Category: Technology
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Fusing Sensors to Make a Smarter Driving Experience
Last April, a RAND report suggested that it would be nearly impossible to drive enough miles to prove the safety benefits of autonomous vehicles..It suggested that alternatives, such as simulations, would be needed to supplement the real-world conditions. The answer to part of this challenge may lie with video games. It may not be the actual…
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Autonomous Vehicles Staying the Course with a Fiber Gyro #AVS16
Redundancy of inputs might be the secret sauce that will lead to the expected safety improvements of autonomous transportation. In the above interview, Sean McCormack, Director, FOG/OEM Sales for KVH Industries, talks about KVH’s inertial sensor as a way for an autonomous vehicle to understand where it is at all times, even, in those cases…
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HOTi Summary Part II. SDN & NFV Impact on Interconnects & Cloud Orchestration Lacking
Introduction: This article summarizes the HOTi August 26th keynote presentation from SDx Central’s Roy Chua. The impact of SDN, NFV and other Software Defined WAN/ open networking schemes on Interconnects (for intra-Data Center (DC) communications) are described along with Roy’s conclusions. Mr. Chua described the emerging trends, hot topics and the impact SDe will have on interconnect…
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HOT Interconnects (HOTi) Summary- Part I. Building Large Scale Data Center Networks
The annual IEEE Hot Interconnects conference was held August 24-25, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA. We review selected presentations in a series of conference summary articles. In this Part I. piece, we focus on design considerations for large-scale Data Centers (DCs) that are operated by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
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Automation Will Be a Continuum
“You will need all of them”, says Dr. Louay Eldada. Eldada, CEO of Quanergy was referring to the idea of fusing multiple types of sensors together to paint a complete picture of a vehicle’s environment. This picture Eldada describes is one that is more crisp and extensive (360 degree view) than what a human could see. Quanergy’s…
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Keeping Humans in the Loop in Autonomous Vehicles
Editor’s Note: A couple of years ago I let my imagination run wild when trying to piece together what Google’s end-game would be with the autonomous car. The resulting article led to an introduction with many experts in the field, including one of the early pioneers in bringing automony and mobility together. Award winning car…