Alireza Ahrabian, Tarek Elsaleh, Yasmin Fathy, P. Barnaghi
{"title":"Detecting changes in the variance of multi-sensory accelerometer data using MCMC","authors":"Alireza Ahrabian, Tarek Elsaleh, Yasmin Fathy, P. Barnaghi","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234260","url":null,"abstract":"An important field in exploratory sensory data analysis is the segmentation of time-series data to identify activities of interest. In this work, we analyse the performance of univariate and multi-sensor Bayesian change detection algorithms in segmenting accelerometer data. In particular, we provide theoretical analysis and also performance evaluation on synthetic data and real-world data. The results illustrate the advantages of using multi-sensory variance change detection in the segmentation of dynamic data (e.g. accelerometer data).","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87119877","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}
B. Smith, Neil A. Smith, F. Jjunju, I. Young, J. Vossebeld, G. Casse, S. Taylor, S. Maher
{"title":"50-Channel charge integrating faraday detector for characterization of ambient ions","authors":"B. Smith, Neil A. Smith, F. Jjunju, I. Young, J. Vossebeld, G. Casse, S. Taylor, S. Maher","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234331","url":null,"abstract":"Herein we present a novel 50 channel, charge integrating, Faraday plate detector system for the detection, characterization and imaging of charged particles emitted from an ambient ionization source. The detector is capable of spatial positioning of ion beams with sub nA current intensity, high linearity, large dynamic range and dark current noise <10 pA. Each channel is connected to its own calibrated amplifier for true simultaneous integration. To demonstrate the detector capability, 2-dimensional ion images are presented for ions emitted from a desorption atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation source with peak ion current of ∼30pA. The novel detection system facilitates the characterization and optimization of ambient ionisation sources in terms of electrical and geometric conditions for improved ion generation and coupling with a mass spectrometer.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"38 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81215860","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. Garcia-Núñez, W. Navaraj, Xiangpeng Liang, R. Dahiya
{"title":"Live demonstration: Energy autonomous electronic skin for robotics","authors":"C. Garcia-Núñez, W. Navaraj, Xiangpeng Liang, R. Dahiya","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234033","url":null,"abstract":"An electronic skin (e-skin) is an artificial smart skin that can provide similar sense of touch to robots and artificial prostheses by mimicking some of the features of human skin. In this regard, tactile e-skin is needed for accurate haptic perception in robots, amputees, as well as, wearable electronics. For example, a flexible e-skin provided with touch/pressure sensors will allow robots to detect the strength and location of the pressure exerted on the skin surface by surrounding objects. Energy autonomy, or also called self-powering, is also a critical feature for an e-skin, enabling portability and longer operation times without human intervention. Further, making the e-skin transparent adds an extra dimension in the functional design space of e-skin, allowing the integration of a solar cell underneath the skin while preserving light energy harvesting. Recent advances in photovoltaics are oriented towards the development of solar cells on stretchable/flexible substrates which will benefit the realization of suggested self-powered technology. Accordingly, the novel approach presented in this demo consists in a vertical layered stack structure, comprising a solar cell attached to the back plane of a transparent tactile skin, where e-skin transparency being a crucial feature that allows light pass through, making the building-block unique, and opening a new promising line of energy autonomous devices for portable flexible electronics.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"107 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87053911","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":"Localized surface plasmon resonance modified with molecularly imprinted sol-gel sensor for cis-jasmone vapor detection","authors":"L. Shang, Chuanjun Liu, K. Hayashi","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234422","url":null,"abstract":"The detection of cis-jasmone is meaningful to sense potential threat in agriculture. In present study, a nanocomposite imprinted LSPR sensor was developed for determination of cis-jasmone vapors. Molecular imprinted sol-gels (MISG) were fabricated on the surface of Au nano-islands via spinning coating. For enhancing the sensitives of sensors, AuNPs was sputtered on the MISG layers. The sensitives and selectivelies of samples recoated divers thickness of AuNPs were compared and discussed. The result indicated that the sensitivity of AuNPs/MISG/AuNPs was higher than that of AuNPs/MISG. In addition, AuNPs/MISG coated with 3 nm AuNPs shown a better sensitive and selectively. In-situ response was verified to be fast, selective and reversible. The absorbance spectra of cis-jasmone vapors linearly increased with its concentration in the range of 10 to 75 ppm, with the limit of detection of 3.45 ppm (S/N=3). The research offered useful technologies for developing cis-jasmone sensor in agriculture area.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"17 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75532027","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":"Sensing range improvement of brillouin optical time domain reflectometry (BOTDR) using inline erbium-doped fibre amplifier","authors":"Nageswara Lalam, W. P. Ng, X. Dai, Q. Wu, Y. Fu","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233878","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we demonstrate sensing range improvement of Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry (BOTDR) using an inline erbium-doped fibre amplifier to compensate the sensing fibre loss. In addition, a passive depolarizer is used based on the polarization beam splitter to suppress the polarization noise. The proof-of-concept is demonstrated experimentally using a 50 km sensing fibre with a 5 m spatial resolution. The strain and temperature errors at end of the sensing fibre are 23 με and 1.08°C, respectively.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"74 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75217152","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 visible light communication LED receiver","authors":"Shuai Li, A. Pandharipande, F. Willems","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234237","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a visible light communication (VLC) system with light emitting diodes (LEDs), wherein LEDs are used for information transmission as well as reception while providing illumination. At the transmitter, a combination of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal and a redundant run-length limited encoded on-off keying (OOK) signal is used for data transmission. The LED receiver uses OOK and the OFF periods therein for VLC reception. The range of such a system is however affected by ambient light changes and device portability. To address this problem, we propose a two-step decoder with edge detection followed by K-means clustering and adaptive threshold detection. We show that the proposed system achieves about 33% higher range in comparison to a non-adaptive VLC system.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83182934","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. Somlor, A. Schmitz, Jinsun Hwang, Tito Pradhono Tomo, S. Sugano
{"title":"Development of a capacitive-type 6-axis force-torque sensor","authors":"S. Somlor, A. Schmitz, Jinsun Hwang, Tito Pradhono Tomo, S. Sugano","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234153","url":null,"abstract":"Force sensing is a crucial task for robots, especially when end effectors such as fingers and hands need to interact with unknown environments; to sense such forces, a force-torque (F/T) sensor is an essential component. In this paper, we propose a small-sized 6-axis F/T sensor with a novel arrangement of 12 transducers using the force transducer we have previously developed. The copper beryllium used in our sensor reduces hysteresis in each transducer. Additionally, the sensor provides digital output via I2C bus to reduce the susceptibility to noise, and reduce the number of required wires. Sensor characteristics such as its sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio, linearity, and hysteresis are determined. More importantly, we showed that our sensor can detect and measure the 6-axis F/T.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"24 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83295746","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":"Electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride nanofiber mats for self-powered sensors","authors":"Debarun Sengupta, A. Kottapalli, J. Miao, C. Kwok","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233936","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports the optimization of various experimental parameters for electrospinning Polyvinylidene Fluoride nanofiber mats in order to maximize their performance in sensing applications. Due to growing demand for ultra-low power wearable technology, piezoelectric nanofibers are getting special attention for energy harvesting applications. Polyvinylidene Fluoride based piezoelectric nanofibers are particularly promising because of their bio-compatibility and low cost. In this work, a detailed study is carried out to optimize the electrospinning parameters to control the morphology and maximizer the piezoelectric property of Polyvinylidene Fluoride nanofibers mats. Application of optimized nanofiber mat has been demonstrated in the end which will find applications in wearable technology and other passive sensing applications.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90702904","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}
Hirotaka Yoshioka, Shota Ueno, F. Sassa, K. Hayashi
{"title":"Odorants measurement using hyperspectral imaging and PVC film including multi fluorescent probes","authors":"Hirotaka Yoshioka, Shota Ueno, F. Sassa, K. Hayashi","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234328","url":null,"abstract":"Odor imaging sensor was developed with odorants sensing mechanism based on the complicated fluorescence interactions between the multi-fluorescent-probes and odorants. In this research, poly vinyl chloride (PVC) films including various fluorescent probe were developed, and fluorescence properties of the film were investigated. Using the multi fluorescent probe film, fluorescence intensity change spectrum to various odorants was measured, and odorants could be clustered by their chemical structure by multi-variate analyses of hyper spectra images.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80372146","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":"3D printed flexible capacitive force sensor with a simple micro-controller based readout","authors":"Martijn Schouten, R. Sanders, G. Krijnen","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233949","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a proof of principle of a flexible force sensor and the corresponding readout circuit. The flexible force sensor consists of a parallel plate capacitor that is 3D printed using regular and conductive thermoplastic poly-urethane (TPU). The capacitance change due to an applied sinusoidal force is measured using an LCR meter. A proof of principle, using an oscillatory readout circuit consisting of only an operational amplifier and a frequency-counter based on an Arduino Nano, is provided. This indicates the possibility to implement low-cost capactive sensors into 3D printed objects, which is especially interesting for customised robotic and prosthetic applications.","PeriodicalId":92164,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS). IEEE Staff","volume":"71 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76390600","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}