Design and Development

Design and Development

Feature Articles

Parasoft Embedded Debuts the Next-Generation of Embedded and Real-Time Systems Quality Solution

Parasoft Embedded now delivers support for ARM RVDS to help deliver greater productivity and significantly fewer software defects.

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Aethon Enhances TUG Navigation System with Advanced Laser Vision Technology

Pittsburgh, PA based Aethon has enhanced the laser-based technology within their TUG autonomous mobile robots.  The new technology increases sensing accuracy and obstacle detection capabilities, allowing the tugs to run 33 percent faster and better navigate open, busy spaces, such as hospital atriums or lobbies, in addition to narrow corridors and elevators.

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Opinions

NIST Measures Performance of Auto Crash Warning Systems

Truck cab have been instrumented for NIST tests of collision warning systems.  The preliminary tests of prototype collision detection systems have revealed both potential benefits of the systems and areas that need improvement

Vendor Spotlight

Gostai Urbi Technical Training Session Announced

Paris based Gostai is running a 2 day advanced technical training session for the Universal Real-time Behavior Interface (Urbi), a powerful parallel script engine coupled with the UObject component architecture.  Urbi, which has been employed in the development of many robots and robotic products, is used to control hardware and software components in a flexible and portable way.  The session is to run September 29-30, 2008 in Paris, France.

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