February 25th, 2009 by admin
The thematic quality of GPS navigational systems varies widely in personal use areas of activity but follows a very narrow path when considering the mapping, route planning, path tracking and other navigational rules of behavior. Auto navigation systems and GPS devices are everywhere you turn in this day and age. You can find them in [...]
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November 18th, 2008 by admin
Much has been said and written about the globalization of the marketplace in the new century. More and more, business no longer sees their markets as limited to their community, state or even this country. To be successful in the new world economies, we have to see our markets as international if for no other [...]
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April 15th, 2008 by admin
Wireless technologies will become massive in its pervasiveness and impact virtually every aspect of life evolving well beyond mobile phones and PDAs to other devices, services, channels and content. Microwave circuits afford more frequency spectrum and very short antennas. With GaAs and SiGe, entire microwave transceivers can be inexpensively put on a single chip. New [...]
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April 14th, 2008 by admin
Telemetry and Database Driven Robotics Challenges such as voice, obstacle and image recognition, emotional response, and eye-hand coordination still remain. High-performance processors, hardware to provide situational awareness, and improved artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling researchers to create lifelike robots that run or have facial expressions. High intelligence is a missing ingredient. Considerable progress will be [...]
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April 13th, 2008 by admin
The trend toward the miniaturization of sensor systems will have a significant effect on how the environment is studied and monitored. “Systems on a chip” technology, for example, may replace chemistry and biology laboratories with portable hand-size instruments used for rapid chemical or biological agent detection and quantification in a myriad of situations. It is [...]
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