Transitioning from a Large Company to the First Employee at Small Company

Most of us have been in this position at some point in our lives: You know the ropes at your current job; you are deeply involved in several projects there, have great friends at the office and are generally pleased with the work environment. However, despite the fact that you are content with your position, it isn’t giving you everything … Read More

Dispelling Myths about JAUS

At Neya, we’re big believers in interoperability through standards compliance.  Many of us have a long history with the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS), as well as the UAS Control Segment (UCS) Architecture.  We’ve even been known to flirt with STANAG-4586 from time to time.  As proponents, particularly of JAUS, I often hear comments and criticism toward the standard … Read More

Preparing for a Robotics Field Test

Most robotics programs inevitably reach a phase of development in which the system must be tested in the field: where the environment and usage scenarios closely reflect the conditions in which the robot is to ultimately be used. This migration from the “lab” environment can require increased logistics overhead costs stemming from additional support personnel, establishing remote offices/labs, transporting equipment … Read More

Kicking off our new Blog

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been debating the merits of blogging. After discussion, deliberation, looking at examples that we like and dislike, we have decided to start a company blog, and to devote the internal resources to properly maintain and update it. This was not a decision we took lightly, and the internal feedback we received on … Read More

Neya Systems LLC Moves to New Offices

We are proud to announce that we have moved to new offices, in order to provide room and new facilities for our continued growth. Our new space is located in Wexford PA, and offers significantly larger office space, a highbay, and adjacent test site facilities for large and mid-sized Unmanned Ground Vehicles. Our new address is: 145 Lake Drive, Suite … Read More

Neya Systems Announces Support for JAUS Tool Set

Neya Systems LLC has announced that it will be providing hosting and support services for the JAUS Tool Set (JTS). JTS is a full-featured software development kit for SAE JAUS Services.  Neya has provided technical management and development support for JTS for the past two years, and Neya’s staff are all well versed in the creation of SAE JAUS Services, … Read More

Neya Systems Takes Second Place in CANINE Competition

The team of Neya Systems and Carnegie Mellon University was awarded second place in the 2012 Robotics Rodeo CANINE Competition. In this event, five teams competed to demonstrate advanced object recognition, search, and retrieval technologies through a series of six trials. Of the five teams competing, Neya was the only team to reach the 5th trial. Neya developed the core … Read More

Neya Systems Awarded RTC Contract

Neya Systems was awarded an RTC Contract to develop and demonstrate advanced path planning and maneuver selection technologies for high speed off-road unmanned ground vehicles. The Adaptive & Modular Multi Terrain Mobility Planner (AM3P) is a set of planning and simulation technologies focused on addressing the use of high fidelity terrain and kinodynamic vehicle models to enable high speed navigation. … Read More

Neya Systems to Demonstrate Advanced Video Interfacing System

Neya Systems will be demonstrating the Robotics Technology Consortium funded Digital Video Interfacing System (DVIS) at the 2012 NDIA Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference. DVIS is a “swiss army knife” for video interfacing and h.264 compression, and is a small, low-powered hardware solution to integrate USB, 1394b, CameraLink, HDMI, GigE, and NTSC cameras into your unmanned systems. The DVIS system, which … Read More