Radar

20 Aug 23

Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Auto accidents are responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. That’s like losing the city of Prague each year. A switch to self-driving cars and trucks with various types of electronic sensors and sophisticated computers at the helm could save countless lives. But getting this…

05 Aug 23

Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

I’m standing on top of 100 meters of ice, watching a drone crisscross the Slakbreen glacier on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, more than 600 kilometers north of the mainland. I’m part of a team testing Peregrine—a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with miniaturized ice-penetrating radar, which can image the glacial…

30 Jun 23

Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. The kits taught him not only about electronics but also about chemistry and physics. As he got older, he and his brother began…

11 Apr 23

Automotive Radar Object Simulation for Validation

Civil, Structural & Architecture

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Rohde & Schwarz. Homologation and validation of new vehicle models today require millions of test kilometers to be driven under different environmental conditions, on different types of roads in various countries around the world. Due to the increased complexity of automated…

22 Mar 23

This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time

Computer & Information Technology

Light can reflect off mirrors, and sounds off surfaces. However, scientists have long theorized about time reflections, where a signal passing through a time “interface” would act like it was traveling backward in time. Now a new study for the first time demonstrates time reflections with light waves. This discovery…