{"title":"Compression of partially specified test vectors in an ATE environment","authors":"F. Karimi, Y. Kim, F. Lombardi, N. Park","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207902","url":null,"abstract":"The manufacturing test of today's digital chips requires new design considerations for automatic test equipment (ATE). Compression has been used in ATE to reduce storage and application time for high volume data by exploiting the repetitive nature of test vectors. This paper deals with compression of partially specified test sets, i.e. vectors with don't care (unspecified, X) entries. A proper X assignment can be used to enhance the potential for compression by introducing similarities among vectors (correlation). This paper provides a comprehensive treatment of the X assignment for compression within fixed order and reordered test sets. For fixed order the X assignment is based on a novel technique referred to as bit-wise correlation. Using a matrix representation of the test set, X entries located in the same position in the vectors are analyzed and Boolean values assigned based on three criteria (column-wise bit-correlation). Once the fully specified test set is generated, an appropriate compression technique is used. If reordering is allowed, the process of X assignment is substantially different. Reordering is accomplished through a variation of column-wise bit-assignment, namely pair-wise bit-correlation. Pair-wise bit-correlation restricts the analysis to vector pairs as a heuristic condition for generating the new ordered test set. Simulation results are provided to support the viability of the proposed approach to compress test set with partially specified vectors.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115248073","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":"Scaling issues in robot-based sensing missions","authors":"Mel Siegel","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207999","url":null,"abstract":"Scaling analysis provides a systematic way to translate the performance of a system from one size domain, operating environment, etc., to another. In this paper, we identify scaling issues and present some simple results in the domain of individual mobile robots, as well as teams, swarms, etc., deployed on sensing missions. Since most robot-based sensing missions anticipate mini-, micro-, and nano-scale robots, our explicit examples focus on scaling-down of existing human-scale robot design and concepts. However the principles articulated apply equally to scaling-up situations. The topic is introduced via a simple example that shows why scaling-down of mobile robots that carry their own energy source will generally prove impractical: to obtain reasonable operating times it will rather be necessary to develop small robots into which energy can be beamed, or which can forage for energy sources in the environment. From this concrete illustrative example, the paper moves on to a higher level discussion of robot architecture and the applicability of scaling principles, to varying degrees, to all the modules, i.e., it is not exclusively a mobility issue. There follows a short discussion of how changes of scale are not inherently problematic, but to the contrary, in many cases suitable scale change provides the key to solving a difficult engineering problem. The final section is a quantitative example in which design and operating parameters of the robotic nodes of a sensor network are considered from the perspective of operating time limited by the energy cost of node-to-node communication. This example powerfully illustrates a system in which fairly modest changes contemplated range of engineering parameters result in enormous changes in the anticipated operating time of the system.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115380118","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}
E. Trullols, J. Sorribas, J. del Río, C. Samitier, A. Mànuel, R. Palomera
{"title":"LabVir: a virtual distributed measurement system","authors":"E. Trullols, J. Sorribas, J. del Río, C. Samitier, A. Mànuel, R. Palomera","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208261","url":null,"abstract":"AB - Wrlud inslrumnenls and advances in networking technology make if possible lo implemrnl moddur dislribulrd measuremenis and compuilng syslems. Sharing resources ond the eliminvlion of obsrocles inrroduced by communimlion networks could be the kq Io open lhe doors IO a new measuremen1 philosophy, in which vinuol instrumenis will ploy an imporlon1 role. Thanks Io lhis workingprinciple, il is possible lo correloie doin from diflerennr experimenls or eomplemenr one experiment wifh information gorhered from the local environmenl 01 my orher remole sire. This paper describes fhi amd 11a1us of the LobYir projeer that we arc carrying out i* order lo model old implemenl dirlribuled meoreh in lhe Sponish oeeoaographic vessels. Userinlerfveer based on Web leehnologv, will allow fdcndly accessibility from onyploee wifh HTTPcmnecIivi@. Experimenis fools will br oceerrible using my kind of the ovdnble internet browsers.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114607055","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":"Color edge detection in presence of gaussian noise using nonlinear pre-filtering","authors":"F. Russo, A. Lazzari","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208219","url":null,"abstract":"A new technique for edge detection in color images corrupted by Gaussian noise is presented. The proposed method adopts a multipass processing approach that gradually reduces the noise in the R, G, and B components of the image. The prefiltering steps are specifically designed to operate in conjunction with the edge detection algorithm. They adopt two different models for data smoothing that aim at avoiding false edges produced by noise and at preserving the image details during noise removal. The subsequent algorithm for edge detection has been designed to further decrease the sensitivity to noise of the overall method. Thus, accurate edge maps can be achieved even in the presence of highly corrupted data. Results of computer simulations show that the proposed approach significantly improves our previous methods and performs better than other techniques in the literature.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127165702","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":"Support vector machine for image based automated inspection system","authors":"Chien-Ting Kuo, C. Kung, C. Kung, J. Jeng","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208218","url":null,"abstract":"ut -This paper focused on the actual applications of suppon vector machines (SVW connected with uutomated inspection scheme by utilizing the digital imageprocessing techniques. Such a system is capable of performing real-time image processing tasks and identifies the size and location of thefinished components on manufacturedproducts as well as theflaw and scrutches on surface ofproducts during the manufacturing process. The SVM embedded quality management system provides a user-friendly user interface that has been implemented and tested on a case study from the surface of credit card inspection. The experimental results have demonstruted the functionality and superiority of the developed SVM embedded inspection system.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127550764","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 fpga based rf link for power and full duplex data transfer","authors":"M. Yeary, W. Zhang, K. Wong","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125351981","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":"Bore reconstruction of tubular ducts from its acoustic input impedance curve","authors":"W. Kausel","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207901","url":null,"abstract":"In order to get accurate bore information of tubular objects from acoustical input impedance measurements an optimization approach is proposed and investigated. A suitable waveguide model is reviewed and reconstruction results are presented. Sensitivity of input impedance magnitude to bore variation indicates, that axial accuracy can be improved, without increasing the sampling rate. Advantages of the method are its increased numerical stability, its tolerance to white noise on top of measured data, no requirement to measure phase, and the fact, that measured data need not to be contiguous in the frequency domain. Frequency bands, which are difficult to measure, can be omitted.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128147181","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}
R. Freire, F. Santos, R.N.C. Alves, A. T. Barros, B. Luciano
{"title":"Static error in the temperature constant measurement configurations due to DC amplifier offset voltage","authors":"R. Freire, F. Santos, R.N.C. Alves, A. T. Barros, B. Luciano","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208021","url":null,"abstract":"The DC amplifier offset voltage introduces dynamic and static errors in measurements based on heated sensors at constant temperature configuration. It is shown, in the case of a radiometer, the variation of static errors in function of offset voltage for configurations of feedback based on analogic voltage control and on pulse width modulation - PWM. These errors increase with offset voltage and are similar in PWM configuration, decreasing with pulse amplitude.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126067839","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":"Event controlled sampling system for marine research","authors":"R. Jaskulke, B. Himmel","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207984","url":null,"abstract":"One important task in marine research is the investigation of processes of particle exchange and transport using filtration sampler, bottom water sampler sediment traps or other equipment. In this paper, we describe modular hardware solution (microcontroller, flash-memory, analog-to-digital converter, system interface) together with a user-friendly software which is suitable for event-referred control of systems, which have to work autonomously for longer periods.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127513935","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":"Building a mobile robot for a floor-cleaning operation in domestic environments","authors":"J. Palacín, J. A. Salse, I. Valgañón, X. Clua","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2003.1207979","url":null,"abstract":"Domestic robots are one of the new industrial challenges. The cleaning robots market is expected to grow with an unpredictable and incredible way. In this paper, a floor-cleaning robot specifically designed for this function is proposed. Aspects as sensors placement, motor control and robot control are considered towards an optimal implementation of this helpful robot.","PeriodicalId":135321,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Instrumentation Technology Conference (Cat. No.03CH37412)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126565471","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}