Category Autonomous, Energy & Infrastructure Systems

Material, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

New materials for Soft Actuators or Artificial muscles enabling life like Soft Robots and augment Soldiers performance

The emerging field of soft robotics aims to improve robot/human interactivity promising to bring robots into all aspects our daily lives, including wearable robotics, surgical robots, micromanipulation, search and rescue, and others. Soft robotics differ from traditional counterparts in some…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 21, 2023

Manufacturing, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

Vehicle Manufacturing trends

Vehicle manufacturing has come a long way since 1908 when Henry Ford began production of the Model T automobile using a mass production assembly line....

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Rajesh Uppal
May 18, 2023

Comm. & Networking, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

Connected Vehicles and V2X Vehicle to everything technology

Today 1.35M people die each year in automobile crashes globally; 38,000 in the U.S. alone, the equivalent of two 747s crashing in mid-air every single week. Counterintuitively, despite the COVID-19 pandemic leading to fewer drivers on the roads and a…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 17, 2023

Air Force & Aviation, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy

Synthetic and Sustainable Aviation fuels (SAF)

A big push has been to increase the efficiency of aircraft engines, mainly to make them go faster, to fly higher and use less fuel. Now a new concern has come to the fore, that of environment. We have…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 16, 2023

Global Risks & Future Threats, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems, Weapons & Munitions

Counter drone swarm technologies, required as drone swarms being employed for surveillance and delivering weaponized explosives

Criminals have been using drones in a variety of ways. They use them to prepare house break-ins, observe larger targets, spot security gaps, and determine security guard patterns. Militant organizations have started employing drones to further their terrorism. The small…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 16, 2023

Air Force & Aviation, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy

Air-launch-to-orbit brings space launch to any airport and covert military satellite launches

There are three major launch types for spacecraft: vertical takeoff, horizontal takeoff, and air launch. The cost of launching into space is often measured by the change in velocity required to reach the destination orbit, known as delta-v or Δv.…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 9, 2023

AI & IT, Air Force & Aviation, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

Airforce develop Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems to meet challenges of Cyber-Attacks, Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2SD) actions and Space Threats

The current Armed drones like Predators and Reapers are essentially remote controlled that is they involve human operators remotely controlling the vehicle with the assistance of fairly low levels of automation for some functions (e.g., the operator specifies waypoints to…...

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Rajesh Uppal
May 7, 2023

Electronics & EW, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy

Electric Vehicle Charging technologies and innovations

A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. This assumes the average gasoline vehicle on the road today has a fuel economy of about 22.0 miles per gallon and drives around 11,500 miles per…...

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Rajesh Uppal
April 30, 2023

Space Technology, Defense & Exploration, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy

Propulsion technologies for Space logistics, In-Space Assembly (OOS / ISA), automated satellite on-orbit servicing (OOS)

In the history of spaceflight, almost all spacecraft have been manufactured and assembled on the ground, then integrated into a launch vehicle for delivery into orbit. This approach imposes significant limitations on the size, volume, and design of payloads that…...

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Rajesh Uppal
April 23, 2023

AI & IT, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems

Multi-Robot Collaborative Localization

Humanitarian Crisis scenarios occur frequently and they typically require immediate rescue intervention. In many cases, the scene conditions may be prohibitive for the human rescuers to provide instant aid, as they have to act within hazardous conditions, like collapsed buildings,…...

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Rajesh Uppal
April 19, 2023