108 Show report | Xponential Commercial Part 2 military vehicle and had to survive submergence in 1 m of water – a tough requirement we were able to meet and exceed. To that end, both Donati and Cernis have waterproof, mil-spec 38999 connectors,” Mannik said. “Second, many users leveraging an NVIDIA Orin ECU will connect multiple Orins together via Ethernet to create greater performance, but we networked ours via PCIe, leveraging our core competency in high-speed PCIe design. “Hence, Cernis functions as a big PCIe switch, like a top-rack Ethernet switch, but 256 times faster. That high speed and low latency removed a serious glitching problem the end-user suffered every time one of their cameras moved.” Nicomatic spoke with us about its CMM modular connectors, which have been developed as a highly customisable solution for overlapping connector requirements. “The CMM connector can integrate power, signal and coaxial contacts in a small form factor, reducing the total number of connectors per PCB, and hence the weight and cost across such boards,” said Nicholas Wojtusik at Nicomatic. “Up to 12 high-power contacts can fit per row, with up to two rows of those special contacts, or if it’s all signal pins then up to 120 contacts in three rows can fit in a connector, derated to 3 A. So any combination of those two extremes is possible. There is maybe up to 60 million different forms the CMM can come in to fit different users’ needs, covering not just pin permutations but features like blind-mating and others, and they can be available anywhere from two to five weeks, depending on volumes.” Most recently, the CMM series has begun integrating high-speed SMPM data contacts from France-based Radiall. The resulting CMM SMPM-Series connectors enable high-speed signal transmissions of up to 40 GHz and 50 GB/s, with up to 10 such pins being able to fit on a single row in each connector. “Those pins are also compatible with the other hardware designs in the CMM series, so they can be through-hole, surface-mount, right-angled, straight, cable-to-cable and so on, housed in a high-temperature thermoplastic that can function in environments up to 260 C, down to -50 C,” Wojtusik added. UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía talked to us about the nineth version of its VECTOR autopilot software. It has been developed to expand customers’ portfolios of mission applications with improved complex swarm, synchronised and coordinated flight operations via intercommunications and telemetry exchanging among multiple UAVs in flight. “We have also enhanced its GNSSdenied navigation capabilities for precision in real contested environments, and enabled control of uncrewed vehicles from onboard crewed platforms and from multiple GCSs, facilitating seamless GCS handovers,” said Miguel Angel de Frutos Carro at UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía. “The flight-control system now includes key functionalities such as mission replanning with autonomous recalculation of flight paths to avoid unauthorised or geofences air zones.” The new version of VECTOR supports 4D trajectory executions for automatic and precise arrivals at specific waypoints within predefined timeframes; a key capability in applications including target drones and package-delivery UAVs. August/September 2024 | Uncrewed Systems Technology One of Nicomatic’s CMM series connectors UAV Navigation has updated its autopilots for improved complex swarming
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