{"title":"Wireless power and data transfer to sensors in extreme space environments","authors":"H. Dhadwal, J. Rastegar, P. Kwok","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737566","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the novel use of high power laser diodes for rapid delivery of power and data to wireless sensors when solar illumination is not an option and continuous point-to-point power flow is not desirable. A single high power, laser diode source can service multiple sensors, either sequentially or in parallel. Laser irradiance levels exceeding 10k suns decrease the charging time of a super-capacitor, without damage to the photovoltaic converter. Alternatively, multiple devices, connected in parallel, also reduce the charging time. We demonstrate the efficacy of the approach using four photonic power converters. Simultaneously, with delivery of power, IrDA trans-receivers establish full-duplex communication between the transmitter and receiver.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132629336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remote modification of sensor mote design for next-generation Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"A. E. Kateeb","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737558","url":null,"abstract":"Many Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applications are new and their requirements may not be fully anticipated during the sensor networks design and development stage. We are presenting a sensor network infrastructure that support motes' with remote hardware and software modification to match the target applications need. Using the proposed infrastructure in next-generation WSNs will produce flexible infrastructures that will provide over-the-air remote design modification even after the deployment of WSNs on the sensing field. In this paper, we are presenting the design concept and challenges of such infrastructure. Also, we present the use of the infrastructure in one possible environmental monitoring application such as forest fire. The development of such infrastructure will have an impact on advances the research on the real-time remote sensing, heterogeneous WSN, and WSNs applications.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124302540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy-simplified doppler-aided channel estimation in satellite communication","authors":"Chengkai Tang, Qiangping Tang, Lingling Zhang","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737543","url":null,"abstract":"High speed forms of transportation as airplane, maglev, and low-earth-orbit satellite, arising great demand of high dynamic communication, which reveals the insufficiency of channel estimation without reliable doppler compensation. This paper proposes to use energy sorting to eliminate small component in time domain channel estimation, and adopt doppler shift to further revised the channel parameter estimation. Simulation results show that for large doppler shift, incorporating both energy simplify and doppler assistant, accuracy of the channel parameter can be improved, and also the BER can be effectively reduced.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114077042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Sanyal, Alfonso Mendoza-Radal, B. Ijaz, D. Dawn
{"title":"CMOS phase shifter for conformal phased array beamformer applications","authors":"A. Sanyal, Alfonso Mendoza-Radal, B. Ijaz, D. Dawn","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737557","url":null,"abstract":"A vector modulator based phase shifter is developed using 0.18um CMOS process at S-band frequency to be integrated into a conformal phased array antenna to recover the desired radiation pattern in the entire 360° range. The phase shifter has a variable gain amplifier integrated into the circuit in order to vary gain along with phase for precise control to correct the degraded radiation pattern due to the conformal shaping. The design shows the state-of-the-art performances including more than 7dB conversion gain with variable feature and a continuous phase rotation of 360° with steps as low as 11.25° with very low power consumption of 17mW. The chip size including all pads is 1.5mm × 0.75mm.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131857608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An ultra low power RFID sensor platform for launchers applications","authors":"J. Collignon, B. Rmili","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737544","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an in progress development of a complete RFID measurement system for space in-vehicle sensor data transmission. The RFID measurement system utilizes the EPCglobal Gen2 protocol for the communications and allows connecting common launcher's sensors (thermocouple, resistance temperature detectors, strain gauge, and pressure sensor). An ultra low power microcontroller manages the analog front-ends, the supply distribution between all in-situ modules, and governs the RFID data transfers. The performance evaluation results in a sensor tag able to transmit 200 measurement samples per second in a 5m communication distance, with an energy consumption of 48μJ per sample.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116140214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mojtaba Razfar, Joel Castro, Lonnie Labonte, Ramin Rezaei, Fady Ghabrial, P. Shankar, E. Besnard, A. Abedi
{"title":"Wireless network design and analysis for real time control of launch vehicles","authors":"Mojtaba Razfar, Joel Castro, Lonnie Labonte, Ramin Rezaei, Fady Ghabrial, P. Shankar, E. Besnard, A. Abedi","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737574","url":null,"abstract":"Network design for real time control of launch vehicles need to consider latency and noise in wireless environments. The proposed system will gather the acceleration information received from multiple sensors to reliably and robustly relay the orientation of the rocket back to the actuator system. To do so, a network simulation software will give us an estimate of the efficiency of these sensors in terms of their latency and throughput. Several factors can be considered to analyze the performance of these sensors such as the location of these nodes, device type, and the network parameters associated with the sensor nodes. In this work, we have analyzed these factors using OPNET simulator to have a better understanding of the performance of these sensors.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121387682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De Bruijn sequences as spreading codes in extreme Doppler conditions: Analysis and results","authors":"G. Pelliccioni, E. Gambi, S. Spinsante","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737562","url":null,"abstract":"Spread spectrum techniques, originally conceived to counteract the effects of noise and interference, have enabled the development of advanced mobile, multiple user, and satellite-based solutions, that are nowadays among the most prevalent and widespread communication technologies. Such techniques may find adoption even in the aeronautical scenario, for achieving higher efficiency, and safer air transport systems, capable of meeting increasing demands. This paper provides a preliminary performance analysis of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum signals, obtained through the use of innovative binary spreading sequences, the De Bruijn ones, in a scenario of large Doppler shift, and relative changing rate, as a result of the possibly high varying velocity of an aircraft, and worst-case condition of missing frequency offset estimation capability onboard. The results show that the use of binary De Bruijn sequences may improve signal recovery at the receiver, even in the presence of large distortions due to uncompensated Doppler effects.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117351728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed 2×2 space-time trellis code (DSTTC) with imperfect relay","authors":"Esam A. Obiedat","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737571","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a distributed space-time trellis code (DSTTC) structure over cooperative nodes with imperfect relay re-transmission. We provide detailed system design and analyze the error performance in Rayleigh fading channels when the relay channel is prone to errors. We compare the results to the equivalent non-cooperative one-hop link from the source to the destination and normalize power and signal to noise Ratio (SNR) calculations with respect to this reference.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127034594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Nariyal, I. Ullah, S. A. Naqvi, B. Ijaz, M. M. Masud, B. Booth, K. Asirvatham, B. Braaten
{"title":"On the use of amplitude tapering for pattern correction of conformal (Curved) antennas","authors":"S. Nariyal, I. Ullah, S. A. Naqvi, B. Ijaz, M. M. Masud, B. Booth, K. Asirvatham, B. Braaten","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737556","url":null,"abstract":"Using amplitude tapering to improve the radiation pattern of a conformal antenna on a surface that changes shape with time has been studied and is presented in this paper. In particular, a six element array was attached to a wedge-shape conformal surface with bend angles 10 degrees, 20 degrees, 30 degrees, 40 degrees, 45 degrees and 50 degrees and the amplitudes of each element were changed to improve the broadside radiation pattern. The amplitude coefficients of each element were computed using the array factor of a conformal antenna and a search algorithm.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122860172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A high temperature VCO for extreme environment wireless applications","authors":"Jie Yang","doi":"10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737550","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a 60 MHz voltage controlled oscillator based on a custom-built silicon carbide (SiC) junction field effect transistor (JFET) is proposed. This SiC VCO is capable of high temperature operation up to 450 °C. A prototype is fabricated through low temperature co-fire (LTCC) process and successfully tested from room temperature to 450 °C, at which stable circuit operation is maintained. This SiC VCO is the fundamental building block of the wireless frequency modulation (FM) circuitry and can be integrated with high temperature sensing elements for wireless sensing in space exploration and other extreme environment applications.","PeriodicalId":127644,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129769319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}