Joseph Filbert;Aaron Barvincak;Mohammad Tayeb Al Qaseer;Reza Zoughi
{"title":"Microwave Characterization of Metal Powder in Additive Manufacturing (AM)","authors":"Joseph Filbert;Aaron Barvincak;Mohammad Tayeb Al Qaseer;Reza Zoughi","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2024.3396226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2024.3396226","url":null,"abstract":"Common additive manufacturing (AM) methods use metal powder feedstock. The properties of the metal powder, such as particle size distribution (PSD), morphology, and presence of surface oxides or other contaminants, significantly impact the quality of the built part. Microwave materials characterization techniques potentially offer effective means by which to evaluate such metal properties. To assess sensitivity of microwave signals to the properties of metal powder used in AM, different types of metal powder were incorporated into resin composite samples, whose dielectric and magnetic properties were then measured using the well-known completely filled-waveguide technique at the Ka-band (26.5–40 GHz) and V-band (50–67 GHz). These measurements revealed that microwave signals are sensitive to small (~0.5%) changes in the metal powder volume fraction. It was also found that the resin powder composites exhibited diamagnetic properties and could be accurately modeled using effective media theories which consider both the dielectric and magnetic properties. The findings open the door for future investigations by which optimized techniques can be devised to do the same in an in-line manner during the AM process.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"3 ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10517939","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and Analysis of Lung Water Content Using RF Sensor","authors":"Prapti Ganguly;Shreyasi Das;Amlan Chakrabarti;Jawad Yaseen Siddiqui","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3348904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3348904","url":null,"abstract":"Abnormal fluid buildup in the lungs, termed pulmonary edema (PE), is a result of congestive heart failure. It is a life-threatening condition, and early detection and prompt treatment can help save lives. In this article, we demonstrate the feasibility of using a microwave sensor to monitor changes in lung water content and hence detect PE. The research paper utilizes a combination of the Debye and Maxwell models, along with the Cole–Cole equation, to evaluate alterations in the dielectric properties and conductivity of lung tissue. By incorporating elements such as air and water found within the tissue, this dielectric model has been employed to foresee how lung tissues behave when subjected to different levels of hydration and inflation. A printed antenna resonating at 2.4 GHz was designed to work as a sensor. The static dielectric parameters of lung tissue at various water volume fractions were calculated at 2.4 GHz using the Debye–Maxwell model. These parameters were substituted in the Cole–Cole equation to calculate the dielectric constant of lung tissue for different levels of water in the lungs. These values were then substituted in the simulation environment, where the sensor is placed on blocks modeling the human thorax. This work is a first of its kind where the dielectric parameters at different levels of hydration have been previously estimated using mathematical models and substituted accordingly in the modeling environment to test the possibility of detection of PE with high precision. It was observed that the magnitude of the reflection coefficient values changes with increasing water volume fraction, making the microwave method of detection of PE feasible and a reliable technique.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"3 ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10380229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139572859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sivagunalan Sivanathan;Mohammed Ali Roula;Kang Li;Dun Qiao;Nigel Joseph Copner
{"title":"Design of an FPGA-Based High-Speed Data Acquisition System for Frequency Scanning Interferometry Long-Range Measurement","authors":"Sivagunalan Sivanathan;Mohammed Ali Roula;Kang Li;Dun Qiao;Nigel Joseph Copner","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3347268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3347268","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency scanning interferometry (FSI) has become a popular method for long-range, targetbased, distance measurements. However, the cost of developing such systems, particularly the electronic components required for high-speed data acquisition (DAQ), remains a significant concern. In this article, we present a cost-effective, FPGA-based real-time DAQ system specifically designed for FSI, with a focus on long absolute distance measurements. Our design minimizes the use of third-party intellectual property (IP) and is fully compatible with the Xilinx FPGA 7 series families. The hardware employs a 160-MS/s, 16-bit dual-channel ADC interfaced to the FPGA via a low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS). The proposed system incorporates an external sampling clock, referred to as the K-clock, which linearizes the laser’s tuning rate, enabling optical measurements to be sampled at equal optical frequency intervals rather than equal time intervals. Additionally, we present the design of a high-speed, 160-MS/s ADC module for the front-end analog signal interface and the LVDS connection to the chosen FPGA. We demonstrate that the digitized data samples can be efficiently transmitted to a polarization controller (PC) application via a USB interface for further processing.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"3 ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10374215","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139572860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Message From the Incoming Editor-in-Chief","authors":"Reza Zoughi","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3336150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3336150","url":null,"abstract":"Dear IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement (OJIM) contributors, associate editors, journal administrators, and readers:","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10355536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138633868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editorial Special Section on Signal Processing and Machine Learning in Intelligent Instrumentation, IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","authors":"Anirban Mukherjee;Rajarshi Gupta;Amitava Chatterjee","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3334827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3334827","url":null,"abstract":"There has been tremendous interest in the development and deployment of Signal Processing and Machine Learning algorithms for almost all areas of instrumentation and measurement systems, starting from power systems, transportation, biomedical and healthcare, industrial measurements and automation, robotics and mechatronics, smart infrastructure, and facility management to aerospace and navigation. Their combination, signal processing and machine learning, is expected to dominate the next decade industrial developments. In order to embed the “intelligence” into the measurement, signal processing has been one of the ubiquitous techniques for quite some time. Machine learning methods make these intelligent methods “experienced.” Because machine learning has been around in recent years, signal processing software–hardware systems equipped with machine learning are relatively mature. In this Special Section, a call for paper included (but were not limited to) the following areas.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10352322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138558056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Year-End Message by the Outgoing Editor-in-Chief","authors":"Shervin Shirmohammadi","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3333608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3333608","url":null,"abstract":"<graphic>\u0000As the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement (OJIM), it is my pleasure to write this Year-End Message for OJIM’s second year of operations. As you may know by now, OJIM is the Gold Open Access publication of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS). All articles are Open Access and available for free to all readers. OJIM is also an online-only and Volume-only journal, meaning that papers are published online continuously as they are accepted. Since there is very little waiting time for a paper to be assigned to the current Volume, OJIM is a rapid-publication and competitive journal by today’s publishing standards. The year 2023 saw OJIM’s second Volume successfully published, so let us take a look at some specifics.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10352324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138558042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nondestructive Diagnostic Measurement Methods for HF RFID Devices With AI Assistance","authors":"Thibaut Deleruyelle;Amaury Auguste;Florian Sananes;Ghislain Oudinet","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3335537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJIM.2023.3335537","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents different methods for noninvasive validation and diagnostics of contactless devices. The radio frequency systems studied here operate at 13.56 MHz. When manufacturing these systems in volume, it is essential to separate the fully functional devices from the totally defective ones or even from those communicating but have anomalies that will lead to a significant reduction of their lifetime. This article compares two noninvasive methods, one based on impedance measurements and the other on impulse response measurements. The advantages and drawbacks of these methods are presented and compared to their use in large-scale manufacturing. In addition to the proposed methods, this article describes two decision-making methodologies based on machine learning. This article compares also both measurement methods and machine learning tools. A robustness study shows the limitations of the employed techniques","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10334483","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139572880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microwave Complex Permittivity of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia","authors":"Anna Case;Aaron Barvincak;Reza Zoughi","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3332398","DOIUrl":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3332398","url":null,"abstract":"The complex permittivity of 8-mol yttria-stabilized zirconia (8-YSZ) in powder and sintered (i.e., solid) forms were measured from 32 to 40 GHz using a circular waveguide probe. This probe is suitable for measuring both the powder and solid forms of materials. Comparative completely filled rectangular waveguide measurements of the powder were performed at three frequency bands to verify these results and also to extend the measured complex permittivity estimation frequency range. The results indicated good agreement between the two different measurement techniques. The complex permittivity of the 8-YSZ powder was measured to be \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$(epsilon _{r} = 2.45 - j0.04)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000. Conductor-backed solid 8-YSZ, representative of an in-service ceramic coating, was also measured using the circular waveguide probe. Complex permittivity was measured to be significantly higher \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$(epsilon _{r} = 29.28 - j0.07)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 when the 8-YSZ was sintered into a solid form. This was attributed to densification and other effects occurring during the sintering process.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10319343","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135709610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical-Variational Mode Decomposition for Baseline Correction in Electroencephalogram Signals","authors":"Shireen Fathima;Maaz Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3332339","DOIUrl":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3332339","url":null,"abstract":"Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals being time-resolving signals, suffer very often from baseline drift caused by eye movements, breathing, variations in differential electrode impedances, movement of the subject, and so on. This leads to misinterpretation of the EEG data under test. Hence, the absence of techniques for effectively removing the baseline drift from the signal can degrade the overall performance of the EEG-based systems. To address this issue, this article deals with developing a novel scheme of hierarchically decomposing a signal using variational mode decomposition (VMD) in a tree-based model for a given level of the tree for accurate and effective analysis of the EEG signal and research in brain–computer interface (BCI). The proposed hierarchical extension to the conventional VMD, i.e., H-VMD, is evaluated for performing baseline drift removal from the EEG signals. The method is tested using both synthetically generated and real EEG datasets. With the availability of ground-truth information in synthetically generated data, metrics like percentage root-mean-squared difference (PRD) and correlation coefficient are used as evaluation metrics. It is seen that the proposed method performs better in estimating the underlying baseline signal and closely resembles the ground truth with higher values of correlation and the lowest value of PRD when compared to the closely related state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10317886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135662227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrahigh-Sensitivity Pressure Sensor With Graphene Aerogel Electrodes","authors":"Ezzat G. Bakhoum","doi":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3332393","DOIUrl":"10.1109/OJIM.2023.3332393","url":null,"abstract":"A new pressure sensor with ultrahigh sensitivity is presented. The sensor is based on the concept of creating a variable supercapacitor that responds to pressure. The sensor consists mainly of a liquid electrolyte and two graphene aerogel electrodes. As pressure is applied to the graphene aerogel electrodes, the liquid electrolyte penetrates in the pores of the electrodes, and a variable supercapacitor is obtained. The sensor is sensitive to pressures of less than 0.1 Pa. Characteristics of the sensor, such as accuracy, nonlinearity, and response time, are fully analyzed.","PeriodicalId":100630,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement","volume":"2 ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10317894","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135662217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}