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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

The latest Ranger kit can be used for automated driving, valet parking in garages and structures, freight distribution, and docking of buses and large trucks. We have made this technology smaller, faster, and more robust for real-world use at a relatively low cost. Kristopher Kozak, leader of Ranger’s development.

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Video Friday: Uncrewed

Cars That Think

Paper ] We present FLEX-SDK: an open-source software development kit that allows creating a social robot from two simple tablet screens. Paper ] D'Manus is a 10 DoF, low-cost, reliable prehensile hand. Paper ] D'Manus is a 10 DoF, low-cost, reliable prehensile hand. TRI ] Thanks, Lukas!

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment. In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

Our system was configured with two battery units each with 2.4kWh storage giving 4.8KWh of maximum stored capacity. With Octopus Go we receive low cost power between 00:30 and 04:30 every day. Inverter: This is the most important bit of kit. Battery Pack: PylonTech Battery Storage . Octopus – The clever bit.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. He started his explorations with chemistry. in Rochester, NY.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

With engineers from Intel’s CAD department, he developed a graphics-based circuit-simulation environment with which engineers entered simulation schematics including parasitic capacitance of devices and interconnections graphically rather than alphanumerically. The output was then examined on a workstation as graphic waveforms.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in By partnering with these two industries. Kwong asked.

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