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#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 1¼-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)

#AI models deployed in embedded systems at edge | Brushless DC motors | Hall effect sensors | Optical encoders | Sensorless motor control | Field-oriented control | Artificial intelligence at edge | Three fundamental modalities: vision, sound, and motion | Using AI models to infer information about device environment | Linear algorithms | Software and hardware combination | Deploying multiple AI models in embedded devices requires edge processors designed to run AI | Embedded systems using AI can be considered open | Sensor fusion utilizes combined data from multiple sensors | AI-based vision systems are more adaptable to natural variations inherent in object inspection | Objects can be identified and inspected more quickly with greater flexibility | Strong multimodal AI, a single model will process multiple types of data | Control algorithms will use inputs generated by AI, inferred from multiple sources of data | AI inferencing in data flow | AI-enabled image sensors are perfect for gesture detection | Event detection based on sound is an active area of development | On device learning in real time

#Immediate.Measures to Increase American Mineral Production

#Critical minerals in Artificial Intelligence | At the core of AI transformation lies a complex ecosystem of critical minerals, each playing a distinct role | Boron: used to alter electrical properties of silicon | Silicon: fundamental material used in most semiconductors and integrated circuits | Phosphorus: helps establish the alternating p-n junctions necessary for creating transistors and integrated circuits | Cobalt: used in metallisation processes of semiconductor manufacturing | Copper: primary conductor in integrated circuits | Gallium: used in compound semiconductors such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) | Germanium: used in high-speed integrated circuits and fibre-optic technologies | Arsenic: employed as a dopant in silicon-based semiconductors | Indium phosphide: widely used in optical communications | Palladium: used in production of multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) | Silver: the most conductive metal used in specialised integrated circuits and circuit boards | Tungsten: serves as a key material in transistors and as a contact metal in chip interconnects | Gold: used in bonding wires, connectors, and contact pads in chip packaging | Europium: enables improved performance in lasers, LEDs, and high-frequency electronics essential to AI systems and optical networks | Yttrium: improves the efficiency and stability of materials like GaN and InP, supporting advanced applications in photonics, high-speed computing, and communications technologies

#Critical minerals for Optics, Imaging & Advanced Materials | Graphite: high-speed electronics, advanced sensors, and thermal management systems | Copper: short-distance data transmission in AI data centres | Germanium: a key material in thermal imaging, night-vision optics, and fibre-optic communication systems | Indium: optical communication systems | Praseodymium: specific types of lasers and optical materials | Neodymium:solid-state lasers | Holmium: specialised laser systems, particularly medical and scientific applications

#Critical minerals for Power Supply & Batteries | Lithium: portable electronics, wearables, electric vehicles | Graphite: stores lithium ions during charging process and releases them during discharge | Manganese: used in various lithium-ion battery chemistries | Cobalt: critical to the performance of premium mobile and computing devices | Nickel: crucial for electric vehicles, high-performance electronics, and energy-intensive AI systems