P. Niewczas, L. Dziuda, G. Fusiek, A. J. Willshire, J. R. McDonald, G. Thursby, D. Harvey, W. Michie
{"title":"Interrogation of extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors using arrayed waveguide grating devices","authors":"P. Niewczas, L. Dziuda, G. Fusiek, A. J. Willshire, J. R. McDonald, G. Thursby, D. Harvey, W. Michie","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007212","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present details of a solid state interrogation system based on a 16-channel arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) for interrogation of extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric (EFPI) sensors. The sensing element is configured in a reflecting mode and is illuminated by a broad-band light source through an optical fiber. The spectrum of light reflected from the sensor is analyzed using an AWG device acting as a coarse spectrometer. Using measurement points from the AWG channels, the original spectrum of the sensing element is reconstructed by a means of curve fitting. This allows sufficient information for the position of the reflection peak (or inverted peak) to be uniquely determined and the value of a measurement quantity obtained. In addition to the theoretical simulations of the proposed measurement system, we provide details of the laboratory evaluation using an EFPI strain sensor.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"283 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131851828","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":"Virtual instrument for recording and wavelet based analysis of ECG signals","authors":"A. Jóśko, R. Rak","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007182","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper the solution of the measuring system for ECG signal recording and identification is presented. The project aims at designing the complete PC-based virtual instrument as \"a testing platform\" for acquisition, processing, presenting and distributing ECG data. The proposed system acquires data, from which ECG signals are extracted. The processing stage involving discrete wavelet transform is used to detect QRS complexes in the recorded signal. Results can he presented in oscilloscope type sub-windows, stored to disk or sent through network to a qualified physician. The presentation is illustrated with simulations, experimental data coming from real system measurements and data taken from MIT-BIH public database.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134131242","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}
G. Giakos, S. Chowdhury, N. Shah, S. Guntupalli, S. Vedantham, S. Suryanarayanan, R. Nemer, A. Dasgupta, K. Mehta, N. Patnekar
{"title":"Optimization of the signal dispersion parameters of a dual-energy multimedia imaging sensor","authors":"G. Giakos, S. Chowdhury, N. Shah, S. Guntupalli, S. Vedantham, S. Suryanarayanan, R. Nemer, A. Dasgupta, K. Mehta, N. Patnekar","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006863","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, experimental results on the signal dispersion of a multimedia imaging detector, operating on gaseous solid state ionization principles, with specific emphasis on single x-ray exposure dual-energy radiography, are presented. The results of this study indicate that the multimedia detector technology exhibits excellent signal characteristics suitable for a large number of imaging applications. On the other hand, drift distance causes significant effect on both the amplitude and full-width at half maximum (FWHM) due to mobility dispersion and space-charge. An improved signal results with increasing gas pressure.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115097474","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 microcontroller-based data logger for physiological sensing","authors":"E. Luharuka, R. Gao","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006836","url":null,"abstract":"The design and implementation of a microcontroller-based data logger for recording physiological data is presented. The device is designed to receive galvanic skin response (GSR) data from a commercial GSR instrument, store them on its on-board memory, and relay them later to a computer via the serial port. The focus of the design is on portability and low power consumption for battery-driven ambulatory applications. A special data compression algorithm is developed to optimize the on-board memory usage and reduce the data transfer time to a computer. A PIC microcontroller is used as the central control unit for the data flow coordination. The data logger prototype measures 18/spl times/9/spl times/3 cm, and can be readily miniaturized using SMT or hybrid techniques.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114192871","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}
G. Iuculano, A. Zanobini, A. Lazzari, G. P. Gualtieri
{"title":"Measurement uncertainty in a multivariate model: A novel approach","authors":"G. Iuculano, A. Zanobini, A. Lazzari, G. P. Gualtieri","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007147","url":null,"abstract":"The confidence region and the related confidence level are the bases for the uncertainty expression in a measurement process. In this work a multivariate model is considered and different situations with respect the parameters constituting the model are examined. Computational results are reported and analysed to asses the validity of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114560261","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 introductory concept to 'Human like' odor descriptions by grounding linguistic symbols","authors":"Ayoub Loutfi, S. Coradeschi, P. Wide","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006815","url":null,"abstract":"When humans fail to recognize a new odor we rely on our previous knowledge of known odors to describe linguistically the attributes, quality or even the experience surrounding the detected smell. Meanwhile, for an electronic nose a new odor is encoded in the form of numerical patterns and is recognized by signal processing and pattern recognition techniques. In this paper we present a system that is capable of interpreting the results from an electronic nose by using linguistic terms to generate a description of the sample. We have shown that unknown odors can be described by using combinations of known odor terms. Furthermore, we show that the odor of a substance can be used to establish the quality of that substance by generating an appropriate description. To obtain the sensor results for linguistic processing, two biologically inspired designs of an electronic nose were tested. The specifications of both these electronic noses are presented. A large part of the system involves a combination of different data processing techniques such Principal Component Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy classification. It was found that the success of the data processing improved when several techniques were used in combination rather than using one technique alone. The novelty of this work is in the final phase of the system that generates a multi-part linguistic description associating sensor results to a more human like representation.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115441622","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 innovative approach to the determination of uncertainty in measurements based on fuzzy variables","authors":"A. Ferrero, S. Salicone","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006844","url":null,"abstract":"The determination of the uncertainty of the result of a measurement is presently attained by means of a statistical inference, as suggested by the IEC-ISO Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurements. This approach has been proved to be not totally viable when the result of the measurement comes from a complex elaboration of the input signals. The paper proposes the application of the fuzzy variables and mathematics to the determination of the uncertainty, since they appear to be able to describe the possible distribution of the results of a measurement in a more effective way than the statistical approach. The fundamentals of the employed mathematics are recalled, and applied to the determination of the uncertainty in power measurements. The results obtained by the proposed method are compared with those obtained experimentally.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123664604","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":"Quality evaluation of virtual instrumentation for power system harmonics investigations-multichannel signal conditioning problems","authors":"Z. Staroszczyk, A. Kalicki","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007088","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper the signal conditioning and A/D conversion problems in multichannel power signals acquisition are discussed. The power signals are relatively difficult to process as they need to be isolated from the line, and conditioned by different construction voltage and current transducers. In special situations the voltage and current paths have to be as close as possible: the tolerated level discrepancy is of 1 per cent and relative phase shift is of a few degrees in the 10 kHz frequency range. To get such channel accuracy, special attention should be given to any stage of signal processing: analog signal conditioning, interchannel crosstalks, signal multiplexing etc. The problems of high accuracy channel realizations are discussed, and illustrated with experimental data. Three channel voltage and three channel current conditioning circuits, targeted to three phase power system observations in 10 kHz frequency range, have been compared. The presented paper is focused on problems, which are commonly neglected in standard DSP.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122793646","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":"Miniature high-G acceleration recorder","authors":"Z. Zhijie, Zu Jing, Yang Zhigang, Shen Xiangnan","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1007178","url":null,"abstract":"The paper introduces a kind of miniature high-G acceleration recorder based on stored and measuring technology. This new acceleration recorder was developed to used for shock testing in a wide field of applications. The instrumentation has been demonstrated to function in shock environments up to 50000 g. Several experimental results are given, and validity of the instrumentation was verified.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124194094","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":"Improved 1 kHz capacitance calibration uncertainty","authors":"A. Jeffery, A. Koffman","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2002.1006818","url":null,"abstract":"Uncertainties for 1 kHz capacitance calibrations have been decreased at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The improvements are based on frequency-dependence characterization from 1592 Hz to 1 kHz. The relevant measurements and the traceability procedures from the calculable capacitor to the customer calibration are described.","PeriodicalId":141111,"journal":{"name":"IMTC/2002. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37276)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125268176","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}