P. Harpe, Yuting Shen, Hanyue Li, Kevin Pelzers, Haoming Xin, E. Cantatore
{"title":"Ultra Low Power Event-Driven Sensor Interfaces","authors":"P. Harpe, Yuting Shen, Hanyue Li, Kevin Pelzers, Haoming Xin, E. Cantatore","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164620","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews several examples of ultra low power sensor interfaces for IoT applications. In such applications, the sensing operation is often performed at a relatively low frequency, and sometimes it is heavily duty-cycled, or it should be triggered by particular events or thresholds. The paper reviews why dynamic sensor interface architectures are a good choice in this context, and gives several design examples that can operate dynamically and that can be triggered by a single clock pulse. Suitable ADC design strategies are explained, and two exemplary sensor interfaces are described: a capacitive sensor interface, and a resistor-based temperature sensor interface including analog correction techniques. Both designs are reviewed and the main features in terms of efficiency and performance are discussed.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128840730","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}
L. Barretta, R. Scaldaferri, A. Esposito, P. Barbato, V. Casuscelli
{"title":"Effect of poling on piezoelectric performances of Nb-doped BZT-BCT prototypes","authors":"L. Barretta, R. Scaldaferri, A. Esposito, P. Barbato, V. Casuscelli","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164421","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports the ferroelectric-piezoelectric characteristic of Nb doped BZT-BCT sol gel thin films pristine and after an optimized poling process. Displacement spectrum of cantilever is reported for pristine and poled state. The two spectra comparison clearly outlines the effectiveness of poling treatment.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122530465","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}
André M. P. Mattos, D. Santos, Carolina Imianosky, D. Melo, L. Dilillo
{"title":"Using HARV-SoC for Reliable Sensing Applications in Radiation Harsh Environments","authors":"André M. P. Mattos, D. Santos, Carolina Imianosky, D. Melo, L. Dilillo","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164578","url":null,"abstract":"Sensing systems are present in most application domains, including those in harsh environments. These systems are often designed around processing units sensitive to these environmental conditions. Still, the systems must withstand extreme operational conditions in these environments and maintain consistent measurements. In this work, we present the challenges imposed by radiation effects in sensing applications and discuss the utilization of a fault-tolerant RISC-V System-on-Chip, the HARV-SoC, to mitigate their impact. The HARV-SoC comprises peripherals and the fault-tolerant HARV core, which relies on hardening strategies, such as physical and information redundancy, to meet the requirements of critical applications targeting harsh environments and reduce the propagation of errors. Hence, we guide how to employ the proposed system in sensing applications and empower the community with a new tool for reliability-oriented projects.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"314 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122805902","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}
C. Aramo, E. Bissaldi, M. Bitossi, G. Robertis, L. Venere, F. Giordano, Simone Incardona, F. Licciulli, Pierpaolo Loizzo, S. Loporchio, G. Marsella, F. Pantaleo, R. Paoletti, G. Tripodo
{"title":"Characterization of the upgraded Frontend Electronics of the Shwarzschild-Couder Telescope based on the SMART ASIC","authors":"C. Aramo, E. Bissaldi, M. Bitossi, G. Robertis, L. Venere, F. Giordano, Simone Incardona, F. Licciulli, Pierpaolo Loizzo, S. Loporchio, G. Marsella, F. Pantaleo, R. Paoletti, G. Tripodo","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164617","url":null,"abstract":"We present the characterization of the new Frontend Electronics (FEE) developed for the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) camera of the CTA experiment. The new FEE is based on a new Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) intended to read-out arrays of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) for low-level light detection down to the single photoelectron, called SMART (SiPM Multichannel ASIC for high Resolution Cherenkov Telescopes). The analog channel is composed of a high speed path with programmable gain and pole-zero filter designed for photon-counting. An external fast digitizer can be used for the photon-counting analysis. A slow path allows the measurement of the mean SiPM current, sampled by an internal 10-bit ADC. We present the characterization results obtained when coupling the SMART to a 16 SiPM matrix produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). Results in terms of charge spectrum, signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range will be presented. The SMART ASIC was then coupled to the SCT readout electronics based on the TARGET ASICs, able to digitize waveforms at a frequency of 1GS/s and to generate trigger signals. In this work, we further present the preliminary characterization obtained on the full FEE chain.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"150 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124611104","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":"Lightweight Secure Keys Management Based on Physical Unclonable Functions","authors":"M. Barbareschi, V. Casola, Daniele Lombardi","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164402","url":null,"abstract":"The concept behind Internet of Things (IoT) involves connecting physical objects to the internet and endowing them with the ability to identify one another and exchange data. This communication paradigm arises new security challenges. Mainly, authenticity of network nodes, to let ones with malicious intent not thrive in such a network; and confidentiality, when sensitive data have to be exchanged. Most classical security techniques are not suitable to address such issues, especially in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) where network nodes are developed using resource-constrained devices. Consequently, the scientific literature has been starting to investigate how Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), a unique digital identifier obtained from physical variability induced by integrated circuit manufacturing process, could be exploited to provide security mechanisms. In this paper, we present ConPHEMAP, a new lightweight PUF-based key management-scheme for point-to-point communications. The proposed scheme extends the PHEMAP protocol and inherits same properties, including flexibility since can be adopted either in the case where both nodes are provided with PUFs or when only one of them includes it. We also conducted a security analysis to verify the protocol resilience against different kinds of attacks, which proves its suitability in a heterogeneous insecure context such as WSNs.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126564619","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":"Thin film electronic devices marry lab-on-chip applications","authors":"D. Caputo","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164460","url":null,"abstract":"Lab-on-Chip technology is gaining great interest due to the many possibilities that it offers in the fields of life sciences, from parallel analysis in genomics to point-of-care devices in medical diagnostics. At the beginning, Lab-on-Chip devices essentially consisted of a microfluidic network that miniaturized the analytical procedures leading to faster reaction kinetics and lower sample and reagents consumption. Recent devices integrate several functional modules, that allow all the functions of a human-scale test laboratory including transferring samples, drawing off a precise volume of a chemical product, reagent mixing, DNA extraction, detection and quantification of biomolecules.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132039204","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 novel interface architecture for differential capacitive sensors","authors":"G. Barile, Paolo Esposito, V. Stornelli, G. Ferri","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164374","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we propose an analog fully differential interface for capacitive sensors. The working principle of the proposed solution is based on an auto-balancing bridge topology entirely formed by capacitive components. In particular, two capacitors form the sensor, while other components are voltage-controlled capacitors (VCCs) which in steady-state conditions follow sensor capacitor values through a negative feedback performing the zero-convergence of the differential output at the bridge. Theoretical curves involving VCCs control voltages have been extracted and compared with experimental values on a discrete component printed circuit board (PCB), showing very good agreement. The effect of parasitic capacitances have been also considered from evaluations on the PCB, obtaining that their contribution increases if the reference baseline capacitance of the auto-balanced bridge decreases. This study opens to further investigations about modeling and compensation of these capacitance sensors.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129046822","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":"Session 1: Sensor systems for autonomous driving","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/iwasi58316.2023.10164437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iwasi58316.2023.10164437","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128345561","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. R. Altamura, A. Mauro, E. Nappi, N. Nicassio, M. V. Emmerik, G. Volpe
{"title":"Aerogel characterization for RICH applications","authors":"A. R. Altamura, A. Mauro, E. Nappi, N. Nicassio, M. V. Emmerik, G. Volpe","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164359","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the optical parameters of recently produced hydrophobic silica aerogel tiles with various refractive indeces will be presented. Each tile has been characterized at different positions in terms of transmittance, scattering, absorption and transmission lengths. Optical properties of two aerogel tiles produced in 2000 have also been investigated. The main results will be shown and some conclusions will be drawn.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131144394","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}
Phillip Trummer, T. Polonelli, J. Deparday, I. Abdallah, M. Magno
{"title":"Blade Position and Motion Estimation on the Surface of a Rotating Wind Turbine Through a Single MEMS IMU","authors":"Phillip Trummer, T. Polonelli, J. Deparday, I. Abdallah, M. Magno","doi":"10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI58316.2023.10164363","url":null,"abstract":"Wind turbines have played a significant role in the transition toward renewable energy sources. Accurately determining the position and motion of the rotor blades has emerged as a crucial feature for advancing their adoption and widespread use. The problem addressed in this paper is the use of a single low-power and cost-effective Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) mounted on a wind turbine blade for position and motion estimation. Standard attitude algorithms can be used to estimate the position of a sensor relative to the earth’s frame. However, they cannot extract information about additional blade features, such as the pitch angle or the occurrence of flap-wise deflections. This paper establishes a novel framework that facilitates the identification and estimation of dynamic wind turbine angles by defining appropriate reference frames. Experimentally acquired IMU data is used to extract rotation matrices that establish the relationship between reference frames. Experimental results show the possibility of estimating the blade orientation, deflection, and twist with a $approx 1^{circ}$ precision, in addition to the relative blade altitude with an error of 5 mm.","PeriodicalId":261827,"journal":{"name":"2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132451827","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}