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Air traffic optimiser

Rohde & Schwarz has designed a mounting adapter for installing its UHF wireless analyser on a medium-sized UAV. The R&S EVSD1000 VHF/UHF analyser is intended to work on a UAV to provide the accurate and reliable navigation required for optimising air traffic control.

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Rice counter crops up

Researchers in China and Singapore have developed an automated method of counting rice plants using UAVs. Rice is cultivated on nearly 162 million hectares of land worldwide.

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Simple way to make AUVs

A scalable, modular system for developing underwater autonomous robots is aiming to speed up their design process. The system, developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), builds deformable ‘aquabots’ using simple repeating substructures instead of unique components.

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Neural net’s night crashes assistance

A spiking neural network built using memtransistors can help prevent collisions between autonomous vehicles at night. Almost half of fatal accidents occur at night. As vehicles become autonomous, the ways of detecting and avoiding these collisions must evolve too, but current systems are often complicated, resource-intensive or work poorly in the dark.

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Avionics design uses ML

Intel and Daedalean have developed the first multi-core reference design for certifiable avionics using machine learning, or ML. The design provides vision-based situational awareness using neural networks with high-resolution, high-throughput camera inputs based on Intel’s 11th Gen Core i7 and Agilex F-Series FPGAs.