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Countdown starts for cells

GS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP) is developing a small but scalable battery for space systems. The small form factor lithium-ion battery has completed the Preliminary Design Review and is now moving to the critical design phase....

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Peristaltic liquid/gas pumps

Conical revolution pumps are providing new ways to propel fluids around uncrewed systems. The pumps, called the R-series and developed by TCS Micropumps in the UK, work on the peristalsis principle to pump both liquids and gases...

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Code spots possible trouble

Researchers in the US have developed a way to predict the behaviour of pedestrians and cyclists around a driverless car. The algorithm, developed at MIT, breaks down the problem of predicting the action of multiple users, each represented as an individual...

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Real-time fuel level data

A capacitive fuel level sensor from Reventec is being used to provide realtime level data from a Martin UAV V-BAT tactical UAS. Reventec’s LS200 has a solid-state capacitive sensor with no moving parts and measures the full depth of the fuel tank to an accuracy of ±0.5% to provide critical fuel level data to operators...

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Safety-critical standard

The Khronos Group has released a standard for safety-critical GPU graphics and computing. The group has already developed a range of standards for graphics used by key developers such as Nvidia, but the Vulkan Safety-Critical...

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Data helps stop spoofing

Cambridge Pixel has developed a technique for using radar data to support global satellite navigation systems, protecting USVs or ASVs at sea against GPS spoofing, jamming and interference. Spoofing is where a GNSS signal from a GPS or Galileo satellite...

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Anti-radiation shield

Researchers in Japan have developed a 3D-printed radiation shield to allow mainstream low-cost UAVs to be used to gather vital data on climate change. Numerical weather predictions (NWPs) rely on mathematical models that use data collected by...

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Miniature flapping drive

A new drive system for flapping-wing autonomous craft has been developed at the University of Bristol, in the UK, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that removes the need for conventional motors and gears (writes Nick Flaherty)...

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Cobra Aero A99H

In UST 12 (February/March 2017) we featured the A33i UAV engine, a spark-ignited single cylinder two-stroke developed through a collaboration between Power4Flight, Currawong Engineering and Cobra MOTO, the latter of which aptly spun off the Cobra Aero...