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Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005
John Keller |
KVH Fiber-Optic Gyros Help Guide Remotely Operated Vehicles Through the Seas With their all-fiber design and patented digital signal processing (DSP) technology, KVH's FOGs offer reliability, accuracy, and resistance to vibration, shock, and acceleration.   |
InternetNews
October 10, 2005
Roy Mark |
Stanford's Stanley Wins Off-Road Prize The driverless Volkswagon powers past Carnegie Mellon's entry to win $2 million first prize in the Pentagon's driverless vehicle challenge. |
National Defense
March 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
KVH Gains $1.1 Million Order for Fiber-Optic Gyros for U.S. Military Simulators The company won the order for its DSP-3000 fiber-optic gyros from a U.S. military customer. KVH's compact FOGs will be used for real-time image synchronization and stabilization in military training simulator systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004 |
Military Fiber-Optic Gyro Orders Awarded to KVH KVH Industries Inc. received orders worth $1.2 million for the company's fiber-optic gyro systems involving defense related applications such as stabilization and pointing of remote gun turrets and precision navigation and guidance. |
Fast Company
December 2008
Tim McKeough |
The Caterpillar Self-Driving Dump Truck The Caterpillar truck will soon have a mind of its own. Working with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the industrial titan is developing self-driven large-haul trucks for use at BHP Billiton's mine sites -- no human required. |
National Defense
December 2007
Grace Jean |
What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition. |
Wired
March 2004
Douglas McGray |
The Great Robot Race Unmanned aerial vehicles are for wimps. 20 driverless bots are about to get down and dirty in the Pentagon's million-dollar rumble from L.A. to Las Vegas. Start your engines. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
Raytheon Selects KVH Navigation Unit for Torpedoes Raytheon ordered the fiber-optic gyro (FOG)-based TG-6000 precision inertial measurement unit (IMU) for the guidance system of the U.S. Navy's next-generation MK54 lightweight torpedoes. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Hard Drive In the past year, the robotics community has learned a great deal about how to make cars drive themselves. Recently, computer algorithms showed that cars might just be ready to take the wheel without human chaperones. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2007
Erik Sofge Render |
DARPA's Robot Car Race Hits the City: 2007 Preview (with Video) A cross between a DMV driving test and a rally, this year's race promises to be DARPA's most complex yet. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2006
Steve Russell |
Stanley, Stanford University's Robot Car - DARPA Grand Winner The race: 132 miles. 23 vehicles. 0 drivers. Stanley, a VW Touareg, wins the race of the century (so far). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2009 |
Frontline Robotics Keeps Unmanned Security Vehicles on Track with KVH Fiber-Optic Gyros Securing large areas such as airport perimeters and container yards is an increasingly dangerous task, and Frontline Robotics is working to make it safer for human security personnel by designing unmanned vehicles to patrol these spaces. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
Bob Scannell |
MEMs-Based Gyros Offer New Options for Precision Guidance The maturing of gyro technology based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in the last few years has lead some systems designers to re-examine their approach to guidance-system design. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Daniel H. Wilson |
DARPA's Tough New Robot Road Test A robot expert explains why DARPA's previous robotic races were GPS-guided cakewalks compared to the upcoming Urban Challenge. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006
Michael Arndt |
"Red" Whittaker: A Man And His Robots William "Red" Whittaker created the technology to let robots work far from the assembly line. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
John Voelcker |
Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge Six of 11 autonomous vehicles finish 90-kilometer course with no major accidents. |
National Defense
December 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Army, Marine Corps In Pursuit of Robotic Convoy Systems As part of its modernization plan, the Army is funding several ground robotics programs ranging from small, remotely controlled explosive ordnance disposal units to large autonomous tactical wheeled vehicles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2007 |
U.S. Army TACOM Chooses KVH TACNAV Navigation Systems for Combat Vehicles TACNAV delivers precise navigation, heading, and pointing data to vehicle drivers, crews, and commanders in various military environments. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Erik Sofge |
3 New Farm Bots Programmed to Pick, Plant and Drive Researchers say the key to the future of industrial farm robots is keeping costs down by adapting existing commercial vehicles instead of building new ones. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
U.S. Army Tank and Automotive Command to use KVH's TACNAV Vehicle Navigation Systems TACNAV supports U.S. and allied warfighters in a wide range of demanding military environments, offering vehicle navigation, integration with digital battlefield management systems, and precision stabilization and pointing. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Carnegie Mellon "In A Crisis" After Uber Poached 40 Of Its Researchers The Wall Street Journal says that the robotics center at Carnegie Mellon is "scrambling to recover" after the ride-hailing company Uber hired 40 of its scientists. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. |
National Defense
June 2015
Allyson Versprille |
Army Still Determining Best Use for Driverless Vehicles The Army's effort to introduce unmanned vehicles into its inventory has slowed as the service's budget tightens and questions remain on how the technology will be used. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2005 |
Optoelectronics briefs Santa Barbara Infrared delivers optical test equipment... Army picks EOIR Technologies for surveillance prototypes... Pulse generator for high-resolution military photonic applications...KVH to upgrade optical navigation systems... Blue-violet laser-diode modules... etc. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2006
M.D. Mitchell |
TV on the Fly KVH Industries makes a splash with its mobile satellite TV systems. With a forward P/E somewhere around 30, this stock isn't cheap. But if it continues to deliver innovative problem-solving technologies, this company might be worth watching. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2007 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Molex introduces quad small-form-factor pluggable devices... Extreme releases UFLED night-vision performance bundle... KVH fiber-optic gyro-based inertial measurement units added to U.S. Navy's MK54 torpedoes...etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Dual-wavelength focal-plane array in development... Double-clad ytterbium fiber available for fiber-laser applications...Ultraviolet refractive beam shaper unveiled... Navy picks supplier for optoelectronic sensor systems... Air Force awards contract for high-power fiber amplifier... etc. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2007 |
Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing Yahoo will launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Google Is Outfitting Carnegie Mellon With Smart Tech To Create A "Living Lab" The university will essentially become a petri dish for Google's Internet of Things technology. |
