 Editor's Note
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| Dear Reader
Sometimes we take it for granted that engineering expertise is behind almost every product we use in our daily lives. As products get more and more complex, educators around the world are recognizing the need to update pedagogy and breed more world-class engineers. Dr. Jacob Apkarian, Quanser's CTO has already shared a strategy for universities to optimize engineering programs to captivate a new generation of students.
To ensure universities have the right tools to prepare world-class engineers, Quanser is enhancing software and peripherals - important components of our turn-key lab solutions and research platforms:
For over 20 years Quanser has helped shape new generations of
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New Teaching and Research Tools
Portability Hand-in-Hand with Performance |
 Looking for a more convenient way of interfacing hardware to your data acquisition board through USB connection... without compromising performance? Look no further. Quanser's novel high performance USB data acquisitions solutions will be available this spring. There are two versions to choose from: two channel, Q2-USB and eight channel, Q8-USB. This portable technology maintains high performance to meet the needs of your teaching and research.
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Focused on QUARC
Targets for Hard Real-Time Performance |
Global leaders such as General Electric or Siemens rely on software platforms from QNX Software Systems when hard real-time performance is crucial. Researchers needing the best deterministic hard-real time performance can achieve it by using QUARC 2.1 and running a model on a QNX Neutrino target.
A QUARC-based controller proved to be very stable at QNX's booth at Embedded World 2010in Nurnberg, Germany. Using Quanser's Rotary Self-Erecting Inverted Pendulum, we demonstrated how QUARC allows industrial control systems to run two operating systems - QNX Neutrino RTOS and Microsoft Windows - on a single multi-core chip.
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Focused on Unmanned Systems
Follow the Leader
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 Cooperation is the basic requirement for any team to function well. You can apply the same principle to a team of unmanned vehicles and make them cooperate without any human control. Watch a short demo of Quanser's Unmanned Vehicle Systems Lab to see how Qbot ground vehicle leads a mission and cooperates with Qball-X4 aerial vehicle that follows it. Using any number of Qball-X4s and Qbots, localization system and powerful QUARC software, you can develop your own exciting experiments to study cooperative control indoors.
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 "The power of QUARC, with Quanser's engineering support, enabled TRI to create a flexible development environment for researchers to implement sophisticated real-time experiments, using a large-scale 11-ton, 6 DOF motion platform and high-performance audio-visual rendering systems."
Dr. Geoff Fernie, Vice President, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada
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