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Layered approach and backup power supply essential

As autonomous driving systems advance, ensuring functional safety is critical...

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Automating image collection and analysis with AI

Overwatch Imaging is known for its intelligent multi-sensor payloads for airborne survey operations...

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Water sampler can plunge to depths of 2500m

The sampler collects discrete volumes of water at depth for later analysis using the ecoSUB range of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)...

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Detectors enable robots to pre-empt complex waves at sea

Wave-detecting devices are tethered to the seafloor, and measure the direction and height of incoming waves...

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MEMS timer

A differential oscillator is providing more accurate timing for autonomous vehicles. The oscillator, developed by SiTime, uses a MEMS architecture to provide more accurate timing than existing oscillators that use quartz crystals.

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Modular-payload UUV

The Mission Technologies division of HII in the US is developing a medium-class UUV with a range of 200 nautical miles and carrying a sonar payload.

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Marine autonomy network

A laboratory at the University of Plymouth is setting up a £1.2 million project to create an underwater data network in Smart Sound Plymouth.

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Safer landings promised

UAV Navigation has enhanced the internal algorithms of its autopilot during the landing phase to include differential braking control of the undercarriage for fixed-wing UAVs.

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Iterative ECUs tester

NI has created a unified test system architecture that allows engineers to move iteratively between data replay and hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) testing.

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Navigation by neural net

Researchers in Belgium have developed the first UAV navigation architecture to fuse an event-based camera and a frequency modulated continuous wave radar.