Bosch’s Servotwin electrohydraulic steering system is an enabler for driver-assistance technology and a “building block” for future automation. It offers speed-based steering assistance with active return as well as a variety of driver-assistance functions, including semi-automated driving. Hydraulic steering systems have been available for years. “So what we’re doing here...
Digitalglobe Taps Satellite Images, Data Analytics, Ai, Machine Learning to Map Continent for Psma Australia
DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE:MAXR), in Westminster, Colorado, has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and crowdsourcing technologies to map the entire continent of Australia at a unprecedented level of detail, officials say. PSMA Australia, an organization offering geospatial data to public and private institutions across the continent, selected DigitalGlobe to produce data layers...
Advanced Simulation Techniques Drive Powertrain Design
Commercial vehicle designers are using a variety of simulation and validation tools as they attempt to find new ways to improve many aspects of vehicle design. Engineers are working with a growing number of tools and physical parameters as they attempt to add features and functions that often require close...
Russian Helicopters Successfully Develops Helicopter Ditching System
Specialists at Kazan Helicopters have completed testing of an Ansat light helicopter equipped with a ditching system or emergency flotation system (EFS). The Ansat’s ditching system is designed to save passengers and crewmembers in case of an emergency water landing. The system is now in the certification phase, after which...
J-10b Fighter Aircraft Debuts Chinese Thrust Vectoring Technology
A Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Group (Chengdu) twinjet J-10B multirole fighter equipped with a Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (Shenyang) WS-10G thrust vectoring turbofan engine made an aerial appearance during the airshow portion 2018 China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, China, confirming suspected thrust vectoring capability development of China’s WS-10 engine. The...