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Industrial joystick for UAV and UGV control stations

Ruffy Controls has unveiled the TS3 Series, a new miniature industrial joystick designed for uncrewed aerial and ground vehicle control stations. As the smallest product in the company’s lineup, the TS3 Series is engineered to...

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Thermal management for UAV battery packs

US materials firm KULR has developed a battery pack for UAVs with cells from Molicel and Amprius. The KULR One Air will use a combination of cells for high energy density and high power. Molicel’s P50B is a popular high-power lithium-ion NMC cell...

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NVIDIA ships long-awaited Thor AI chip

NVIDIA has shipped the Thor GPU chip at the heart of its Drive system for autonomous vehicles. The Drive AGX Thor kit is built on the Thor T5000 GPU with ARM Neoverse processor cores and the DriveOS7 software stack. The kit also includes...

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Modular approach to multi-function controls

Steatite has developed a modular concept for multi-function consoles (MFCs), aimed at showcasing their systems engineering capability. It brings together various competencies of design, development and qualification...

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Chip architecture for autonomous driving

Athos Silicon has started the next phase of development for its ‘multiple system on chip’ (mSoC) controller in a Level 4 autonomous test vehicle. The vehicle is equipped with a complete set of Lidar, radar and camera systems, enabling live testing...

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GNSS module cuts size

Septentrio has developed a series of high-accuracy positioning satellite navigation receivers that are the smallest available for their performance. The mosaic-g5 P1, mosaic-G5 P3 multi-frequency GNSS receivers and mosaic-G5 P3H GNSS...

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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...

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UAV navigation without GNSS

AgEagle Aerial Systems has developed a vision system for providing navigation without satellite signals. The eBee VISION software provides autonomous position updates with map referencing to provide precise navigation, even in GNSS-denied...

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Folded zoom for UAV thermal camera

MKS Instruments has developed a lightweight, compact, continuous zoom lens designed specifically for thermal cameras on UAVs. The Ophir FoldIR 25-275 mm f/5.5 MWIR continuous zoom lens is designed for the latest cooled 15 μm VGA...

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Lidar for autonomous Caterpillar quarry trucks

Caterpillar is to integrate Lidar laser sensor technology from Luminar into its next generation autonomous trucks. The Luminar Lidar technology will be introduced in the Cat Command trucks for hauling, initially targeted for quarry and aggregate operations...