D. Crescini, D. Marioli, A. Romaní, E. Sardini, A. Taroni
{"title":"Thick-film inclinometer based on free convective motion of an heating air mass","authors":"D. Crescini, D. Marioli, A. Romaní, E. Sardini, A. Taroni","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351239","url":null,"abstract":"In this application, a thick-film tilt sensor has been developed, based on heat transfer by natural convection. The device measures internal changes in heat transfer due to the inclination. The device is functionally equivalent to a traditional proof-mass accelerometer. The proof mass in the new thick-film sensor is a gas. The gaseous proof-mass provides great advantages over the use of the traditional solid proof mass. A conditioning electronic circuit amplifies the signal variation induced by the inclination, compensating for the deviation due to the initial asymmetrical values of the bridge arms and their slow variations. Preliminary tests on the first prototypes show an accuracy of about 2% full scale output, repeatability of about 0.2/spl deg/ and resolution better than 0.1/spl deg/ over a /spl plusmn/20/spl deg/ range.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124100131","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}
Yi-Li Lin, C. Young, Yuan-Jui Chang, Yi-Hui Chung, A. Su
{"title":"Versatile PC/FPGA based verification/fast prototyping platform with multimedia applications","authors":"Yi-Li Lin, C. Young, Yuan-Jui Chang, Yi-Hui Chung, A. Su","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351348","url":null,"abstract":"A PC/FPGA based verification/fast prototyping platform is presented. The FPGA board is connected to the host computer through a PCI interface. The application system software running within Microsoft Windows environment is developed so that all the data generated during simulation can be downloaded and displayed on the host computer. Hence, the system acts like a logic analyzer with very large storage memory. Furthermore, the software provides interfaces and drivers for devices such as USB camera, computer monitor and PC soundcard so that the simulation data can be demonstrated over the host computer in real time. Because multimedia data is usually complicated and the size is huge, design and thorough verification are usually difficult and take lots of time. The proposed system is both versatile and convenient to use and verification of designs for multimedia applications becomes much easier. An MPEG-4 simple profile video encoder and a 3D surround sound processor are realized with the proposed system. Both cases can run in real time.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122211785","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":"Diagnostic and model validation of a faulty induction motor drive via wavelet decomposition","authors":"L. Cristaldi, M. Lazzaroni, A. Monti, F. Ponci","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351342","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to the analysis of the AC side current is presented for the purpose of identification of faults in the stator phase resistance of an AC induction motor drive. The method relies on the correlation between wavelet decomposition coefficients of the current in healthy and faulty conditions. The findings highlight that the fault causes waveform variations localized at specific decomposition levels. The presented approach may open the way to efficient training for fault recognition systems.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115872739","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 facility for the analysis of reflection properties of surfaces","authors":"P. Fiorentin, P. Iacomussi, G. Rossi","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351113","url":null,"abstract":"A new innovative photometric laboratory starts its activity at the University of Padova in the field characterization of optical materials, like retroreflectors, road signs, road markings and asphalt. The system is composed by a light source, a detector to measure the luminance and the color of the light reflected by the sample and a goniometer to reproduce different geometrical alignments among the sample, the light source and the detector. The system and the measurement procedure are described in this paper. A CCD camera operates as luminance meter. Its use as detector and relative measurements procedure improve the result accuracies and overcome inconveniences due to the techniques commonly used in these type of measurements.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132525895","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. V. Lira, P. R. Barros, J. S. da Rocha Neto, A. V. van Haandel
{"title":"Estimation of dissolved oxygen dynamics for sequencing batch aerobic reactors","authors":"V. V. Lira, P. R. Barros, J. S. da Rocha Neto, A. V. van Haandel","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1350984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1350984","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a wastewater treatment pilot plant, which consists of an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (UASB) in series with a batch reactor operated in aerobic conditions is under study. Both reactors are based in the activated sludge process. The work is focused on the estimation of the dissolved oxygen dynamics of the aerobic reactor: the oxygen transfer function and the respiration rate are estimated first in nonrecursive mode in the beginning of the batch and then, the respiration rate is estimated in recursive mode. Simulation and experimental estimates are performed.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132565115","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":"Identification of pneumatic parameters of the human respiratory system by negative pressure impulses","authors":"P. Piwowar","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351367","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents results of experiments with the identification of pneumatic parameters for the five models of human flow during artificially caused transient states. These transient states are caused by short-time negative pulses, which are generated at the outlet of the patient's air-ducts. In this paper is shown the influence of the non-linear character of the model on the respiratory system parameter identification results.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"12 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129994893","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":"Expanded uncertainty and coverage factor computation by higher order moments analysis","authors":"Gabriele D'Antona","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351035","url":null,"abstract":"The ISO guide for the expression of uncertainty requires the statement of the measurement uncertainty in terms of expanded uncertainty associated to a defined level of confidence. This requires the knowledge of the probability density function of the measured results. This paper describes a method for the estimation of the probability density function, from which to evaluate the coverage factor associated to a predefined level of confidence, on the basis of a higher-moment analysis of the various uncertainty sources of type A and B.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130118917","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":"First results on the characterization of new semitransparent amorphous silicon sensors [position sensors]","authors":"A. Calderon, A. Virto, J. Luque","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351235","url":null,"abstract":"We present first results on the performance of a new generation of semitransparent amorphous silicon position detectors having very good properties such as a precision better than 5 /spl mu/m, deflection angles smaller than 10 /spl mu/rad and transmission in the visible higher than 70%. In addition the sensitive area is very large: 30/spl times/30 cm/sup 2/.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134213257","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 temperature stabilized CMOS ring oscillator for a time-to-digital converter of a laser radar","authors":"I. Nissinen, J. Kostamovaara","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351562","url":null,"abstract":"A temperature stabilized CMOS ring oscillator for a time-to-digital converter of a laser radar has been designed. The ring oscillator is based on measuring the frequency of the ring oscillator by a frequency-to-voltage converter and locking that voltage to a stable voltage reference. The simulated temperature stability of the ring oscillator was less than 10 ppm//spl deg/C at all different corner points in temperature range of -10/spl deg/C to 70/spl deg/C. This corresponds to 0.1 mm//spl deg/C in a distance of 10 m. The frequency of the ring oscillator was approximately 653 MHz, giving a resolution of 128 ps.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134271438","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. Caorsi, M. Donelli, A. Massa, M. Pastorino, A. Randazzo
{"title":"Detection of buried objects by an electromagnetic method based on a differential evolution approach","authors":"S. Caorsi, M. Donelli, A. Massa, M. Pastorino, A. Randazzo","doi":"10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351257","url":null,"abstract":"A method for reconstructing dielectric objects buried in a half space is proposed. The approach is based on the inverse scattering formulation. The Green's function for the half space is used as the kernel of the integral equations relating the dielectric properties of the object to the samples of the scattered electric field. The inverse problem is recast as a global optimization problem by constructing a functional to be minimized. A differential evolution method is used to obtain a global minimum of this functional. The paper provides the mathematical formulation of the approach. Moreover, numerical results are reported.","PeriodicalId":386903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134599582","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}