Micro Air Vehicle

Ascending Technologies, Germany / MIT, Boston, USA

These two institutions jointly developed an autononomous Indoor MAV (Micro Air Vehicle), controlled by a CoreExpress^®-ECO module on a custom carrier board.

Automated Rail Flaw Detector

• MEDUSA Ltd -- ADS-02, An Automated Rail Flaw Detector

By Alexander M. Reyman

Rail fractures account for 30% of damages and wrecks in rail track facilities, as the picture shows. To avoid these damages, the rails can be inspected using several methods, all with their own advantages and problems, as shown in the table.

Onboard networks of autonomous underwater vehicles

By Aleksandr Inzartsev and Oleg Lvov

Designing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is a basic line of activity at the Institute of Marine Technology Problems (IMTP), Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Compact vehicles developed at the IMTP are intended mainly for

Balloon-borne optical spectrometer

• Institut für Umweltphysik (IUP), University of Heidelberg, Germany

The research at IUP-Heidelberg addresses the composition, photochemistry, and climate of the lower (troposphere) and middle atmosphere (stratosphere).