Stress-only imaging: Faster, cheaper, less radiation. So what’s the hold up?

Roving Faster Farther Cheaper

Current Mars rovers travel a few kilometers per year. Future rovers will need to travel a couple orders of magnitude faster than that in order to move from safe landing zones to areas of scientific interest – which may be many 10s of kilometers away from a suitable landing location. This paper describes a recent field test of the SR-II rover. SR-II is a 22kg solar powered autonomous rover, whic...

Developing More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper

Create Better , Faster , Cheaper Designs for FPGAs

With the advent of ever-larger FPGAs, both software algorithm developers and hardware designers must become more productive. Given the frequent lack of resources (time, money, developers) and often unmanageable complexity, today’s complex software systems require an increase in abstraction level. A new generation of methodologies that describe algorithms at a level higher than RTL are collectiv...

Screen idols: faster, smaller, cheaper and smarter.

Faster, cheaper, safer optical tweezers for the undergraduate laboratory

A tightly focused beam of light can attract and trap micron-sized dielectric particles whose refractive index exceeds that of the surrounding medium. Although single-beam optical traps were developed only in 1986, they have already proven their worth in making possible an increasing number of experiments. Optical traps have found particular use in biophysics, where they allow one to manipulate ...