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Ensuring Aircraft Safety by Optimizing Ice Protection Systems

2023-01-13
Aircraft that carry crew and/or passengers must pass one or more icing-related standards for certification. Ice protection systems and components play a crucial role in safe aircraft operation. Such systems are usually installed in wings, nacelle intakes, pitot tubes, stabilizers, and propeller and helicopter rotor blades. These safety-critical systems follow a certification requirement per Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 23, 25, 27, 29, and others, for the various types of aircraft and rotorcraft as well as engines.
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Ensuring aircraft safety requires right wheel inspection equipment

2018-10-18
To ensure safe aircraft takeoffs and landings, one of the most vital areas to inspect for possible fatigue cracking and heat damage is the wheel bead seat. Comprehensive examination of this critical area, where the rubber edge of a tire contacts the wheel, requires having the right wheel inspection equipment on hand for the job – and not all maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facilities do.
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Estimation of excavator manipulator position in real time

2016-09-16
Manipulator position sensing is a key issue in the study of hydraulic excavator automation. A neural network-based vision system was developed to estimate the boom, arm, and bucket cylinder displacements of an excavator manipulator during a grading operation simulation.
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EtherCAT slave controller

2015-04-18
Microchip Technology Inc. announced the LAN9252 standalone EtherCAT slave controller with two 10/100 PHYs.
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Ethernet audio-video bridging

2014-09-20
Excelfore enables simplified audio-video interconnectivity using Ethernet audio-video bridging, which leads to lower cost and system weight for infotainment systems in vehicles.
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Etihad and Eos partner to develop 3D-printed cabin interiors

2018-11-29
EOS GmbH and Etihad Airways will partner to significantly expand local capabilities for industrial additive manufacturing – also known as 3D printing – in aviation. The partnership will enable Etihad Airways Engineering to produce 3D-printed aircraft parts at their facility in Abu Dhabi.
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Euro 7 braking particulate emissions

2023-05-19
The pending Euro 7 vehicle-emissions regulations include a significant new sustainability wrinkle: first-ever restrictions for particulate emissions from brakes.
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Euro NCAP to adopt autonomous vehicle ratings

2017-03-04
Euro NCAP will establish a separate category for autonomous vehicles, but there is not likely to be one for cars that are claimed to protect all occupants from serious injury or death.
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