Test & Measurement World - July 1, 2010

To develop its "human interactive" robotic devices, Kinea Design relies on an eclectic array of tests that include conventional electronic instruments, homegrown solutions, and "human-in-the-loop" techniques.

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• In praise of measurement
• News Briefs
• News briefs
• Show Highlights
• The Vision Show 2010: Lights, vision, and software
• International Microwave Symposium 2010: RF vendors look for edge in recovery
• Test Voices
• From back end to front end
• Viewpoint
• How PXI fuels test's recovery

• Features
• RF/Wireless Test
• RF fading simulation
• Test Ideas
• Test Ideas: Find vibrations in defective rotating parts

• Mechatronics in Design
• Complexity demands a new engineering mindset

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• Luna's reflectometer finds network faults
• Calibrate nearly any electrical instrument
• DC analyzer gains SMU functions
• NI advances IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN test
• VeriWave launches WaveDeploy for wireless LANs

• Tech Trends
• Design for Test
• Embedded and edge devices offer test opportunities
• Machine Vision
• Desktop SEMs produce fast images

• Test Digest
• Fiber-Optics Test
• Transistor laser could change communications
• RF/Microwave Test
• Gore study contrasts VNAs and TDRs