This article outlines what Swissloop Tunneling is, how Groundhog Alpha is structured, what potential applications it has, which milestones have been achieved, and what is planned for the future.
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Article #4 of Connectivity and Sensing in Harsh Environments Series: Cars, Construction Equipment, Trucks, Buses, Airplanes, Trains, and other vehicles require connectors that withstand vibrations, shocks, humidity, dust, and other unfavorable conditions to perform reliably.
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What happens when the radio connection to a drone is interrupted? How can drones fly autonomously even in congested traffic? These and other questions were addressed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in the final phase of its City Air Traffic Management (City-ATM) project.
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Highly automated and autonomous driving are getting ever nearer to becoming a reality. This technology holds the potential to make transport systems safer, more efficient and more convenient.
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The ROboMObil (ROMO) has been transferring space research to the road since 2011. The project began a few years earlier at the DLR when researchers at the Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC) had the idea to combine rover technology developed for Mars and lunar vehicles with electric mobility.
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In this episode, we talk about some of our favorite projects from Wevolver’s Student Researcher Program ranging from hydrogen powered cars and planes, a novel approach for battery recycling, and an innovative machine for boring new tunnels for hyperloop systems.
Taking a dive into the future of transportation
Wireless-enhanced personal transport solutions are changing post-pandemic citywide transport and creating new business opportunities.
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SMART researchers explore the potential of e-scooter sharing as a replacement for short-distance transit in Singapore.
Determined to build the world’s most powerful two-stroke engine, Protolabs is giving this self-proclaimed “normal guy with an obsession with two-stroke engines” a helping hand.
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Theory-based residual neural network combines discrete choice models and deep neural networks, long viewed as conflicting methods.
The first car my family had during my childhood was a 1967 Hillman Hunter built by the Hillman Motor Car Company in Coventry, England. In case you are a bit shocked about the year…...where I grew up, we got cars that had already been out for a while. I am old but not THAT old.
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In this episode, we talk about how DeepMind’s AlphaFold algorithm solved protein folding, NASA JPL’s partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to better protect firefighters, and a trial for autonomous shuttles in DTU that can change the transportation infrastructure of the whole country
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