Y. Tamai, S. Kagami, H. Mizoguchi, K. Sakaya, K. Nagashima, T. Takano
{"title":"Circular microphone array for meeting system","authors":"Y. Tamai, S. Kagami, H. Mizoguchi, K. Sakaya, K. Nagashima, T. Takano","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes two circular microphone arrays and a square microphone array which may be used for sound localization and sound capture. Sound capture by microphone array is achieved by Sum and Delay Beam Former (SDBF). A dedicated PCI 128-channel simultaneous input analog-to-digital (AD) board is developed for a 128-channel microphone array with a maximum sampling rate of 22.7 /spl mu/s/sample. Our 128-channel circular microphone array is under construction, but a 24 channel circular microphone array and a 128 channel square microphone array have been completed. The 24 channel circular microphone array can capture sound from an arbitrary direction. The 128-channel square microphone array can capture sound from a specific point. The 24-channel circular microphone array and the 128-channel square microphone array are evaluated by using frequency components of the sound. The 128-channel circular microphone array is evaluated by simulations of the sound pressure distribution. These microphone arrays will be used as the capture method of \"a meeting system \" which automatically takes minutes of a conference.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133114452","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}
Guangbin Zhang, Tianhong Yang, S. Gregori, Jin Liu, F. Maloberti
{"title":"Ultra-low power motion-triggered image sensor for distributed wireless sensor network","authors":"Guangbin Zhang, Tianhong Yang, S. Gregori, Jin Liu, F. Maloberti","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279123","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a motion-triggered CMOS image sensor. It uses low resolution photosensor array with an ultra low power data converter in the read out circuit. The analog motion sensor shares the same photosensors using an interleaved structure. The motion sensor triggers the digital imager and RF data transmission to the base station in case there are objects moving in the scene, otherwise, the system remains standby to save power. This design is specially optimized for very low power applications such as distributed wireless sensor network.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128820239","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":"Multi-lateration for multiplexed ultrasonic sensors","authors":"T. Hori, Y. Nishida, T. Kanade, K. Akiyama","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279139","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new multi-lateration algorithm developed by the authors for multiplexed ultrasonic emitters. Our ultrasonic sensor system had a problem that a sampling rate for each emitter had to be decreased to avoid crosstalk as the number of emitter increased. We analyzed the phenomena geometrically and mathematically, and developed a new multi-lateration algorithm that enables our ultrasonic sensor system locate multiple emitters at a time by activating them simultaneously. Simulation results supported the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and the algorithm implemented in our test system worked perfectly for the experiments conducted in a real environment.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133736837","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}
V. Khivrych, G. Olijnyk, A. Sukach, V. Tetyorkin, M. Rubay, S. Oshchudlyak
{"title":"Noncooled InAs photodiodes for optoelectonic sensors of methane","authors":"V. Khivrych, G. Olijnyk, A. Sukach, V. Tetyorkin, M. Rubay, S. Oshchudlyak","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278906","url":null,"abstract":"Modern optoelectronic gaseous sensors require high performance photodetectors for mid-wavelength infrared (IR) region because of the most intensive absorption lines of carbons, which are the structural units of pollutant gases, fall into the wavelength region 3.2-3.4 /spl mu/m. The most effective sources of IR radiation in this spectral region are LEDs made of p-n-InGaAs/n-InAs and p-n-InAsSbP/n-InAs heterostructures. To be successfully used in optoelectronic gaseous sensors IR photodiodes should exhibit high sensitivity and operating speed. In many cases these photodiodes should be also explosion proof. The carrier transport mechanisms were investigated in the temperature range 77-330 K. At actual temperatures T=260-300 K the forward current is determined by two mechanisms: diffusion in the bulk and generation in the depletion region. In photodiodes with p-n junction depth h=6/spl divide/7 /spl mu/m the photoresponse spectra has maximum at /spl lambda//sub max/=3.3/spl divide/3.5 /spl mu/m (T=295 K). These dependencies are well coincide with LEDs spectra /spl lambda/=3.3 /spl mu/m. In investigated photodiodes the current responsivity was ranged from 0.7 to 0.8 A/spl times/W/sup -1/ at the wavelength 3.3 /spl mu/m. The specific detectivity D/sub /spl lambda// (3.3 /spl mu/m, 800 Hz, 1 Hz) was found to be in the range 3.0/spl divide/ 3.5/spl times/10/sup 9/ W/sup -1/ cm Hz/sup 1/2/ at T=295 K. These threshold parameters exceed analogous ones in commercially available photodiodes.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115108995","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}
Y. Oike, Hiroaki Shintaku, S. Takayama, M. Ikeda, K. Asada
{"title":"Real-time and high-resolution 3D imaging system using light-section method and smart CMOS sensor","authors":"Y. Oike, Hiroaki Shintaku, S. Takayama, M. Ikeda, K. Asada","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278989","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the first real-time 3D imaging system based on the light-section method with VGA pixel resolution. A 3D measurement system has a wide variety of applications fields, however it is difficult for the conventional imaging systems to realize a real-time and high-resolution 3D measurement based on the light-section method since it requires a lot of frames per range map to acquire the positions of a scanning laser beam. Our developed image sensor achieves 41.7k fps position detection of a projected sheet beam in 640 /spl times/ 480 pixel resolution. An integrated system controller implemented on an FPGA performs sensor control, light projection control, range data pre-processing and suppression of redundant data transmission for the fatal problems of the real-time system. Our developed 3D imaging system achieves 23.3 range maps/s with 0.87 mm range accuracy at a distance of 1200 mm.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116342595","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":"Experimental and finite element analysis of an endoscopic tooth-like tactile sensor","authors":"H. Singh, R. Sedaghati, J. Dargahi","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278939","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the finite element analysis and experimental study of a prototype PVDF endoscopic tooth-like tactile sensor capable of measuring compliance of a contact object. Present days endoscopic graspers are designed tooth-like in order to grasp slippery tissues. However they are not equipped with tactile sensors to measure the compliance of tissue. The tactile sensor consists of rigid and compliant cylindrical elements. Determination of the compliance of the sensed objects is based on the relative deformation of contact object/tissue on the compliant and rigid element of the sensor. The polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film sandwiched between rigid cylinder and plate and also between the two base plates has been used to measure the force applied on the rigid element and the total force applied on the sensor, respectively. Using the finite element method, the rigid and compliant elements are modeled as solid and elastic foundations, respectively. The data obtained for the force variation are plotted for the various modulus of elasticity of the sensed object. An array of the sensors was also designed in two different configurations depending on the method of measuring the total force. In one configuration, the total force is measured on the sensed object using common base plates and in the other configuration it is measured using different base plates arrangement. It has been shown that good agreement exists between the finite element results and experimental values. The sensor exhibits high force sensitivity and good linearity. Further, an array of these sensors could be miniaturized to integrate with commercial endoscope.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116837336","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":"Robot localisation using interval analysis","authors":"I. Ashokaraj, A. Tsourdos, B. White, P. Silson","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1278890","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a deterministic approach for the sensor-based localisation and navigation of a mobile robot. This approach is based on interval analysis and the robot equipped with ultrasonic sensors. For the localisation, it is assumed that the map is 2D and also it is assumed to be known a-priory to the robot. It has already been shown by Jaulin et.al. that mobile robot localisation and tracking using interval analysis and an interval model of the robot, with ultrasonic sensors only can be achieved. Here we use the same algorithm for robot localisation but without using an interval model of the robot. Instead the physical limitations of the robot is used to predict and track the robots position. In classical methods such as Kalman filters for robot localisation, the data association step is very complex and they are based on linearisation. Where as the method proposed here using interval analysis bypasses the data association step and deals with the problem as nonlinear and in a global way.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125859505","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":"Multi-sensor adaptive heart and lung sound extraction","authors":"Hong Wang, L. Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279113","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous monitoring of heart and lung sounds is of essential importance in medical diagnosis in patients with lung or heart diseases and detection of critical conditions in operating rooms. To obtain quantitative and reliable diagnosis and detection, it is critically important that cardiac and respiratory auscultation retains sounds of high clarity. Clinical acoustic environment imposes great challenges for heart and lung sound acquisition. Unlike acoustic labs in which noise levels can be artificially controlled and reduced, operating rooms are very noisy due to surgical devices, ventilation machines, conversations, alarms, etc. The unpredictable and broadband natures of such noises make operating rooms a very difficult acoustic environment. More technically, lung and heart sounds are weaker than environment noises, and have frequency bands which overlap significantly with noise frequencies. As a result, high fidelity microphones and traditional noise filtering or cancellation techniques cannot help much. Furthermore, due to large variations in patient physiological conditions, operating variables, surgical types, and operating room settings, sound transmission channels vary vastly from patient to patient and during the surgical process. Consequently, it becomes imperative to provide modeling capability for capturing individual characteristics of sound transmission channels. This paper presents a signal processing method that uses (1) an embedded signal for system excitation and identification, (2) an adaptive. algorithm for updating systems so that time variations can be compensated, (3) an signal separation algorithm to extract desired signals, and (4) an adjustable filter to reduce noise impact on the target signal components. This approach can potentially provide superior performance over algorithms that rely on individual fixed filters or statistical based sound separation.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128885868","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":"Active biosensors with dyed-doped microcavities","authors":"Jun Yang, L. Jay Guo","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279028","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose an active biosensor based on dye-doped polymer microcavities. We carried out detailed analysis to show its improved sensitivity. Compared with passive high-Q microcavities, such active sensor can provide 10/sup 5/ fold narrower resonance linewidth in the transmission spectrum at the lasing condition. By detecting the resonance shift due to the presence of analytes in the surrounding solution, such compact active sensors can detect the refractive index change better than 10/sup -9/ in biomedical solutions.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132150879","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 intelligent fuel sensor based on a microstructured gas sensor","authors":"T. Kammerer, M. Engel, A. Schutze","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2003.1279106","url":null,"abstract":"Temperature cycling of semiconductor gas sensors is a very powerful tool for developing gas detection systems with high selectivity and stability. Microstructured gas sensors - due to their low thermal mass - have very low thermal time constants in the range of 10 ms. Based on these sensors, development of fast and highly selective gas detection systems is possible using temperature cycles spanning the whole operating temperature range with ten or more levels with an overall duration of only a few seconds. I or efficient evaluation of these systems, we have developed a versatile hardware platform which provides accurate control for arbitrary temperature cycles and fast, high resolution data acquisition either in stand-alone operation or connected to a PC Based on this platform, we demonstrate a system for fast discrimination between gasoline and diesel vapors based on a single microsensor and intelligent signal processing. The system is not only able to discriminate steady state conditions but also to correctly classify the transient behavior immediately after exposing the sensor to fuel vapor or ambient air. Integrated in pump nozzles at filling stations the system would allow to prevent the car tank from being filled with the wrong fuel by detecting the type of fuel inside the tank in seconds. For this application micro pellistors are also suitable, which have shown superior stability compared to semiconductor gas sensors.","PeriodicalId":369277,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37498)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129253831","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}