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Innovative haptic system selected for exclusive showcasing
Morgan Innovation and Technology, a family-run manufacturing company from Petersfield, is one of just 100 companies to have won a place in an exhibition of the most cutting-edge innovations in business today. The company has been selected to showcase its innovative haptic glove at Innovate 2016 in Manchester this month.
The haptic glove has been developed by Morgan IAT in conjunction with the University of Southampton, and its haptic system for the hand will provide injured individuals with a sense of touch.
Haptics is a feedback technology which mimics the sense of touch by applying stimuli, such as pressure, temperature and vibration to the user. When combined with virtual reality it allows users to see and feel the specific motion and action they are performing. The product could have applications for stroke rehabilitation, and other interactive applications are likely to be virtual reality and augmented reality gaming.
Ruth Mckernan, Innovate UK chief executive, said: “Innovate 2016 will be an excellent opportunity for Morgan IAT to showcase its cutting-edge innovation to a national and international audience.”
Innovate 2016 is the UK’s largest multi-sector innovation Aqua Cooling wins international science award
Fareham-based specialist engineering firm Aqua Cooling has been honoured by the international Institute of Physics (IOP). The team, represented by Aqua directors Kevin Lancaster and Simon Davis, has been presented with a Commended Innovation award for its patented Leak Prevention System (LPS) which puts a basic scientific principle to work in a commercial application for the first time. This principle, the Venturi effect, is based on the premise that water under negative pressure cannot escape through a hole or breach in a pipe, hose, or joint.
Davis commented: “This award represents valuable recognition from the scientific community and highlights the enormous significance and potential of our LPS within the data centre industry. We spent a substantial amount of time trialling pipework
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sizes and designs to ensure sufficient velocity, and spent time with Venturi designers to overcome issues of noise and vibration.”
By incorporating the LPS into its range of water-based cooling systems, Aqua can guarantee optimum efficiency and continuous, 100% leak-free performance, which makes its systems ideal for installation and operation in sensitive environments such as data centres and on-chip cooling.
The ground-breaking system has already won the Hampshire- based cooling specialist industry- wide recognition. It has previously won a string of awards for its state-of-the-art development and design including a 2015 Queen’s Award for Enterprise (Innovation), also in recognition of the LPS.
event and is organised by Innovate UK and the Department for International Trade. It is set up to create opportunities for export and investment for the UK’s most innovative companies.
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Roke to demonstrate its latest software to Royal Navy
Romsey-based Roke Manor Research (Roke) is set to demonstrate its cutting-edge artificial intelligence software in a maritime combat-system demonstrator sponsored by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), as part of a third phase of work awarded by Dstl. The new bio-inspired software is designed to help the Royal Navy quickly monitor and prioritise potential threats while at sea.
Aptly named STARTLE, the software uses sophisticated machine situational-awareness algorithms which emulate the human fear-response mechanism, helping operators understand the complex situations increasingly typical of modern warfare.
Mike Hook, lead software architect on STARTLE at Roke, said: “This is an exciting project
for us. Traditional methods of processing data can be inefficient so we have looked at the human brain’s tried and tested means of detecting and assessing threats to help us design a better way to do it. The techniques have the potential to benefit the Royal Navy.
“The first two phases of the project have proved that we’ve been able to successfully apply these techniques to real data from complex scenarios. The clever part comes in the way these potential threats are detected and the way our software redistributes resources to decide if they are real – all in the blink of an eye.”
In addition to maritime defence systems, STARTLE can also be adapted for autonomous vehicles, health and usage- monitoring applications.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH COAST – NOVEMBER 2016
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