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Delphi RACam Wins International Award For Automotive Innovation
The benefits of advanced driver assistance systems are fast becoming the focus of industry experts, globally. European Ministers have endorsed a target of reducing road fatalities to 50 percent of today’s levels by 2020. Euro NCAP is recognizing vehicle manufacturers for technologies that demonstrate a proven safety benefit. And, insurance companies are offering reduced rates for vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems.
New EV technology starting at the heavy end
Electric vehicles larger than cars include many boats, trucks, buses and other industrial and commercial vehicles, manned and unmanned aircraft and military vehicles for the field of combat and supply lines, even tugs for aircraft. Some electric vehicles are the size of a car but pack a much bigger punch. For example, forklifts and earthmovers can have much more powerful motors with many times the kW and Nm torque of car motors. Autonomous Underw...
STMicroelectronics and Mobileye to Develop Third-Generation System-on-Chip Family for Vision-Based Driver Assistance Systems
STMicroelectronics today announced that the two companies are co-developing the next generation of their System-on-Chip processor for the vision-based driver-assistance segment of the automotive market.
Self-Driving Vehicles Could be Ready by End of Decade
Vehicles that partially drive themselves will be available by the middle of the decade with more sophisticated self-driving systems by the end of the decade, General Motors Vice President of Global Research and Development Alan Taub says.
More car manufacturers in step with higher pedestrian safety standards
In the latest set of Euro NCAP results, the BMW 3 Series, Hyundai i30, Mazda CX-5 and Peugeot 208 have received Euro NCAP’s maximum five star rating. All four vehicles show that car makers are rising to Euro NCAP’s challenging 2012 5 star requirements, especially in the area of pedestrian protection where the thresholds have been significantly increased this year.
Yokogawa enhances STARDOM(TM) network-based control system by releasing new modules for power and upstream oil and gas applications
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released a number of new modules for the STARDOM(TM) network-based control system. The new modules include control modules with the high speed and reliability required for small- to medium-size turbomachinery, a frequency input module that can accurately measure the speed of even slowly rotating wind turbine blades, and an upgraded CPU module for oil and gas upstream processes that features improved reliability a...
Bionic penguins exhibit collective behaviour at the Hannover Fair
Festo’s Bionic Learning Network has developed two colonies of bionic penguins that demonstrate collective behaviour. This type of behaviour – which psychologists also call crowd behaviour – refers to social processes which emerge in a spontaneous manner when members of a group interact. In robotic terms, each penguin is an autonomous self-regulating unit that is free to explore its defined environment using complex built-in navigation and ...
ISA - O3neida Partnership Publishes Domain Ontologies Book for Reasoning Machines in Factory Automation
The International Society of Automation (ISA) announces that its ongoing publishing partnership with O3neida has produced a new technical publication, Domain Ontologies for Reasoning Machines in Factory Automation, by Jose L. Martinez Lastra, Ivan M. Delamer, and Fernando Ubis.
WEISS LS280 - High Speed Linear Transfer System
Assembly applications generally involve multiple component parts and processes. Each of these individual parts and processes has its own unique characteristics, which in turn influence the overall machine cycle time. With traditional rotary type assembly systems, the machine cycle time, and therefore the output, is determined by the slowest operation. The WEISS LS280 – High Speed Linear Transfer System however, enables several assembly oper...
Single Port PoE Controller Simplifies Power Sourcing Equipment Design
Linear Technology has introduced the LTC4263, an autonomous single-channel Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) controller with an onboard MOSFET for use in IEEE 802.3af Power Over Ethernet (PoE) compliant systems. Requiring only a few external components, the IC is a complete single-port PSE solution that detects, classifies and provides isolated 48V power to Powered Devices (PDs) connected to it. Offering standard-compliant AC or DC methods to sense ...