{"title":"Using a Commercial Framework to Implement and Enhance the IEEE 1451.1 Standard","authors":"V. Viegas, J. L. D. Pereira, P. Girão","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604552","url":null,"abstract":"In 1999, the 1451.1 std was published defining a common object model and interface specification to develop open, multi-vendor distributed measurement and control systems. However, despite the well-known advantages of the model, few have been the initiatives to implement it. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a NCAP - network capable application processor, in a well-known and well-proven infrastructure: the Microsoft .NET framework. The choice of a commercial framework was part of our strategy: to take advantage of several \"of the shelf\" technologies and adapt them to produce a NCAP prototype, called NCAP/XML. In addition, a solution to enhance the 1451.1 Std is presented by proposing a new format for inter-NCAP communication based on XML (extended markup language)","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133672799","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":"MPEG-7 Based Intellectual Digital Album","authors":"C. Kung, M. Devaney, R. Wu, H. Hsiao, Y.C. Lee","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604195","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the digital camera has become an essential personal accessory. The increased storage space of the memory cards result in difficulties of finding the desired photos in the traditional digital camera for the users. The described intellectual digital album is an innovative scheme to this problem. In this paper, several algorithms that can process digital content easily are employed for the implementation of the intellectual digital album prototype. The developed system can perform the feature extraction operation on the pictures in the database of photos and compare the acquired features automatically with the desired feature selected by the users to obtain the desired pictures. The proposed approach follows the MPEG-7's color, texture and shape descriptor and defines five feature selections","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133811327","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":"Detecting Localized Interspersed Motifs in Genomic Sequences","authors":"V. Jin, M. Turcotte","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604114","url":null,"abstract":"Repeated sequences account for a significant fraction of Eukaryotic genomes - nearly half of the human genome consists of repeated sequence elements. Several elements have been linked to diseases. Consequently, identifying and characterizing repeated elements is essential for understanding diseases at the molecular level. Repeated sequences vary from one genome to another and are therefore difficult to identify using sequence comparison methods alone. Certain gene families, such as the interferon gene family or the natural killer gene complex, have been found to be clustered together in the genome. Several observations have lead to the hypothesis that specific sequence repeats could be playing an important role in generating multigene families. Here, we define the concept of localized interspersed motifs and present a computational approach for detecting them","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133849785","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":"Tree-Structured HFB Based on Power Complementary Pairs for ADC Systems","authors":"Liu Zhiyu, Lin Maoliu","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604087","url":null,"abstract":"A near-perfect reconstruction tree-structured hybrid filter bank (HFB) is presented in this paper. The analog analysis filters to analyze input signals are not the lowpass, bandpass or highpass filters designed by using conventional methods, but the tree-structured analog filters based on power complementary pairs, whose parameters are optimized by genetic algorithm. And the digital synthesis filters are designed by means of the optimization method based on inverse fast Fourier transforms. 3rd-order and 5th-order analog power complementary filter pairs are designed for 4-channel tree-structure HFB. And length 63 FIR synthesis filters are implemented to ensure the near-perfect reconstruction. The HFB, which yields 1.06*10-7 dB average deviation from 0dB distortion and -111dB average aliasing, is suitable for ADC systems up to 15 bits resolution","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115417944","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. Orozco, Y. Asfaw, A. Adler, S. Shirmohammadi, A. El Saddik
{"title":"Automatic Identification of Participants in Haptic Systems","authors":"M. Orozco, Y. Asfaw, A. Adler, S. Shirmohammadi, A. El Saddik","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604262","url":null,"abstract":"Biometric systems identify of users based on behavioral or physiological characteristics. This paper explores the feasibility of automatically identifying participants in haptic systems. Such a biometric system would lead to important and interesting applications such as continuous authentication in tele-operation. In order to test this feasibility, we designed a haptic system in which position, velocity, force and torque data from the tool was continuously measured and stored. Using this system, users navigated a simple maze where the user generates a continuous path from start to finish. Subsequently, several algorithms were developed to extract characteristic biometric features from the measured data. A 78.8% probability of verification was observed for data from trained users. Overall, the paper suggests the possibility of extracting identity information in a real world haptic system","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124168741","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":"Switched Capacitor Signal Conditioning for Push-Pull Type Capacitive Sensors","authors":"B. George, V.J. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604244","url":null,"abstract":"A novel switched capacitor signal conditioning circuit is developed for differential capacitive sensors. The main advantage of the preferred method lies in the fact that it accepts sensors possessing either linear or inverse characteristics and provides a linear output. Moreover, the output is dependent only on a pair of DC reference voltages and the transformation constant of the sensor. Hence increased linearity and accuracy is easily achieved by employing precision DC reference voltages. Results from the tests on a prototype elucidate the practicality of the proposed method","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124307089","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}
J. Piera, R. Quesada, S. Shariat Panahi, A. Manuel-Lazaro
{"title":"Characterizing the Response of Aquatic Systems to Wind Burst Forcing by Using High-Resolution Spatial Sensors.","authors":"J. Piera, R. Quesada, S. Shariat Panahi, A. Manuel-Lazaro","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604077","url":null,"abstract":"The characterization of the turbulent environmental flow is an important research topic to improve the overall knowledge of ocean dynamics. In this paper we analyze different methodologies to characterize the event processes (turbulent patches) associated to the environmental turbulent flow. The analysis of the transient response from a wind burst has been used as a framework for determining the best method of turbulent characterization based on different measurement systems","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114669854","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. E. de Lucena, Marcos Silva de Aquino, A. Caporalli-Filho
{"title":"A Load Cell for Grain-Propelled Ballistic Rocket Thrust Measurement","authors":"S. E. de Lucena, Marcos Silva de Aquino, A. Caporalli-Filho","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604475","url":null,"abstract":"A 1000-kgf resistive strain-gauge load cell has been developed for quality testing of rocket propellant grain. A 7075-T6 aluminum alloy has been used for the elastic column, in which 8 uniaxial, 120-Omega strain gauges have been bonded and connected to form a full Wheatstone bridge to detect the strain. The chosen geometry makes the transducer insensitive to moments and, also, to the temperature. Experimental tests using a universal testing machine to imposed compression force to the load cell have demonstrated that its behavior is linear, with sensitivity of 2.90 muV/kgf plusmn0.34%, and negligible hysteresis. The designed force transducer response to a dynamic test has been comparable to that of a commercial load cell","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117251126","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":"Modeling Software Driven Power Consumption","authors":"G. Cameron","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604540","url":null,"abstract":"Power management issues are a major factor that threatens to curtail the progress of Moore's law in the 21st century (Borkar and Malone, 2004). Techniques to calculate and optimize the power consumption of hardware components are well known and understood, yet there exists no formal technique for modeling the effect of running software on the power dissipation for an arbitrary system. System designers have been forced to over design systems based on worst case estimates, or make design changes based on empirical measurements after the hardware and software is complete. Since there exists no formal method for modeling how software affects power dissipation, there is no way to optimize the software to minimize power consumption. This paper demonstrates a formal approach towards establishing a power consumption model for any processor running on an arbitrary target. Power consumption models are developed and tested for three DSPs with radically different internal architecture through the use of modeling, measurement, and statistical techniques","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116006987","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":"Vibration Monitoring of On-Load Tap Changers Using a Genetic Algorithm","authors":"E. Simas, L. D. de Almeida, A.C. de Lima","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604585","url":null,"abstract":"On load tap changers (OLTC) are widely used for voltage regulation in electricity networks. Noninvasive vibration methods for condition monitoring of internal electrical contacts have been recently proposed in the literature. The vibration signals emitted during the tap changes are usually recorded and post-processed using spectral analysis and some pattern classifier technique. To reduce the complexity of the classifier, a new technique based on genetic algorithm is proposed in this paper. A description of the data acquisition system and the corresponding collected experimental data are presented. The proposed technique is detailed and preliminary experimental results are discussed","PeriodicalId":244878,"journal":{"name":"2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116307567","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}