G. Betta, D. Capriglione, M. Gasparetto, E. Zappa, C. Liguori, A. Paolillo
{"title":"Managing the uncertainty for face classification with 3D features","authors":"G. Betta, D. Capriglione, M. Gasparetto, E. Zappa, C. Liguori, A. Paolillo","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860778","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an original methodology for the improvement of the reliability of results in classification systems based on 3D images. More in detail, it is based on the knowledge of the uncertainty of the features constituting the 3D image and on a suitable statistical approach providing a confidence level to the classification result. These pieces of information are then managed in order to improve the classification performance. The first experiments show that, compared with a traditional approach (which generally does not take into account the uncertainty on 3D features), the proposed methodology allows to significantly improve the classification performance even in a scenario characterized by a high uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128216408","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}
Fernando Bagalciague, C. S. Roman, M. Arocena, H. Suarez, Enrique D. Ferreira, N. Pena
{"title":"Unstable gait assessment with a portable analysis system","authors":"Fernando Bagalciague, C. S. Roman, M. Arocena, H. Suarez, Enrique D. Ferreira, N. Pena","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860729","url":null,"abstract":"An inertial sensor based gait analysis system is presented. Standard gait parameters, feet and hip ranges of motion (ROMs) and hip peak velocities, in medio-lateral and anterior-posterior directions, are validated in different experiments, including footswitches, treadmill, long walk and motion capture system. The mean of relative root-mean-square errors for gait cycle, stance, stride length, stride velocity and feet ROMs in low and medium velocities, is below 5%. Standard gait parameters for a control group of fourteen healthy young adults are compared with previous studies, showing consistent results. This control group is also compared to a group of eleven unstable adults to determine main discrimination parameters. Significant differences (p <; 0.05) are found for cadence, normalized speed, normalized stride length, anterior-posterior feet ROM, medio-lateral hip ROM and medio-lateral hip peak velocity. These results suggest that basic gait parameters, together with feet and hip ROMs and peak velocities, might differentiate unstable subjects from healthy young adults.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114336558","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":"Measurement platform of mains zero crossing period for powerline communication","authors":"Souha Souissi, Ons Ben Rhouma, C. Rebai","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860520","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the mains signal behavior and non-idealities impact on zero crossing (ZC) signal already used for synchronization purpose in powerline communication (PLC) systems. A design of analog and digital stage for an experimental measurement platform is proposed to evaluate mains ZC periodicity with real conditions. Measurements were performed in real different environment: in lab, in home and in rural location to discern the particularity of each one of them. The proposed measurement procedure is also detailed. Obtained experimental results have shown that ZC detection present fluctuations composed of two components (stationary and impulsive). In impulsive one, four types of errors have been identified and analyzed for each environment. Measured errors shows fluctuant ZC periods sweep between 0.5ms and 10.2ms.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114769799","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. Caponetto, V. Luca, S. Graziani, F. Sapuppo, G. Pasquale
{"title":"IPMC frequency dependent multiphysics model considering electrodes high surface and fractional effects","authors":"R. Caponetto, V. Luca, S. Graziani, F. Sapuppo, G. Pasquale","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6861001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6861001","url":null,"abstract":"Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs) are electroactive polymers which can be used both as sensors and as actuators. The IPMC white box modelling requires several parameters, not always accessible via theoretical approaches or experimentation. This work addresses such an issue by exploiting a frequency domain model optimization procedure which integrates Nelder-Mead simplex method with the COMSOL Multiphysics® models. It uses experimental data and fitting model simulations for microscopic parameters' identification. The proposed model integrates the effect of the high surface area electrodes by including a varying-along-the-thickness relative permittivity εR. Moreover, as an original contribute to IPMC studies, a fractional order dynamics has been identified in the white-box model, confirming previous studies on IPMC grey box model and on electro-active polymeric devices. The model shows adherence with recorded data, identifying the second order-like dynamics in the frequency response.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125635026","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}
Lan Duong, Maedot S. Andargie, Jeffrey Chen, Nikolas Giakoumidis, M. Eid
{"title":"Aegis: A biofeedback adaptive alarm system using vibrotactile feedback","authors":"Lan Duong, Maedot S. Andargie, Jeffrey Chen, Nikolas Giakoumidis, M. Eid","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860755","url":null,"abstract":"Aegis is a “smart” wireless-wristband alarm system that takes as input not a specific alarm time, as in traditional alarm systems, but rather a time interval specified by a user. The system then automatically chooses the optimal alarm time within that range to minimize sleep inertia in the user after waking. Worn as a wristband, Aegis continuously processes their movement readings to map their sleep stages throughout the night, and remembers the individual user's typical sleep pattern from previous nights, combining these two sources of data to predict where in the sleep cycle the user-set time range will fall. Because sleep inertia is caused by an interruption of deep sleep, Aegis chooses its alarm time to coincide with periods of light sleep, and wakes up the user by vibrating the wristband instead of sounding an alarm, to minimize noise disturbance of roommates, spouses, and/or family members. Preliminary performance evaluation demonstrated the ability of Aegis to track sleep patterns and user satisfaction was confirmed via questionnaires and debriefing.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"359 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115848703","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}
Xiaoyu Li, Jing Jin, Min Wang, Yipeng Liu, Yi Shen
{"title":"X-ray pulsar signal denoising based on EMD with adaptive thresholding","authors":"Xiaoyu Li, Jing Jin, Min Wang, Yipeng Liu, Yi Shen","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860889","url":null,"abstract":"X-ray pulsar is an effective tool for navigation in deep space exploration. However, the noise contained in X-ray pulsar signal may severely decrease the accuracy of navigation system. This paper presents a signal denoising method based Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method with thresholding method. For thresholding method, we propose a new adaptive thresholding method which can overcome the shortcomings of fixed thresholding method. In this method, the X-ray pulsar signal is decomposed into several Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). By analyzing the decomposition procedure, these IMFs are divided to three parts: the noisy part, the useful structure, the IMFs which contain noise and useful structure simultaneously. Then, an adaptive threshold is set to remove the noise from the third part mentioned above. Finally, the signal is reconstructed. In order to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method, this improved method is compared with the conventional EMD based method. Simulation results show the proposed method can achieve better performance than the conventional EMD based denoising method.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132047502","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":"Condition monitoring of brushless DC motors with non-stationary dynamic conditions","authors":"Jose F. Zubizarreta-Rodriguez, Shrihari Vasudevan","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860523","url":null,"abstract":"This work introduces a new multi-sensor measurement framework for condition monitoring of brushless DC motors (BLDCM) with bearings. An experimental platform for equipment health monitoring is used for producing different faults on BLDCMs and log the measurement data. This work is oriented to maximize the life-cycle of industrial machinery and prevent catastrophic failures and their environmental consequences through reliable behavior classification. A public benchmark data set containing key failure scenarios is being built based on this work. This data set will be unique with respect to other available data sets due to the different sensors used and include more extensive scenarios such as non-stationary (time varying) conditions. A BLDCM with a bearing is tested under non-stationary conditions, and the scenario for their failure is developed. Supervised learning classifiers such as back propagation neural network and support vector machine are used to identify the fault state in the equipment.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132299667","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}
Renato F. Fernandes, C. C. Fonseca, D. Brandão, P. Ferrari, A. Flammini, A. Vezzoli
{"title":"Flexible Wireless Sensor Network for smart lighting applications","authors":"Renato F. Fernandes, C. C. Fonseca, D. Brandão, P. Ferrari, A. Flammini, A. Vezzoli","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860782","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, there is a growing demand for energy efficient solutions in different areas. The improvement of the quality of service and the reduction of resource waste is the goal of new solutions. Smart grids, smart metering systems and smart distributed control systems are the most interesting results of the last years, going to the direction of a new concept: the Smart City. The smartness of these solutions relies of a pervasive communication infrastructure to move information from “production points” to “consuming points”. This work is the description of the research project and development of enhance technologies for a smart, remotely controlled, street lighting system that is also able to include smart metering features. Even if a city delivers very different services, integrated, multi-service, systems have to be preferred thanks to their economical sustainability. The core of the project is an efficient routing strategy for large areas Wireless Sensor Network based on IEEE802.15.4 standard. This paper is focused on the development and performance assessment of the infrastructure for the remote control of the system and the validation in terms of average delivery delay of the measurement/control information.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130196057","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}
Karolie Nobre Dantas Grassi, R. Freire, J. Villanueva
{"title":"Evaluation of wavelet analysis performance in multiphase level measurement using ultrasonic sensors","authors":"Karolie Nobre Dantas Grassi, R. Freire, J. Villanueva","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860844","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an evaluation of the performance of wavelet analysis in the filtering of ultrasonic echoes applied to the measurement of multiple levels of liquids in a single tank. A revision of previous references in the filtering of ultrasound signals used in this application is presented. A simulation model of ultrasonic sensors and the measurement system is developed, considering the attenuation of the mediums and the presence of additive noise. A single mother wavelet is used and the number of required levels of decomposition for signal detection is verified. Simulation results are presented with comparison of the measurement uncertainty achieved under different signal-to-noise ratios.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134232738","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}
Qijian Tang, Xiangjun Wang, Qingping Yang, Chang-zheng Liu
{"title":"An improved scale factor calibration model of MEMS gyroscopes","authors":"Qijian Tang, Xiangjun Wang, Qingping Yang, Chang-zheng Liu","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860843","url":null,"abstract":"Scale factor nonlinearity is one of the main errors of MEMS gyroscopes. This paper firstly analyzes the operating principle of MEMS gyroscopes, and presents the commonly used model in calibration process. It is proved that calibrating the gyroscope scale factor in segments will result in higher fitting accuracy. Since it is difficult to determine the inverse function of a higher order function in microprocessor, this paper has developed a new calibration model, including the selection of suitable segment points based on the fitting residual error. The calibration experiments and validation test results have confirmed the high accuracy of this new model, with the calibration accuracy almost improved by one order of magnitude compared with the original model. It is also applicable to other MEMS gyroscopes.","PeriodicalId":331484,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134052873","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}