#Unmanned System | Development
#Air Launched UAV
#Long Shot UAV
#Unmanned Underwater Systems
#Unmanned Helicopter
#Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
#UAV
#Interoperatibility
#Robot Operating System
#Autonomy
#Agility
#Versatility
#Multi Mission Capability
#Maximising Operation Time
#Remote Mission Control
#Fuel Cell Power
#Hydrogen Cartridge
#Hydrogen Magazine
#LH2 Power
#Liquid Hydrogen Power
#Network Centric Operation
#Lidar
#Gimbal
#5G Communication
#Cloud Connectivity
#Artificial Intelligence
#Swarm Flying
#Autonomous Navigation
#Autonomous Flying
#Interoperatively
#Night Operation Ability
#Collaboration With Manned Systems
#Angular resolution
#1550nm LiDAR | Advantages: safety, range, and performance in various environmental conditions | Enhanced Eye Safety: absorbed more efficiently by cornea and lens of eye, preventing light from reaching sensitive retina | Longer Detection Range | Improved Performance in Adverse Weather Conditions such as as fog, rain, or dust | Reduced Interference from Sunlight and Other Light Sources | More expensive due to complexity and lower production volumes of their components
#SLAM | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
#Ultra sonic piezo motor
#Agentic workflow
#Vector database
#AI-augmented drone
#Unmanned submarines capable to destroy undersea cable infrastructure
#Unmanned systems being developed that would patrol undersea cables
#Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology | onsemi Treo platform to provide embedded non-volatile memory | ReRAM integration into Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process | Potential alternative to flash memory | Demand for faster, more efficient, and scalable memory solutions increasing | Lower power consumption | Less vulnerable to common hacking tactics | ReRAM can be integrated easily into chip designs without interfering with power analog components
#A-list celebrity home protector | Burglaries targeting high-end items | Burglary report on Lime Orchard Road | Burglar had smashed glass door of residence | Ransacked home and fled | Couple were not home at the time | Unknown whether any items were taken | Lime Orchard Road is within Hidden Valley gated community of Los Angeles in Beverly Hills | Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lawrence, Adele and Katy Perry have purchased homes there, in addition to Kidman and Urban | Kidman and Urban bought their home for $4.7 million in 2008 | 4,100-square-foot, five-bedroom home built in 1965 and sits on 1ΒΌ-acre lot | Property large windows have views of the canyons | Theirs is one of several celebrity properties burglarized in Los Angeles and across country recently | Connected to South American organized-theft rings
#Professional athlete home protector | South American crime rings | Targeting wealthy Southern California neighborhoods for sophisticated home burglaries | Behind burglaries at homes of professional athletes and celebrities | Theft groups conduct extensive research before plotting burglaries | Monitoring target whereabouts and weekly routines via social media | Tracking travel and schedules | Conducting physical surveillance at homes | Attacks staged while targets and their families are away | Robbers aware of where valuables are stored in homes prior to staging break-ins | Burglaries conducted in short amount of time | Bypass alarm systems | Use Wi-Fi jammers to block Wi-Fi connections | Disable devices | Cover security cameras | Obfuscate identities
#Space Domain Awareness (SDA)
#Modern counter-drone systems
#High-energy laser systems
#Remote weapons stations
#Optical surveillance
#High energy laser capabilities
#Optical manufacturing
#Space control
#Software control systems
#Space control programs
#ROS 2 | The second version of the Robot Operating System | Communication, compatibility with other operating systems | Authentication and encryption mechanisms | Works natively on Linux, Windows, and macOS | Fast RTPS based on DDS (Data Distribution Service) | Programming languages: C++, Python, Rust
#Dexterous robot | Manipulate objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Dexterity involves fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity is crucial in: manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enables automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision
#Large Language Model (LLM) | Foundational LLM: ex Wikipedia in all its languages fed to LLM one word at a time | LLM is trained to predict the next word most likely to appear in that context | LLM intellugence is based on its ability to predict what comes next in a sentence | LLMs are amazing artifacts, containing a model of all of language, on a scale no human could conceive or visualize | LLMs do not apply any value to information, or truthfulness of sentences and paragraphs they have learned to produce | LLMs are powerful pattern-matching machines but lack human-like understanding, common sense, or ethical reasoning | LLMs produce merely a statistically probable sequence of words based on their training | LLMs are very good at summarizing | Inappropriate use of LLMs as search engines has produced lots of unhappy results | LLM output follows path of most likely words and assembles them into sentences | Pathological liars as a source for information | Incredibly good at turning pre-existing information into words | Give them facts and let them explain or impart them
#Retrieval Augmented Generation. (RAG LLM) | Designed for answering queries in a specific subject, for example, how to operate a particular appliance, tool, or type of machinery | LLM takes as much textual information about subject, user manuals and then pre-process it into small chunks containing few specific facts | When user asks question, software system identifies chunk of text which is most likely to contain answer | Question and answer are then fed to LLM, which generates human-language answer in response to query | Enforcing factualness on LLMs
#Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant | Moscow open to three-way cooperation with the U.S. and Ukraine regarding the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant | The largest nuclear plant in Europe | Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia Oblast town | Not currently generating electricity | Plant status likely playing a role in an eventual settlement in Ukraine | U.S. offered to operate and possibly own the nuclear power plant to ensure its protection | Electricity proposed to be distributed to both Ukraine and Russia |
#Drones for industrial inspection and analysis | Confined space inspection | Collision and crash resistant inspection drone | 3D mapping | Volumetric measurement | Inspections of cargo ships, bridges, ports, steel mills cement factories, liquid gas tanks, nuclear facilities, city wide underground sewage systems | Ouster lidar | Elios 3 completed turbine blade inspection in just 27 minutes - it would take over 2 hours with rover and up to 2 days with person | Elios 3 could fly into each of turbine blades without having to reposition it to inspect either side of shear webs | Global Wind Energy Council: over 341,000 wind turbines installed across planet | Wind turbines are very high up in confined spaces | Specialized training required from Global Wind Organization | Inspections for wind turbines are focused on detecting either manufacturing faults or lightning damage | Lightning Protection System may not be properly configured | Destroyed wind turbine blade can cost $1 million to repair | Wind turbines have 3 blades, which need to be individually inspected | When person completes inspection, each blade being inspected needs to be pitched horizontally | I0nspections of entire wind turbine can take 5 to 9 days using persons | Turbine programmed to pitch 2 blades upwards, at positions matching 10 and 2 on clock | Upturned angles important in case problem with drone, it would roll safely back down | Elios 3 flown into each blade | 4K camera to gather visual data and take photos of potential problems as well as suspected lightning damage | FlyAware live LiDAR scan used when drone out of sight | LiDAR point cloud helped pilot determine how far had flown drone into blade | 27 minutes - 3 flights each blade with the Elios 3 | Visual data from Elios 3 showed damage inside blade not visible externally and also not easy to access | Individual blade may take over a day using persons or rovers | Rovers require each blade to be pitched horizontally, like with inspections by people, taking 2 hours per half of the blade (totaling 4 hours per blade)