Providing power in extreme environmental conditions, in particular oil and gas applications, drilling or pipeline inspection, Ultralife has developed the SeaSafe Endurance battery module. It is, said the company an easy-to-configure battery system designed to fit inside pressure vessels. If required, two batteries can be placed on top of each other or a battery can be placed in an adjacent ...
Abaco Systems has introduced a SOSA-aligned Open VPX 3U video graphics and GPGPU card. Powered by an Ada Lovelace architecture Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU, with 16Gbyte of GDDR6 ECC memory, GRA117S is designed to support AI and deep learning. 9,728 Cuda cores, 76 RT cores, and 304 Tensor cores are implemented, and there is support for AV1, H.265 and H.264 ...
European unmanned aerial vehicle maker Tekever has signed a two-year partnership with US synthetic aperture radar maker Imsar. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate Imsar’s radars into Tekeler’s air frames. Tekever will also support Imsar’s radar development with knowledge of tactics and capabilities gathered on Ukraine’s front lines, and the agreement includes a preferred partner support package and volume ...
Airbus Defence and Space and Helsing have signed a cooperation agreement to work together on AI technologies to be used in a future Wingman system. This is described as an unmanned fighter-type aircraft that would operate with current combat jets and receive its tasks from a pilot in a command aircraft, such as the Eurofighter. Airbus states that, as a ...
American Aerospace Technologies has won an FAA waiver and exemption to fly its unmanned aircraft commercially beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight over the San Joaquin Valley, California. The AiRanger aircraft has a 5.7m wingspan, weights 100kg and can fly for 12 hours or 1,200km. Power comes from an 8hp engine. Rules constrain its altitude to 8,000feet (~2,500m) and a ~11,000km2 ...
FlyFocus has developed a detachable tethered drone that can hover for up to 30 days at 70m altitude, powered through a tether, then drop the line to fly for up to 30 minutes on internal batteries. Called CableGuard, the drone consumes up to 5kW, and 400Vdc is specified within the tether cable to reduce I2R losses, allowing lighter conductors to ...
Hover-in-place tethered drones are a thing, developed by a US company called Dragonfly Pictures. 8 to 10kW of power for continuous flight at up to 150m altitude is sent up the tether at high voltage. Electronics Weekly got to hear of this because the on-board power system uses Vicor modules – BCM VIA low-profile modules that convert 800V to 50V with ...
NXP and drone software company Auterion are to co-develop high-reliability integrated hardware and software for the commercial unmanned aerial systems industry. “With the development of regulations and the increased number of autonomous systems in the field, the requirement for components and software that are certifiable and the ability to deploy intelligence on the edge is becoming more and more important,” ...
Lynx Software Technologies is aiming at high-reliability multi-core edge computing with three custom software bundles for industrial, avionic and UAV/satellite applications. Each includes its Mosa.ic framework for integrating multiple operating systems in safety-related or secure systems, and each is built around the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor. They “leverage the safety and reliability of Mosa.ic to enable mission critical edge computing”, according to Lynx ...
US engineers have used a remotely-piloted drone to survey power lines without visual or radar contact. Flown as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s unmanned aircraft pilot program, the drone used automatic on-board detect-and-avoid systems to make this beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation possible. “This marks the first true BVLOS flight in the nation and is a tremendous milestone for the ...
