{"title":"Comparison of different methods to cancel offset capacitance in capacitive displacement sensors","authors":"S. Xia, S. Nihtianov","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229448","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comparative study of the power consumption of two methods to cancel the offset capacitance in high-resolution capacitive displacement sensors. One method is applied based on correlated-double-sampling (CDS) technique and the other method is applied using oversampling technique. The analytical comparison predicts similar power consumption, if the same resolution for the same conversion time need to be reached. Experimental results with implementations of the two methods confirmed the analytical prediction.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"401 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126675490","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":"Flexible algorithm for frequency tone detection","authors":"A. Magnani, M. Norgia, A. Pesatori","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229129","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a specific technique for frequency tone detection. Based on a modified DFT series equation, the algorithm provides to enlarge a portion of spectrum of the acquired signal. It starts from an arbitrary point and length, and then individuates the fine peak position. After the theory description, the implemented algorithm is described. Finally, the results confirm the performances of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126676033","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":"Camera grids for laboratory automation","authors":"Kai Ritterbusch, S. Junginger, K. Thurow","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229213","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a straightforward method for mapping a multi-camera system to inspect multiple analytical samples carried in a microtiterplate, a labware standard used in life-science laboratories today. The high number of small samples that are provided by microplates burden difficulties when designing an inspection system with a single camera. The major concern is the perspective that is unique for every sample, and only a limited number of samples can be imaged in a favourable perspective, that is directly from below or above the sample. A way to overcome this problem is to use multiple cameras. This work presents the integration of an arbitrary number of cameras to support microplates of all types and densities. It provides a mapping framework to deliver the subimages to the inspection algorithms and includes a one-step registration procedure that uses a registration plate with microplate dimensions. Furthermore, an estimation of the system's mapping uncertainty is given.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126774891","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. Rivera-Mejia, J. Rivera-Jacquez, C. Modesto-Acosta, M. Tena-Vega
{"title":"Auto-compensed smart sensor with F-ISE to continuous monitoring in public water supplies","authors":"J. Rivera-Mejia, J. Rivera-Jacquez, C. Modesto-Acosta, M. Tena-Vega","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229210","url":null,"abstract":"The in situ and continuous water supplies monitoring for human use it is an important topic around the world for caring consumer's health because the water could be contaminated from natural environment. To review this, in this paper are shown the results of a study at “University: Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua” in which the quality of thirteen points of waters sources, used for around 5000 users, were analyzed using commercial equipment. The response of ion selective electrode was evaluated with data acquisition system and the smart sensor architecture to measure Fluride concentration it was defined and the compensation method was selected. Also the response time of smart sensor was evaluated and compared with the setting time. Using standard reference solutions of Fluoride was demonstrated that the smart sensor designed has better performance compared with commercial equipment in two different ranges from 1 to 50 ppm and from 1 to 200 ppm. This design procedure can be applied to design smart sensors to measure other water parameters with ion selective electrodes and to do in situ and continuous monitoring in public water supplies.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126978168","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":"Wood chip fiber flow rate control and TMP refining energy saving","authors":"F. Ding, C. Lejeune, A. Poulin, L. Laperrière","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229678","url":null,"abstract":"TMP (Thermo Mechanical Pulping) is the most energy intensive process in the pulp and paper industry, about 75% of the total energy of a TMP plant is consumed by the refining process. In a typical mill under normal operating conditions, up to 30% of the disturbances in the pulping process can be explained by chip variations. In this paper, the statistical analysis of the refining processes of the mills data has demonstrated that the chip basic density stabilization could result in 3.4 - 6.4% of refining energy saving. The laboratory scale experiment and its mathematical model simulation has revealed refining energy saving is about 6.3% while the standard deviation of wood chip density reduced from 12 to 7 (kg/m3). Finally, the mill real time instrumentation and trial have shown that the stabilisation of wood characteristics, especially chip basic density can reduce the total refining energy by at least 2%.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123828889","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":"High accuracy-wide range resistance measurement for thermistor sensors monitoring","authors":"S. Nieddu","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229201","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an electronic circuitry conceived in order to measure electrical resistance values over an extended range covering up to six orders of magnitude and capable to assure a very high accuracy at any operating temperature, without any calibration or trimming and using only one precision reference resistor: the accuracy is limited up to 0.2% close to the measurement range boundaries. This circuitry has been specifically designed for temperature measurement using PTC and NTC thermistor sensors in particular for automotive applications. A multichannel architecture with a single reference resistance for ASIC integration is also presented.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123865252","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":"Cross Correlation Based Dispersed Phase Velocity Profile Measurement of Two-Phase Pipe Flow","authors":"C. Tan, Yang Cao, F. Dong","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6305331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6305331","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a method of forming up the cross sectional velocity profile of horizontal two-phase flow by adopting a dual-plane Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) system and cross correlation method. The preliminary results are presented with numerical simulations, where a pixel-like mesh is used to segment the cross section of the measuring field. The relationship between the peripheral voltages measured from the electrodes with a feature value within a specific pixel is determined. The numerical simulation results show that this method can provide a visual distribution of velocity profile of dispersed phase within a continuous phase in the cross section of the pipeline.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"280 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121144702","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":"Accurate indoor tracking using a mobile phone and non-overlapping camera sensor networks","authors":"Qiang Wang, Yan Liu, Juan Chen","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229261","url":null,"abstract":"Cameras are common in the public building, and become one of the popular sensors for the indoor tracking. However, a camera will produce much data and consume much energy. Consequently, the cameras, deployed in a large area, would have no overlapping field of views (fovs). This leads to we cannot determine the person's position in unobserved area correctly, due to the person's unpredicted motion change, such as taking turns. Smart phone-based dead reckoning (DR) method is recently observed to be an alternative for filling these cameras' gaps to realize seamless tracking. Therefore, in this paper, we propose to accurately track a person in indoor environment by employing particle filtering, which fuses the absolute position results from cameras and the relative position results from the smart phone-based DR method. Experiment results demonstrate the performance of the proposed joint tracking system. As we expected, the dead reckoning's drawbacks such as accumulative errors and the unavailability of the initial position, are solved by the cameras. As well, the positions' estimations between the cameras are filled with the DR method.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114357468","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. Young, Damien Chang, Sheng-Fu Liang, Fu-Zen Shaw
{"title":"A portable multi-channel behavioral state and physiological signal monitoring system","authors":"C. Young, Damien Chang, Sheng-Fu Liang, Fu-Zen Shaw","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229401","url":null,"abstract":"Acquisition of a variety of physiological signals is essential for monitoring and investigation of some specific diseases. Many medical instruments have been well developed and deployed in medical institutes, but many of them are bulky and clumsy for daily recording of subjects' activity. A distributed multi-channel physiological data monitoring system was developed for integrating versatile sensor modules attached in different parts of body. The physiological signals are acquired and processed, and the raw or preprocessed data are then transmitted through wireless communications to a backend server and storage for long-term recording and study. Time synchronization is critical for data fusion and therefore more accurate state discrimination can be achieved. Ubiquitous data access is fundamental, so a smart mobile device in a virtual computing environment will help on this requirement.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116296542","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":"Adaptive carrier frequency offset compensation for OFDMA systems","authors":"Jeong-Woo Kim, Yu-Jun Won, Jae-Won Suh, B. Seo","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229693","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an adaptive carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) compensation scheme for uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems. In OFDMA receivers, CFOs break the orthogonality among the subcarriers and cause interchannel interference (ICI) and multi-user interference, which are the key impairment factors in OFDMA systems. In the proposed method, we compensate the CFOs in frequency domain by using the property that multiplication in time domain is achieved equivalently by circular convolution in frequency domain. Furthermore, to reduce the computational operations, we adopt different length of convolution filter according to the magnitude of CFO. Accordingly, the proposed method has lower computational complexity compared to the conventional fixed length convolution method under the same performance.","PeriodicalId":387839,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124147539","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}