Posts Tagged ‘2011’
AUTOS: Top Technologies Of 2011
by dharder9475We’ll likely look back on 2011 as the year that the app truly entered our automobiles, becoming integrated with our Bluetooth-connected smart phones and in some cases, fully integrated with vehicle infotainment systems.
In looking for the top tech stories of 2011, we fought the urge to simply rattle off a series of apps. By themselves, they’re hardly the technology, although put together with the carefully designed and innovative in-car interfaces, such as GM’s upcoming CUE, connectivity is the year’s top tech story.
There is lots more, although much of it is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Mechanically, the auto industry largely continued some trends that have been underway for several years. Turbocharging became more common, direct-injection engines continued to proliferate the market, and transmissions gained gears, with seven- and eight-speed units no longer eyebrow-raising; there’s even word that a 10 speed is being developed.
Electrification of the vehicle is underway, but with electric cars and hybrids remaining such a small piece of the pie, it’s going to be a sluggish start.
Another key thread of the year is the advancement of safety-tech and accident-avoidance features into their second or third generations, with… Continue reading
Multimedia Robotics To Automation: 2011 Robotics Conference
by If you study, work, teach, or do research in the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, robotics and automation, you will be interested in the upcoming Robotics Conference, the 16th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, on June 1 3, 2011, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dr. Ing Kimon Valavanis of the University of Denver, USA will be chairing the Robotics Conference. Dr. Valavanis is currently Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, acting chair of the Computer Science Department, and Director of the Denver University Unmanned Systems Laboratory, which he established. He is also Guest Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Telecommunications, University of Zagreb Croatia.
Dr. Valavanis’ research interests are in the areas of Unmanned Systems, Distributed Intelligence Systems, Robotics and Automation, where he is very widely published. His co-authored projects include Intelligent Robotic Systems: Theory, Design and Applications; Control Problems in Robotics and Automation; Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Programming and Control, and most recently Linear and Nonlinear Control of Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopters.
An IASTED Robotics conference has representatives from over 30 countries, with researchers working across a wide range… Continue reading
AUTOS: Top Technologies Of 2011
by Bi()ha2arDWe’ll likely look back on 2011 as the year that the app truly entered our automobiles, becoming integrated with our Bluetooth-connected smart phones and in some cases, fully integrated with vehicle infotainment systems.
In looking for the top tech stories of 2011, we fought the urge to simply rattle off a series of apps. By themselves, they’re hardly the technology, although put together with the carefully designed and innovative in-car interfaces, such as GM’s upcoming CUE, connectivity is the year’s top tech story.
There is lots more, although much of it is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Mechanically, the auto industry largely continued some trends that have been underway for several years. Turbocharging became more common, direct-injection engines continued to proliferate the market, and transmissions gained gears, with seven- and eight-speed units no longer eyebrow-raising; there’s even word that a 10 speed is being developed.
Electrification of the vehicle is underway, but with electric cars and hybrids remaining such a small piece of the pie, it’s going to be a sluggish start.
Another key thread of the year is the advancement of safety-tech and accident-avoidance features into their second or third generations, with… Continue reading