{"title":"Improved Measurement System for the Evaluation of GNSS Receivers for Timing Applications","authors":"Á. Hollós, T. Kovácsházy","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128492","url":null,"abstract":"Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are distributed systems, which intensively interact with their environment, which they are seamlessly embedded into. Some CPS solutions must operate in real-time, as the embedding application is safety-critical, such as industrial control systems in Industry 4.0 applications or vehicular networks (e.g., Automotive/TSN Ethernet). The centerpiece of real-time operation is time synchronization, i.e., the nodes of the system must establish a common knowledge of time by exchanging messages over the standard communication channel. For this purpose, the IEEE 1588 protocol and its derivatives were developed. However, devices supporting IEEE 1588 are expensive for educational purposes and use closed software, making modifications for research impossible. Therefore, our larger goal is to create a low-cost IEEE 1588 master clock on an Open Hardware, Open Software basis to facilitate education and research. For this, one of the first steps is the selection of a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System, e.g. GPS) receiver. However, this is not a straightforward task; the different receivers need to be carefully evaluated by collecting and analyzing empirical data. So, we created a measurement system to compare, analyze, and evaluate different GNSS receivers. In this paper, we introduce the measurement system improved with time measuring capabilities and describe its theory of operation. Then we present the results and conclusions of an 11-day comparison measurement between a u-blox NEO-M8T timing receiver and a low-cost Quectel L86 general-purpose receiver with timing functions (our initial choices for implementation).","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"492 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124570159","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. Balestrieri, L. D. Vito, F. Picariello, S. Rapuano, IOAN TUDOSA
{"title":"A TDoA-based Measurement Method for RF Emitters Localization by Exploiting Wideband Compressive Sampling","authors":"E. Balestrieri, L. D. Vito, F. Picariello, S. Rapuano, IOAN TUDOSA","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129267","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) based method for the localization of Radio Frequency (RF) emitters working at different carriers, by using wideband spectrum sensors exploiting compressive sampling. The proposed measurement method is based on four or more RF receivers, with known Cartesian positions, performing non uniform sampling on the received signal. By means of simulations, the method has been compared against a localization method adopting RF receivers performing uniform sampling at Nyquist rate. The obtained preliminary results demonstrate that the method is capable of localizing two RF emitters achieving the same results obtained with uniform sampling, with a compression ratio up to CR = 20.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129669925","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":"Impedance Measurement Solution Based on the High Time Resolution DSP","authors":"Olev Märtens, R. Land, M. Min, P. Annus, M. Rist","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128843","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient way to develop the almost-single-chip impedance measurement device is to use the off-the-shelf Digital Signal Processor (DSP) with the on-chip pulse-width-modulator(s) (PWM) to generate the multifrequency excitation signals, ADC to acquire the response (and optionally excitation) signals for further real-time Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) for complex impedance estimation, DMA-controller for efficient data transfers in data acquisition etc.Such innovative and efficient in various aspects (cost, speed, accuracy) impedance spectrum measurement device, based on the TMS320F28069 DSP chip of Texas Instruments having close to 12-bit-resolution in 1MHz range and taking 1000 impedance spectras every second has been previously developed by the authors. Still, as shown here, the solution can be significantly improved by innovative using of the high-resolution timing features of the on-chip PWM modules - as well as for generation of the binary waveforms for the excitations with improved spectral content, as well as for precise control of timing of ADC sampling with uniform and non-uniform sampling schemes, improving the accuracy of the solution, by an order. Furthermore, the newer version of the similar DSP, like TMS320F28377 with enhanced multiple 16-bit ADCs with high-resolution PWM and having more digital processing power, helps further to improve the performance of the solution.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129684240","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":"Research on Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Two-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network","authors":"Yuhang Wang, He-sheng Zhang, Xiaotao Hu","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128699","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the problem that traditional bearing fault diagnosis methods rely on artificial feature extraction and expert experience, this paper proposes an adaptive bearing fault diagnosis method based on two-dimensional convolutional neural network. In order to retain the features of the original fault data to the greatest extent, the original signal is directly used as the input, and the two-dimensional convolutional neural network fault diagnosis model is used to perform adaptive hierarchical feature extraction, and optimization algorithms are used to improve the performance of the test set. The experimental results show that this method can achieve a fault recognition rate of more than 99% on the bearing data set, and shows good generalization performance under different loads, which is feasible for practical applications.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120959810","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":"Large structures natural frequencies estimation using a limited number of sensors","authors":"S. Turrisi, E. Zappa, A. Cigada, T. Hötzer","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129009","url":null,"abstract":"Security and safety issues are of major concern when considering large civil structures hosting many people. In recent years, this led to a growing interest towards monitoring solutions able to automatically evaluate the dynamic behaviour of the structure. Numerous studies confirm the possibility to correlate structural health with the evolution of its modal parameters, meaning that a change may indicate a modification of structure properties and a possible ongoing damage. This work is part of a long-lasting project which involves Politecnico di Milano in the continuous development of a complete Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system for the G. Meazza stadium in Milan. The paper proposes a robust approach to estimate the main natural frequencies of a structure using the vibration data of a limited number of sensors. This comes from the necessity that, in case of complex buildings like a stadium, a balance between costs and system performance must be found. Environmental conditions can strongly modify the dynamic behaviour of a structure, sometimes masking variations due to other \"abnormal\" changes, i.e. a stiffness reduction due to structure degradation. Thus, the relationship between temperature and the estimated frequencies is investigated here using regression models, aiming at compensating for the temperature effects.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121194258","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":"Three-dimensional Reconstruction and Measurement of Avian Eggs through Digital Imaging","authors":"Wasif Shafaet Chowdhury, Gang Lu, M. Hossain","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129156","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a computer vision-based method for the 3-D (three-dimensional) reconstruction and characterization of avian eggs. Two low-cost cameras are used to acquire images of eggs from top and side views, respectively. The image segmentation is performed using the image binarization technique. The contour-slice based method is employed for the 3-D reconstruction. The geometrical parameters of avian eggs, such as length, breadth, volume and surface area, are then computed based on the reconstructed model. The performance of the system is evaluated using eggs from different breeds and sizes. Comparative results between the physical measurement and the proposed approach suggest that the digital imaging approach has an overall accuracy of 98% for the geometrical parameter measurement of avian eggs.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126253388","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 Dual Synchronous Demodulator for Phase Sensitive Detection Applications","authors":"A. Márquez, N. Medrano, B. Calvo, J. Pérez-Bailón","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129599","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an on-chip dual phase sensitive detector with an embedded multi tunable low-pass filter for impedance spectroscopy applications. Rectification process is achieved with a four switches demodulator, while DC components of target impedance are obtained by means of a first order fully differential low-pass filter. This Synchronous Demodulator (SD) system is programmable in gain (from 0 to 20 dB) with a 2-bit resolution and its cut-off frequency is tunable in a wide frequency range (from few Hz up to few hundreds of kHz). Phase recovery errors remain below 1.7° and are systematic, and hence easily compensated. Power consumption of SD is 36.1 p.W for a 1.8 V single supply implementation, thus making it suitable to be embedded in an integrated impedance measurement system.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126389304","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}
Mohamed Abdelazez, Fereshteh Fakhar Firouzeh, S. Rajan, A. Chan
{"title":"Multi-Stage Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Compressively Sensed Electrocardiogram","authors":"Mohamed Abdelazez, Fereshteh Fakhar Firouzeh, S. Rajan, A. Chan","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9128396","url":null,"abstract":"Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a cardiac condition that can be asymptomatic and can lead to increase risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. Long term monitoring of ECG is typically used to diagnose AF. However, long term monitoring of ECG generates a large amount of data that can increase power consumption, storage requirements, and wireless transmission bandwidth. Compressive Sensing (CS) is a compression technique that reduces the amount of data collected and the power consumption of ECG recording devices. However, reconstruction of compressively sensed ECG is a computationally expensive technique. This paper proposes a two-stage AF detection system that detects AF in the compressed domain and only reconstructs ECG segments with low detection confidence to confirm the detection of AF. The system was tested using the Long-Term Atrial Fibrillation Database (LTAFDB) available on Physionet. The system is based on Random Forest built using features extracted using discrete cosine transform, statistical methods, empirical mode decomposition, and wavelet transform. The system achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operator curve of 0.95 at 50% and 75% compression. The weighted average precision (AP) was 0.94 at 50% and 75% compression, and the F1 score was 0.90 and 0.91 at 50% and 75% compression, respectively. The system was tested using 10-fold record-based cross-validation. Confirming AF detection by reconstructing ECG where AF was detected with low confidence has improved AP, AUC, and F1 score over using an AF detector in the compressed domain only while judicially increasing usage of computational resources.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128079743","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":"Artificial Classification System for Urothelial Carcinoma","authors":"Yu-Chieh Chen, Chih-Chieh Huang, Da-Ren Liu, C. Hwang, Wei-Chen Lin, Chao-Tian Hsu","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129311","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an artificial classification system (ACUC) that can be applied to cases of urothelial carcinoma. The ACUC was combined with a microscopy system to enable cell images to be captured from slides and subsequently transferred to a computer for classification. We introduce a two-stage convolutional neural network (CNN) model to classify high-grade urothelial carcinoma. The complexity of the CNN architecture can be reduced using a single CNN model. The ACUC was tested on 600 segments of cell sample images, which were provided by the E-DA hospital, and the results indicated that the accuracy of the ACUC is approximately 88%.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128122001","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}
M. D’Arco, L. Angrisani, P. Monsurrò, A. Trifiletti
{"title":"High-speed AWG exploiting parallel time interleaved DAC cores","authors":"M. D’Arco, L. Angrisani, P. Monsurrò, A. Trifiletti","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129138","url":null,"abstract":"An arbitrary waveform generator architecture that exploits multiple DAC cores to increase the sample rate with respect to AWG architectures based on an individual DAC is proposed. The processing operations necessary to distribute the waveform samples between the DAC cores are illustrated. The preliminary results highlighting the performance expected from the proposed architecture are shown.","PeriodicalId":227967,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125251301","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}