{"title":"Virtual transducer for augmented perception","authors":"J. K. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461707","url":null,"abstract":"A technique for virtual transducer formation has been developed to augment remote environment perception by adding proximity feel in tele-robotic systems. It induces proximity feel around approachable and unapproachable parts in distinctly different ways. It uses robot's in built sensors and develops perceivable reaction. The transducer is applicable to tele-robots working in `man in loop' modality for augmenting perception of remote environment at the master side.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124610903","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}
N. Dubey, A. Banerjee, N. Zala, A. Topno, S. Rafiq
{"title":"Characterization of high resolution multilinear charge coupled device for space appplications","authors":"N. Dubey, A. Banerjee, N. Zala, A. Topno, S. Rafiq","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461687","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a charge coupled Detector for high resolution and multispectral imaging requirements. Multispectral missions sample the incoming light in 3-6 Continuous bands. For Carrying out the electro-optical characterization of this CCD, A test setup is prepared. The test setup development is a challenging tasks considering the resource required along with the programmability feature. Further to the development of the test setup various electro-optical parameters like Dark Current, Dark Signal Non-uniformity, Photo response Non-uniformity, Quantum efficiency, Conversion gain, Charge transfer Efficiency are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121739535","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 embedded magnetic field sensing device utilizing giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect","authors":"T. Das, S. Mandal, P. Banerji","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461649","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at developing an embedded giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) sensing device using balanced modulator/demodulator topologies. Its prototype compact model which is suitable for in-situ applications is fabricated by integrating the probe assembly and the processing circuits. The device measures the phase shift which in turn calibrates the magnitude of the magnetic field. Balanced modulator/demodulator topologies are incorporated for phase shift measurement which not only enhances the sensitivity of the sensing device due to the improvement of the signal to noise ratio but also improves the repeatability and reproducibility of the sensing device. The characterization results and the performance evaluations are included to demonstrate the improved performance of the sensing device.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117307073","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. A. Nazábal, I. Matías, C. Fernández-Valdivielso, F. Falcone, P. Branchi, S. Mukhopadhyay
{"title":"Home automation based sensor system for monitoring elderly people safety","authors":"J. A. Nazábal, I. Matías, C. Fernández-Valdivielso, F. Falcone, P. Branchi, S. Mukhopadhyay","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461658","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this work is to develop a low cost home automation based sensor system for remote monitoring the behavior of elder people at their own homes. With a combination of data obtained from strategically placed sensors and a series of editable rules, an abnormal behavior can be detected and the corresponding action taken.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125287589","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 extended floating gate gas sensor using polypyrrole as a sensing polymer","authors":"M. Tareq, D. Buchanan, M. R. Kumar, M. Freund","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461686","url":null,"abstract":"A novel charge sensitive sensor platform using a basic floating gate MOS (FGMOS) transistor has been developed. In this new design, the top metal layer of a standard CMOS process has been used as an extended sensor pad which is connected to the floating gate. A charge sensitive conducting polymer has been used to measure different gas analytes. This FGMOS sensor significantly reduces the number of post processing steps required and makes this design compatible with VLSI integration. A 2D sensor array can be fabricated using this type of design and since it is compatible with standard CMOS fabrication processing, the required array circuitry can be included.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133590324","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":"Real-time monitoring of respiratory diseases of distantly located elderly impaired patients","authors":"S. Bagchi, M. Chattopadhyay","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-02318-2_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02318-2_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"281 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133734507","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":"Development of a GMI sensor for evaluating microstructural degradation in ferromagnetic materials","authors":"P. Sarkar, R. Roy, A. Panda, A. Mitra","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461650","url":null,"abstract":"A Giant Magneto-Impedance (GMI) based electromagnetic sensing device has been designed and developed using a nanostructured CoFeSiB microwire as sensing core element. The sensor consists of three segments, (i) signal generation and amplification unit, (ii) transducer with the bridge circuit and (iii) the detection circuit. The sensor output voltage is directly correlated to hardness variation in heat-treated 9Cr-1Mo steel and martensite volume fraction in the deformed 304 SS austenitic stainless steel. The amplitude of GMI voltage in defective welded pipe has also been investigated. The present study indicated that the developed GMI sensor can be applicable for structural health monitoring of service exposed engineering components.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"468 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127544865","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":"Class D RF amplifier for 20 MHz NMR MOUSE sensor","authors":"J. Zhen, G. Gouws, Robin Dykstra, C. Eccles","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461657","url":null,"abstract":"A 20 MHz Class D RF amplifier has been developed to work with an NMR MOUSE sensor. The prototype has been built on a 4-layer PCB with an area of 50 cm2 and weighs less than 120 g; it outputs 100 W into a 50Ω load using a single 24 V DC supply. Even with the high switching power losses at that frequency, the amplifier is able to achieve 73% efficiency. Test results from the MOUSE sensor show the class D amplifier is operating well at 20 MHz with fast turn on and turn off times, producing constant amplitude pulses as short as 2 μs. and is able to run long CPMG experiments with hundreds of echoes. The results confirm that the Class D amplifier is a worthy replacement for the existing, market available Class A amplifier, which is running at 19% efficiency and weighs 480 g with a PCB area of 160 cm2.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129876316","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. Mittal, K. Chetan, S. Jayaraman, B. Jagyasi, A. Pande, P. Balamuralidhar
{"title":"mKRISHI wireless sensor network platform for precision agriculture","authors":"A. Mittal, K. Chetan, S. Jayaraman, B. Jagyasi, A. Pande, P. Balamuralidhar","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461755","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a mKRISHI sensor network platform which is specifically designed to build a low cost wireless sensor network for precision agriculture applications. The Texas Instrument's CC2530, which is an IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee compliant system-on-chip, has been used to provide a long range communication while making the sensor nodes more power efficient. The design and development of gateway has been also presented which connects the wireless sensor network to the back-haul network. The enclosure of the sensor node has been designed using the inexpensive PVC pipes which makes the entire solution more cost effective and feasible for the deployment in the outdoor environments like agriculture farms. It has been shown through the experiments that there is not significant attenuation in the received signal strength due to the enclosure using PVC pipes. The results obtained from the deployment of the sensor network over a period of two months has been presented to show the robustness of the proposed framework.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134389526","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}
D. Chatterjee, P. Bhattacharjee, H. Lechat, F. Ayouni, V. Vabre
{"title":"Assessment of shelf-life of cookies formulated with clove extracts using electronic nose Estimation of rancidity in cookies","authors":"D. Chatterjee, P. Bhattacharjee, H. Lechat, F. Ayouni, V. Vabre","doi":"10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENST.2012.6461709","url":null,"abstract":"Comparison of shelf-life of cookies with and without clove extracts (obtained by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction) as natural antioxidant was carried out using electronic nose technology. This technology provides a faster determination of rancidity and overcomes the problems associated with normal biochemical assays. Rancidity of the cookies was determined by comparing their odor profiles with those of deliberately made rancid cookies using Fox e-nose and Heracles e-nose systems. At the end of 30 day storage period, it was found that cookies without clove extracts have shown similar odor profiles with those of deliberately made rancid cookies. Fresh cookies with clove extracts showed different odor profiles owing to high eugenol content therein and none of the cookie batches with clove extracts showed any rancidity marker; whereas, the cookies without clove extracts tend to become rancid within 30 days. These observations were further affirmed by phytochemical analyses which indicated that the addition of clove extracts as antioxidant in cookies enhanced its nutraceutical potential and shelf-life for at least a month.","PeriodicalId":367665,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132218284","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}