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Autel Robotics. Autel Robotics Co., Ltd. is a Chinese aerial drone manufacturer.

History 
Autel Robotics Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 in Shenzhen by Maxwell Lee and Li Hongjing. Maxwell Lee is a Chinese American entrepreneur.

Autel Robotics has received government funding and support from the Chinese government. The company released its first drone called X-Star in 2015 in global markets and has other notable product lines, including the Evo and Dragon Fish series.

In 2021 Autel Robotics had a 7% share of the UAV market in the United States. Its market share increased after leading rival DJI was restricted by the US government. Along with DJI their drones have been widely acquired by US law enforcement and government agencies. Concerns have frequently been raised about potential risks associated with this use, but significant evidence of risk has not been presented and there is criticism of those concerns.

In 2023 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Autel Robotics made its intention to surpass DJI in both technology and market share known.

Organization 
Autel Robotics Co., Ltd. used to be a subsidiary of Autel Intelligent Technology but was spun-off prior to Autel Intelligent Technology's IPO.

In 2023 Autel Robotics had offices in China, Italy, the United States, Germany, and Singapore. The company's branch in the U.S. is located in Seattle.

Products 

EVO Nano+, ultra-light drone
EVO Lite, light drone with a 4k camera. Small enough that a FAA remote ID is not required
EVO Lite +, light drone with a 5k camera
Autel EVO II V3, most popular model in 2023
Autel EVO Max, intended for the emergency response market
EVO Max T4, intended to be a serious competitor to DJI's offering. It has increased autonomy, AI features, and an open architecture. Features a thermal camera as standard.
Dragonfish, fixed wing drone with VTOL capabilities
Dragonfish Lite, smaller version of the Dragonfish
Dragonfish Pro, a long range variant of the Dragonfish

Users 
 U.S. Capitol Police, briefly operated Autel Robotics drones before being retired due to security concerns. The adoption of the drones was criticized by Senator Ted Cruz

References 

Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers of China
Manufacturing companies based in Shenzhen
Chinese companies established in 2014
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2014
Chinese brands
Picotron. Picotron is a virtual machine and desktop environment created by Lexaloffle Games. It is a fantasy workstation that is aimed at making retro style video games and mimics the specifications of 16-bit computers of the late 1980s. It is said to be a successor to PICO-8 and Voxatron. The Alpha release of Picotron became available on March 14 (Pi Day), 2024.

It has a virtual toy operating system and built in tools that allow software development, game development and customization of the system itself. It runs on top of Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, with support for Raspberry Pi and export to stand-alone binaries or Web apps planned. Similarly to PICO-8, programs made with Picotron can be shared directly with other Picotron users in a special 256k png cartridge format.

Capabilities

Picotron has an embedded Lua editor compatible with both PICO-8 and Lua 5.4 syntax. It supports 480x270 or 240x135 screen modes with default 32 system colors and 64 definable colors in total. For audio, it has 64-node synth and a 8-channel tracker.

All of the software for Picotron are written in Lua and can be edited from within the machine itself. System tools including the file browser, code editor and the terminal are implemented in userland, compiled just-in-time therefore changes in source code get into effect immediately. Custom tools can be created from scratch that run in fullscreen workspaces alongside the bundled editors. These additions and the subsequent shift in focus of the machine give Picotron the title of 'Workstation' rather than 'Console'.

Picotron is backward compatible with PICO-8 cartridges but the backward compatibility remains partial due to the virtual machine difference especially depending on the point math behavior.

Development
Development of Picotron started as early as 2017 when Joseph White, who is better known with his nickname Zep and his company Lexaloffle, developed an SFX editor for Voxatron, his second console along with PICO-8. Around that time he was asked if he considers developing a PICO-16, to which he replied that he would not consider working on a third console. In 2018 he mentioned that in his free time he "designed a PICO-16 just to remind himself to not make that" and that "PICO-16 does not work at all". PICO-8 community expressed great interest in the possibility of a 16-bit fantasy console, which convinced Zep to develop a third console that he dubbed Machine 3. He announced Machine 3 to be Picotron next day on June 16, 2021.

Zep started to work openly on Picotron after its announcement, occasionally sharing updates via his Twitter account and Lexaloffle BBS blog where he got suggestions and feedbacks from the community. On 31 December 2022, Zep announced Picotron Playground, an early web based version of Picotron's runtime and API for users to test the base features. On March 14, 2024, he released the first alpha version of Picotron available for purchase.

See also
TIC-80

References

External links
Official Picotron page
Zep's X account

Fantasy video game consoles
Virtual machines
Lua (programming language)-scriptable game engines
Game engines for Linux
Rajnish Kumar (chemical engineer). Rajnish Kumar is an Indian chemical engineer who specialises in clathrate hydrates and gas hydrates. He is a professor in the department of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2022. 

In 2018, Clarivate Analytics named him as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of engineering. He received the NASI–Scopus Young Scientist Award for the year 2016.

References

External links 

1977 births
Living people
Indian chemical engineers
Academic staff of IIT Madras
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
Rangan Banerjee. Rangan Banerjee currently holds the position of Director at IIT Delhi. As of February 2022, he is on lien from IIT Bombay, where he was the Forbes Marshall Chair Professor in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, a department he contributed to founding in 2007. His expertise encompasses energy management, system modeling, energy planning, policy, hydrogen energy, and fuel cells.

Academic career
Prof Banerjee is an editorial board member for several international journals, including the International Journal of Sustainable Energy and International Journal of Thermodynamics. He played a pivotal role in establishing a megawatt-scale Solar Thermal Power Testing and Research Facility funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). He also advises Team Shunya, the first Indian student team to reach the Solar Decathlon Europe finals. Prof. Banerjee has provided counsel to city and state energy entities, Niti Aayog, and MNRE on energy topics and has collaborated with various national and international companies.

In the past, he served as the Dean (R&D) at IIT Bombay, where he received the Excellence in Teaching Award and is recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Additionally, Prof. Banerjee holds an honorary adjunct faculty position in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
IIT Bombay alumni
Indian Institute of Technology directors
Academic staff of IIT Delhi
Indian academic administrators
Heads of universities and colleges in India
21st-century Indian educators
Indian academics
Gyan Johari. Gyan P. Johari was a British-Canadian engineering researcher. He was a Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University.  Johari is best known for his contributions to the state of liquids and the Johari–Goldstein relaxation.

Career
While teaching in New York City, Johari collaborated with Martin Goldstein in studying the state of liquids. Together, they discovered a dynamical process in viscous liquids and in the glassy state of polar liquids. Their research into a universal property of glasses and certain other disordered materials was published as the Johari–Goldstein relaxation. After joining the faculty at McMaster University, Johari was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993. In 2007, Johari received an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin.

References

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of McMaster University
Canadian engineering researchers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
1940 births
Convair NC-131H Samaritan. The Convair NC-131H Samaritan, also known as the Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS), is a modified Convair C-131 Samaritan that was used to study aircraft handling characteristics. Built as a C-131B, the aircraft underwent extensive conversion and modification by the United States Air Force, NASA, Calspan and others from the late 1960s until the 2000s. TIFS' maiden flight was in 1970.

Design and development 
The aircraft, at the time, a C-131B transport, was modified with assistance from NASA, into the NC-131B Control Configured Vehicle, a variable stability aircraft. It would go on to experience further modification, being re-engined and re-designated as the NC-131H by the USAF Research Labs (AFRL). The "N" in the designation indicates that the aircraft had been permanently (ergo, extensively) modified. TIFS is hailed by Calspan as a "cost effective and efficient test-bed aircraft" with a "spacious cabin and replaceable nose." its use was intended for programs with large equipment needs. The TIFS is equipped with a removable, modular simulation cockpit.

The original piston engines were replaced by turboprop engines a second cockpit was added, and vertical fins were installed on the wings to provide side forces, simulating crosswinds to provide test data. The aircraft is owned by the Flight Dynamics Laboratory (FDL), but is operated and maintained by The Calspan Corporation (originally Cornell Aeronautical Labs).

According to Calspan, the computers onboard TIFS were designed for ease of programming allowing rapid turnaround and system changes. This is to increase the efficiency (and thus, profitability) of hosting and checkout of customer software. Since the simulation is not critical to safety of flight, changes can be made without extensive verification and validation, allowing onboard flight test engineers to reprogram the system in flight if necessary.

Operational history 
The TIFS first flew in 1970, and its first research project helped devise the B-1 bomber's flying characteristics. Over its 40-year career, the TIFS has been continuously modernized to simulate and aid in the development of many military, NASA, and Civilian aircraft, including the Boeing X-40, Northrop Tacit Blue, Space Shuttle, Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, Northrop YF-23, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Boeing SST, McDonnell Douglas MD-12 and IPTN N-250.

Engineers also utilize the TIFS for studying how large aircraft handle during critical phases of flight like takeoff and landing.

During the Martin Marietta Smart Weapons Program, TIFS was modified to replicate an intelligent cruise missile.

Aircraft on display 
In 2008, sole NC-131H was moved to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. As of 2024, the aircraft remains on display in the Air Park outside the museum.

Specifications

References 

Convair aircraft
William Lamie. William (Bill) Lamie (born 15 July 1961) is an American software engineer. He is known as the author of the Nucleus, ThreadX and PX5 real-time operating systems (RTOS).

Early life and education
Lamie was born in Hawaii and grew up in Southern California and then Michigan. Bill started his Computer Science studies at Central Michigan University (CMU). His father Edward Lamie was a Computer Science professor and department head at CMU, where he first realized that Computer Science was his passion. In 1985, he completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) degree from San Diego State University (SDSU).

Business career
Lamie's area of expertise within the field of Computer Science lies in real-time operating systems (RTOS). His interest in this field was sparked during his initial employment at Digital Wizards, a San Diego–based company. Digital Wizards provided the US Navy an RTOS called Executive Operating System (EXOS), of which he was a major contributor. After EXOS, he worked for Scientific Atlanta and then started consulting in the real-time, embedded arena.

Accelerated Technology (now part of Siemens)
In the late 1980s Lamie created the Nucleus RTOS and co-founded Accelerated Technology (ATI), which is now part of Siemens Embedded. The Nucleus RTOS comprised two variants, namely Nucleus RTX and Nucleus PLUS. Nucleus PLUS offered dynamic object creation/deletion capabilities and a more extensive range of functionality compared to Nucleus RTX. As of 2023, the Nucleus RTOS has been employed in approximately 3 billion devices. In 1995, he made the decision to depart from Accelerated Technology.

Express Logic (now part of Microsoft)
In 1997, Lamie created a new real-time operating system known as ThreadX and co-founded Express Logic, a software development company. In 2019, Microsoft acquired Express Logic, including the ThreadX technology. ThreadX gained recognition in the embedded industry for its advantages in terms of size, performance, and simplicity when compared to the Nucleus RTOS. According to VDC Research, ThreadX has been deployed in nearly 11 billion instances. Following the acquisition, Microsoft rebranded the technology as Azure RTOS.

PX5
In 2022, Lamie left Microsoft and introduced a new RTOS known as the PX5 RTOS. The PX5 RTOS differentiates itself from ThreadX by leveraging data encapsulation and Pointer/Data Verification (PDV) techniques, resulting in notable benefits in terms of size, speed, and security. Moreover, the PX5 RTOS features a native implementation of the POSIX pthreads API, an IEEE standard, enabling code sharing across embedded Linux platforms and reducing the need for additional engineering training. Subsequently, in January 2023, he established a new company named PX5.

References

Living people
American software engineers
1961 births
Paul Lloyd (RAF officer). Air Marshal Paul Harron Lloyd  is a senior Royal Air Force officer. He currently serves as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and Air Member for Personnel.

Early life and education
Lloyd studied mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester, graduating with a first class honours Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree. During his military service, he further studied for Master of Defence Administration (MDA) degree from Cranfield University (2002), a Master of Arts (MA) degree in defence studies from King's College London (2008), and a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the University of Oxford in major programme management (2018).

RAF career
Lloyd was commissioned into the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 29 September 1991 with the rank of pilot officer. After training as an engineer officer, he worked on the Hercules C-130, the Tornado GR1 and the Tornado GR4 aircraft. He was promoted to flying officer on 29 March 1992 with seniority in that rank from 29 March 1991, and to flight lieutenant on 29 March 1995.

Lloyd was promoted to group captain on 17 September 2012. He became Chief Engineer and Type Airworthiness Authority within the Unmanned Air Systems project team at Defence Equipment and Support in September 2012. He went on to be Head of the Typhoon Delivery Team at Defence Equipment and Support in August 2016, and Director Support and the Chief Engineer of the RAF in January 2021. 

In September 2023, Lloyd was appointed interim Deputy Chief of the Air Staff and Air Member for Personnel, and promoted to acting air marshal. These appointments were formalised on 17 May 2024, and he was promoted to substantive air marshal in June 2024, backdated to 18 September 2023.

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours.

References

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Air Force air marshals
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Alumni of Cranfield University
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Marion Pottinger. Marion G. Pottinger is an American mechanical engineer known for his work on tire footprint mechanics, tire wear and tire force and moment behavior.

Education 

Pottinger holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS (1963) and a PhD (1966) in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

Career 

Pottinger began his career with the research and development unit at B.F. Goodrich, rising to the rank of senior manager.  In 1985 he joined Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company, where he held an Associate R&D Fellow position responsible for development of high performance tires and for measurements of tire wear.  In 1988 he joined Smithers Scientific Services.  He retired from Smithers in 2003 as Technical Director.  In retirement, he operated a private consulting company M'gineering.  

Pottinger served as president of the Tire Society and was a member of several SAE committees: the Highway Tire Forum Committee, the Vehicle Dynamics Standards Committee, and the Chassis and Suspension Committee. He was a member of the ASTM F-09 Committee on Tires. Pottinger served as a member of a Transportation Research Board committee that was influential in writing legislation on tire energy consumption labeling.

His most cited work gives a model for combined tire cornering and braking forces.

Awards

 2012 - Harold Herzlich Distinguished Technology Achievement Medal
 2012 - Tire Society Distinguished Service Award
 2014 - Tire Technology International Lifetime Achievement Award
 2015 - James M Crawford Technical Standards Board Outstanding Achievement Award from SAE International

References 

Tire industry people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stephanie Macquarrie. Stephanie MacQuarrie is an organic materials chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at Cape Breton University. Her research has spanned many areas of chemistry, including organic synthesis, organometallic catalysis, and materials characterization. She has contributed to the use of biochar as a green material for use in various chemical processes, including collaboration with Professor Francesca M. Kerton. In 2021, she was elected as the Director for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Canadian Society for Chemistry. She was recognized by the Cape Breton University Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence in 2017. In 2023, she was named one of the inaugural NSERC Chairs for Inclusion in Science and Engineering. She was elected as a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC) in 2024.

Early career
Professor MacQuarrie completed her B.Sc. in chemistry at Mount Allison University in 1996. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry at Virginia Tech under the supervision of Professor Paul Carlier, graduating in  2005. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Queen's University in the laboratory of Professor Cathleen Crudden from 2005 to 2009. She was appointed to a faculty position at Cape Breton University in 2009.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of Cape Breton University
Mount Allison University alumni
Navigator and Airman Aircrew School RAF. Navigator and Airman Aircrew School RAF is a former Royal Air Force school which trained navigators between 1996 and 2005 along with other aircrew dating back to 1941.

 Navigator and Airman Aircrew School RAF (1996-2005)
 Airfields used: RAF Cranwell
 Aircraft used: Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1
 Air Electronics, Engineer & Loadmaster School RAF (1983-96)
 Airfields used: RAF Finningley
 Aircraft used: 
 Air Electronics and Engineers School RAF (1967-83)
 Airfields used: RAF Topcliffe, RAF Finningley 
 Aircraft used: Vickers Varsity T.1 & Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1
 The Air Electronics School RAF (1960-67)
 Airfields used: RAF Hullavington, RAF Topcliffe
 Aircraft used: Avro Anson T.22 & Vickers Varsity
 No. 1 Air Electronics School RAF (1957-60)
 Airfields used: RAF Swanton Morley, RAF Hullavington
 Aircraft used: Avro Anson T.22
 No. 1 Air Signallers School RAF (1951-57)
 Airfields used: RAF Swanton Morley
 Aircraft used: Avro Anson T.21 & Percival Prentices
 No. 4 Radio School RAF (1943-51}
 Airfields used: RAF Madley, RAF Swanton Morley
 Aircraft used: de Havilland Dominie & Percival Proctor
 No. 4 Signals School RAF (1941-43)
 Airfields used: RAF Madley
 Aircraft used:

See also
 No. 3 Flying Training School RAF
 List of Royal Air Force schools

References

1941 establishments in the United Kingdom
Aviation schools in the United Kingdom
Military units and formations in Lincolnshire
Training establishments of the Royal Air Force
Willibald Trinks. Charles Leopold Willibald Trinks (10 December 1874 in Berlin – 24 May 1966 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) was a German scientist who emigrated to Pennsylvania soon after getting his degree from the Technische Hochschule in Charlottnburg (now Technische Universität Berlin). Working as an engineer in different US companies he became the world authority in industrial furnaces. At the Carnegie Institute of Technology he organized the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Life

Willibald Trinks was born 1874 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia. He got his tertiary education at Königlich Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin). Then after working in Germany for two years he emigrated to Pennsylvania in the United States. He had three marriages: Maud Alice Moore, whom he married in 1902 in Allegheny County. After her death he married her sister Edith Moore. In 1938 he married Ruth Eudora Waxham in Pittsburgh. His two sons died early: Charles Henry Gisbert Trinks (1903 - 1914), and Harold A. Trinks (1911 - 1929). Willibald Trinks died in 1966.

Career
W. Trinks graduated with distinction from the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in 1897. Before his emigration to the US he worked as a mechanical engineer in Germany for two years.

In the United States he was engineer at William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company Philadelphia, Southwark Foundry and Machine Company in Philadelphia, then Chief Engineer at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Professor Trinks was one of the first appointments of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he headed the Department of Mechanical Engineering for 38 years.

Scientific publications
 Shaft Governors (1918), D. van Nostrand Company, New York
 Governors and the Governing of Prime Movers (1919), D. van Nostrand Company, New York
 Industrial Furnaces: Volume 1 (1923), John Wiley & Sons, New York
 Industrial Furnaces: Volume 2 (1925), John Wiley & Sons, New York
 Roll Pass Design Volume 1 (1933), Penton Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
 Roll Pass Design Volume 2 (1934), Penton Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Awards
 Percy Nicholls Award (1958)

References

1874 births
1966 deaths
20th-century German inventors
19th-century German inventors
Prussian emigrants to the United States
Scientists from Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin alumni
20th-century American engineers
American technology writers