy wide emissions
and storage devices used in handheld electronics, vehicles, and power plants, making them more cost-effective, efficient and environmentally friendly.
The arena is equipped with a motion capture system that provides vehicle position and attitude measurements for the small custom quadrocopters.
which also is working on next-generation vehicles, including hybrid electrics intended for city use. What different about Daimler truck?
But those vehicles aren't designed to operate alongside other cars and trucks on the highway.
and monitors to locate other vehicles on the road enables the Inspiration Trucks to remain in their lane,
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only that it was a minuscule sum compared to the overall cost of operating a vehicle. he charge for the service will be paid by the OEMS original equipment manufacturers for the first few years;
this observation could help lead to more sensitive hydrogen sensors for detecting leaks in fuel-cell-powered vehicles. ne main challenge
which, unlike conventional vehicles, can exploit the warmth of air that been passed over an internal combustion engine.
Alixpartners, a global advisory firm, estimates that car sharing services have cannibalized sales of 500,000 vehicles over the past decade,
the vehicle itself is just one part of what it means to own a car. A few companies have partnered with startup services to create e toohourly models,
If Yost plan to drive the thousands of miles across America without stopping to recharge his vehicle works,
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