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[youtube VXUOKeDOtOw nolink] Gill Sensors has produced a video animation detailing how the Blade360 rotary position sensor works. The video covers the fundamentals of induction technology and shows how the sensor uses this principle to detect absolute position. A metallic target, referred to as the activator, passes over a series
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OxTS has launched its smallest and lightest inertial navigation system - the newly developed xNAV200, a very compact, small and lightweight INS, perfectly suited for all applications where size and weight as well as performance matter. xNAV200 includes dual-antenna GPS and tightly coupled INS in one compact and powerful package.
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ITT Exelis unveiled its airborne sense-and-avoid (ABSAA) radar under development for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system. It is also being promoted for other UAS as a solution to flying in unrestricted airspace, branded as the SkySense 2020H
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Gill Sensors, a developer of specialist non-contact inductive position sensors, has announced the availability of its next-generation micro position sensor technology for robotics and unmanned systems applications. The new electronic sensor platform has already been designed into a number of custom micro position sensors for specialist applications and
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Defense Research Associates, Inc. (DRA), a small, veteran-owned company, has been awarded a $5 million small business contract for the U.S. Air Force as an ongoing effort to develop and demonstrate technology to prevent mid-air collisions between aircraft. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring
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Ecrin Systems has released a new rugged computer specifically targeted to space-constrained environments such as UAS, ground vehicles and manned aircraft subject to extremes of temperature, shock and vibration. Named ‘ONYX’, the computer is based on a rugged COM Express module design and offered with a range of powerful
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The adoption of secure real-time operating system (RTOS) software and related embedded computing security software tools for military embedded systems continues to grow, driven by increased security threats and concerns, real and perceived. Many pundits agree that the need for information security, especially for critical and classified data, as
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[gallery orderby="rand"] A new company, Fat Head Solutions, LLC with bases in Wichita Kansas and two other major operating locations, will provide low cost, high value, and complete subsystem solutions for small unmanned aircraft systems. Capitalizing on an emerging $17B/year market, Fat Head Solutions intends to
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Chris Norton spent 22 years as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot before he co-founded 2Excel Aviation in 2005. The UK company operates a fleet of stunt planes known as the Blades and is licensed as an airline, so it can take fare-paying passengers on ride-alongs as
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Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has undertaken the development of the key "Seek and Avoid System" technology for ADTI's next generation UAS. The new technology development will make the short and long range UAS more efficient and effective for military/homeland security applications
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India plans to develop new-generation Electronic Warfare (EW) systems to be fitted on Unmanned Aircraft, aircraft and satellites that would help it see "deep inside enemy territories", a key defence research and development official said in Bangalore. Chief Controller, Research and Development (Electronics and Computer Sciences), Defence
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Cloud Cap Technology has announced that its Piccolo SL autopilot will be updated with some new components in the next few months. After 5 years of deliveries, several of the key components in the Piccolo have gone end of life and a refresh was in order. The new Piccolo SL+