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Autonomous military robots

In an earlier blog, ‘ A robot in every home ‘, I commented on some of the issues related to the development of robotics software, in particular in relation to open standards and...

18 years 1 month ago

Keeping current with A&D conferences

I seem to receive so much email these days, much of it spam and junk (wikipedia), that sometimes I miss information that I want to receive. Also, some of my email volume is self...

18 years 1 month ago

Airborne control of UAV swarms

I was listening to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme before breakfast this morning, when I was surprised to hear a story about aerospace developments make mainstream news. A BBC...

18 years 2 months ago

Avionics 2007 Amsterdam

In my previous post I mentioned that I was heading off to Amsterdam for the Avionics 2007 event, so I thought I should post some comments on the exhibition and conference. The...

18 years 2 months ago

"Long ago, in a Galaxy far, far away"... perhaps not so far?

Can a planet exist such that you might see two "suns" setting each "night" ? It appears the answer is: yes. Bear with me… there’s a press from NASA / CalTech / JPL below that’s...

18 years 2 months ago

ARINC653 software weighs less

I’m about to head off to the airport for Avionics 2007 in Amsterdam. I’m really looking forward to hearing the latest developments in civil and military avionics at conference...

18 years 3 months ago

Test as you... surprise!

There’s an old adage in the world of flight – space flight, or otherwise. "Test as you fly, fly as you test." It’s pretty short and sweet and straight-forward. Don’t fly what you...

18 years 3 months ago

Eclipse - Babel fish for engineers?

In the recent blog More Eclipse News , Alex Wilson commented on how Eclipse is becoming increasingly pervasive throughout the software development life cycle. Alex mentioned that...

18 years 3 months ago

More Eclipse news

Following on from my last blog , I see that RTI has also joined the Eclipse Framework . This bring to the Eclipse life cycle model RTI ‘s excellent tool for looking at distributed...

18 years 3 months ago

RTLinux acquisition from FSMLabs

I was really pleased to see the news about Wind River’s acquisition of RTLinux hard real-time Linux (ZDnet) from FSMLabs. Linux is already starting to be used in certain types of...

18 years 3 months ago