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NI acquIres moNoDrIve to accelerate autoNomous vehIcle DevelopmeNt NI will leverage monoDrive’s expertise in


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I has acquired monoDrive, a leader in ultra-high fidelity simulation software for


advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle development. The acquisition expands NI’s reach in the ADAS and simulation markets and will enable NI’s transportation customers to accelerate the development, test, and deployment of safer autonomous systems. The design cycles for ADAS are complex and


automotive OEMs and suppliers need systems that streamline the transitions between simulation, lab-based and physical test environments to ultimately create safer vehicles. Today, disparate tools cause siloed processes, time-to-market delays, and lead to higher costs that reduce the pace of innovation and hinder the quality of advanced technologies.


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Welcome to the May issue of Instrumentation Monthly. For several months now,


NASA’s Perseverance rover has been studying the surface of Mars. On board the rover are numerous measurement devices including technology from Vaisala. The company’s instruments have enabled the creation of the first meteorological network on another planet. Find out more on page 20. For those of us stuck on planet Earth, there are still options to look to the stars. The Wise Observatory in Israel’s Negev desert has been supporting cutting-edge astronomical research for decades. However, recently researchers were beginning to notice performance issues - the original encoders were giving false positioning information, causing software to shut down without warning. The research team chose to collaborate with Soulutions, an official distributor of Renishaw encoders, to replace legacy encoders with Renishaw RESOLUTE encoders. Find out more on page 24.


Victoria White, Editor


signal processing and advanced simulation to help customers accelerate the delivery of ADAS through high fidelity driving environments capable of modeling numerous sensors and thousands of real-time scenarios. This approach combined with NI’s software- connected systems will help transportation customers streamline the transitions between simulation, lab-based and physical testing environments. In doing so, NI will now enable vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to accelerate the shift to self-driving vehicles. “We welcome the monoDrive employees to


NI and look forward to collectively accelerating our growth ambitions for our transportation business,” said Chad Chesney, NI vice president and general manager of the transportation


business unit. “The combination of monoDrive’s advanced software and NI’s strong position in ADAS will enable smooth transitions across our customer’s software validation workflows. This in turn delivers greater test efficiency, coverage and more realistic testing scenarios to help automotive manufacturers get safe and reliable autonomous vehicles on the road faster.”


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aNsIble motIoN awarDeD the queeN’s awarD for eNterprIse


simulation technology, has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The Norwich-based company is one of 205 to receive the award on the grounds of remarkable success in international trade. Now in its 55th year, The Queen’s Award


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recognises British businesses who excel at international trade, innovation, sustainable development or promoting opportunity through social mobility. It is the highest official UK award for business. Ansible Motion has been granted The


Queen’s Award after proving it had achieved outstanding growth in overseas earnings relative to its business size and sector, as well year-on-year growth in overseas sales in the last three years. This award comes at the end of a successful


six-month period for the Norwich-based company, which expanded its team in September 2020 due to the rise in demand for simulation technology during COVID across vehicle manufacturing and motorsport sectors.


aDI commIts to Net zero emIssIoNs by 2050


company’s climate strategy, including pledging to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. As part of the company’s roadmap towards


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net zero, ADI signed the United Nations’ Business Ambition for 1.5°C pledge and has committed to setting targets to be verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). “Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to our society, and this decade will be


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nalog Devices, Inc. (ADI) has announced new commitments that advance the


pivotal in determining our collective success in turning the tide. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require a collective global effort – and the time for action is now,” said Vincent Roche, president and CEO of Analog Devices. “At ADI, we are dedicated to putting our great engineering minds and resources behind this challenge and accelerating our sustainability ambitions with even greater urgency. The commitments we are making today represent bold steps forward in our climate strategy and we will continue to


Kia Cammaerts, founder and director of


Ansible Motion said: “We’re so honoured to have been awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise. This success would not have been possible without our strong, skilled and ambitious team, who are always working to ensure we can develop the best possible simulation technology for the fast-evolving needs of a market that includes OEMS, Tier 1s and motorsport constructors. “It has been an incredibly difficult year for


business, but we are proud of the way we have risen to, and proved resilient against, the challenges of a changing world. This award is recognition of that.”


www.ansiblemotion.com


nsible Motion, the pioneering specialist in Driver-in-the-Loop (DIL) vehicle


identify new and innovative ways to make meaningful progress against our goals.”


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