Software and hardware have a “chicken and egg” relationship – one really can’t work without the other. In Steve Leibsen’s blog, he talks about getting more capacity through multi-core based systems. That’s the hardware side of the equation, now let’s look at software to make realtime industrial control function. Ethernet was born of a PhD Dissertation by Robert Metcalf in the early 1970s. Xerox PARC, center of many new computing technologies, develope...Read More
Ultrasound is one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in modern medicine. In the late 1970s ultrasound required specially trained physicians to interpret the results from technically driven analog equipment. Some research equipment featured realistic two dimensional grey scale images, but the complexity and excessive tuning requirements to keep the equipment functioning correctly restricted its use to very specialized applications. Nevertheless, the benefits in diagnostics, especially in g...Read More
Industrial and military robots come in all shapes and sizes, tethered and untethered, autonomous or human operated, and designed for many different environments. But no matter how advanced robots are today, we’re still a long way from having a humanoid robot from science fiction. Where do you start in assembling a practical military (or industrial) robot? As with any engineering task, we need a set of objectives and a mission, which in turn defines the capabilitie...Read More
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