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Encoders for AGV designs

Megatron has developed two encoders for large autonomous ground vehicles such as forklift trucks. The encoders not only detect the steering angle but also the speed of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The kit encoders of the ETx25K series...

In Conversation

In conversation: Toby Wilmington

In an era where uncrewed systems and IoT devices are reshaping industries – from defence to logistics – their vulnerabilities often go unnoticed. Toby Wilmington, co-founder of Periphery, knows this all too well. A former touring musician turned cybersecurity...

Dossier

High Eye Airboxer

In the age of high-tech systems, where established OEMs and new start-ups alike compete to grab headlines with claims of what their products can do, it is easy to fall prey to the temptation to constantly replace parts and components with the latest...

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Video systems

The combination of AI and video encoding is transforming the development of uncrewed systems. Autonomous systems equipped with high-quality cameras can capture large amounts of video data; however, transmitting and storing such data...

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Ocean Business 2025

Held from April 8 to 10 at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton on England’s south coast, Ocean Business 2025 was a rich source of information on new and improved sensing, navigation and communication systems for USV...

In Operation

Impossible Metals’ Eureka underwater miner

Ore nodules collected from the seafloor represent a potentially enormous and untapped source of raw minerals, which are key to the fast-growing sustainable mobility and power grid industries, and are sufficiently widespread that many countries...

Dossier

Groupe Danielson Trident 100 TD2 turbodiesel

Just over 10 years ago, we featured Groupe Danielson’s Trident 100 TD2 engine, a 1.1 L, inline three-cylinder turbodiesel designed specifically for the UAV market. Since the company’s 2014 public launch of the Trident series of engines at AUVSI Xponential...

Insight

USVs

Although AI is booming both as an industry and as a buzzword worldwide, those among our readership understand that the true autonomy of an uncrewed vehicle depends on far more than just its intelligence. It is especially hard to consider...

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ECUs

It wasn’t so long ago that suppliers of ECUs and other control electronics solutions were in something of a tight spot. Pre-COVID ramp-ups in their customers’ production targets had filled ECU makers’ books with contracts, but the sudden freezes that happened...

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Xponential Europe 2025 part 2

Although the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International’s first European Xponential show was a long time in the making – and represented a risky venture – all parties are now in full agreement that producing a European show...