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Automotive Research Association of India

The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), established in 1966 in Pune, is India's leading automotive testing and homologation body, operating under the Ministry of Heavy Industries.

Automotive Safety Integrity Level

Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) is a risk classification scheme in ISO 26262, grading vehicle functions ASIL A to ASIL D based on severity, exposure, and controllability.

Oct 21, 2026

AUTON'HOME study

AUTON'HOME (NCT07317388) is an observational study at Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France, testing a 10-session, 2-hour group psychoeducation program in a training apartment to build home autonomy for adults with severe mood or psychotic disorders.

AutoNav (rover software)

AutoNav is the autonomous navigation software NASA's Mars rovers use to drive without real-time direction from Earth, first flown on the rovers Spirit and Opportunity in 2004.

Autonegotiation

Autonegotiation, also known as NWay, is an Ethernet procedure defined in IEEE 802.3 clause 28 in which two devices exchange capabilities and select the highest common speed and duplex mode.

Autonics

Autonics (오토닉스) is a South Korean manufacturer of industrial automation products such as sensors, controllers, and machine vision equipment, headquartered in Busan and founded in 1977.

Oct 21, 2026

Autonoë Linea

Autonoë Linea is a named linea, or linear tectonic marking, on Jupiter's moon Europa. Its southern branch is much younger than Argoipe Linea, per USGS crosscutting analysis.

Autonomic Denervation

Autonomic denervation: surgical or catheter-based interruption of autonomic nerves (sympathectomy, parasympathectomy, renal denervation) for therapy or research; includes 1924 lumbar sympathectomy origins and 2023 FDA renal denervation approval.

Autonomic dysreflexia

Autonomic dysreflexia, also called autonomic hyperreflexia, is a life-threatening condition in which a noxious stimulus below a spinal cord injury at or above T6 triggers sudden severe hypertension.

Autonomic nervous system

Autonomic nervous system (ANS): involuntary branch of the peripheral nervous system, divisions sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric; term coined by Langley in 1898; regulates heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion.

Autonomic nervous system hyperactivity

Autonomic nervous system hyperactivity (ICD-11 8D86) is excessive autonomic activity, chiefly paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity after brain injury and autonomic dysreflexia after spinal cord injury at or above T6.

Autonomic neuron

Autonomic neuron: efferent neuron of the autonomic nervous system, in preganglionic (CNS, cholinergic) and postganglionic (ganglionic, noradrenergic or cholinergic) forms, innervating smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands.

Autonomic neuropathies

Autonomic neuropathies are peripheral nerve disorders with disproportionate damage to autonomic fibers, causing orthostatic hypotension, gastroparesis, neurogenic bladder, and sweating and sexual dysfunction; diabetes is the most common cause, diagnosed by autonomic reflex testing.

Autonomic Technologies (ATI)

Autonomic Technologies Inc (ATI) is a Redwood City, California medical device company, founded in 2007 as a Cleveland Clinic spinoff, that developed the Pulsante microstimulator for cluster headache.

Autonomism

Autonomism, or autonomist Marxism, is an anti-authoritarian Marxist current emerging from Italian operaismo (workerism) of the 1960s, centered on working-class autonomy, class composition, refusal of work, and later concepts like immaterial labor and the multitude.

Autonomous administrative division

Autonomous administrative division: a territorial unit granted self-government within a sovereign state, also called autonomous region or federacy. Distinguished from federal units by covering only part of a state's territory, with examples like the Azores, Madeira, and Åland.

Autonomous administrative divisions of China

Autonomous administrative divisions of China (民族区域自治): three-level system of autonomous regions, prefectures, and counties where minority organs of self-government exercise autonomy under the 1984 Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law; five autonomous regions exist.

Autonomous Charter of Puerto Rico

The Autonomous Charter of Puerto Rico (Carta Autonómica de Puerto Rico) was Spain's 1897 decree granting the island self-government, cut short by the 1898 US invasion.

Autonomous chemically fuelled molecular motor

An autonomous chemically fueled molecular motor is a synthetic molecular machine converting chemical fuel into continuous directed motion, first reported by David A. Leigh's group at Manchester in 2016.

Autonomous collision avoidance

Autonomous collision avoidance lets a spacecraft detect a predicted close approach in orbit, assess the collision risk, and execute an avoidance maneuver without human approval of each action.

Autonomous communities of Spain

Autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) are Spain's 17 first-level self-governing regions, plus Ceuta and Melilla, created by the 1978 Constitution in a quasi-federal, asymmetric system with devolved health, education and financing powers.

Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge

The Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge (AGC) is an international competition, organized by Wageningen University & Research since 2018, in which teams use AI to autonomously manage greenhouse crops.

Autonomous haulage system

An autonomous haulage system (AHS) is a fleet-level technology that runs driverless haul trucks in open-pit mines; Komatsu launched the first commercial system in 2008.

Autonomous Medical Devices Incorporated (AMDI)

Autonomous Medical Devices Incorporated (AMDI), formerly Sensor-Kinesis Corp, is an American medical diagnostics company in Santa Ana, California, whose Fast PCR system won FDA clearance and a CLIA waiver in 2026.

Autonomous mobile robot

An autonomous mobile robot (AMR) is a wheeled or legged robot that navigates workspaces on its own with onboard sensors, unlike automated guided vehicles that follow fixed infrastructure.

Autonomous orbit control

Autonomous orbit control is the onboard regulation of a spacecraft's orbit, with the spacecraft determining its position and firing thrusters without ground operators in the loop.

Autonomous Province of Korçë

The Autonomous Province of Korçë (Krahina Autonome e Korçës) was an autonomous region of southeastern Albania, established under French protection in December 1916 during World War I.

Autonomous quantum error correction

Autonomous quantum error correction is an approach to protecting quantum information in which errors are detected and reversed by engineered dissipation within the system itself, rather than by external syndrome measurements and adaptive feedback.

Autonomous quantum error correction with cat qubits

Autonomous quantum error correction with cat qubits is an approach in which engineered dissipation continuously stabilizes a logical qubit in cat states, correcting errors without active measurement.