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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Sensor Platforms"”.
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Ultrasonic sensor platforms for Non-Destructive Evaluation
… Lamb wave scanner, using autonomous robotic platforms is presented. The scanner is built from a fleet of wireless miniature robotic vehicles, each with a non-contact ultrasonic payload capable of generating the A0 Lamb wave mode in plate specimens. An embedded Kalman filter gives the robots a …
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An architectural selection framework for data fusion in sensor platforms
The role of data fusion in sensor platforms is becoming increasingly important in various domains of science, technology and business. Fusion pertains to the merging or integration of information towards an enhanced level of awareness. This thesis provides a canonical overview of several major …
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NOVEL SENSOR PLATFORMS BASED ON FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS FOR APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOPHYSICS
<p>"Fabry-Perot resonator sensors have been widely used for various physical and chemical measurements owing to their unique advantages over traditional sensors such as high measurement resolution, mechanically robust, and distributed sensing capabilities. This dissertation focuses on the …
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Utilization of aerial sensor platforms for characterization of land-based, distributed radiological sources for radiological event response
A method to characterize distributed radiological sources and the environment using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and commercial-of-the-shelf hardware and software was developed and implemented. High-altitude aerial surveys typically used for widespread distributed sources lack the spatial …
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Multi-sensor platforms for the geophysical evaluation of sensitive archaeological landscapes. Evaluation of and improvement of the MSP40 mobile sensor device for rapid multi-technique and low impact measurements on archaeological sites with vulnerable soil.
Mobile platforms for archaeological purposes have increased in use over the last 20 years with many of the developments coming from Continental Europe. Mobile platform developments have mainly focused on one type of instrumentation, offering multiple sensors, depths of detection or frequencies. …
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Adaptive sampling in autonomous marine sensor networks
… adaptive and cooperative control of autonomous sensor platforms in a marine sensor network is described in the context of the autonomous oceanographic network scenario. This architecture has three major components, an intelligent, logical sensor that provides high-level environmental state …
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Adaptive sampling in autonomous marine sensor networks
… adaptive and cooperative control of autonomous sensor platforms in a marine sensor network is described in the context of the autonomous oceanographic network scenario. This architecture has three major components, an intelligent, logical sensor that provides high-level environmental state …
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Integrated nanoscaled detectors of biochemical species
… industrial research in the development of new sensor prototypes and improvement of existing technologies. With respect to demographic changes and inhomogeneous distribution of the clinical facilities worldwide, especially in rural regions, a new generation of miniaturized biosensors is highly …
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Design and Development of Emerging Platforms for Personal Healthcare
… explores the design and development of advanced sensor platforms to address specific applications in personalised healthcare, which focuses on empowering individuals to monitor and manage their health through tailored and accessible technologies. The work focuses on innovative approaches in …
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Learning commonsense human-language descriptions from temporal and spatial sensor-network data
Embedded-sensor platforms are advancing toward such sophistication that they can differentiate between subtle actions. For example, when placed in a wristwatch, such platforms can tell whether a person is shaking hands or turning a doorknob. Sensors placed on objects in the environment now report …
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Cooperative tracking for persistent littoral undersea surveillance
… we investigate a novel method for multiple sensor platforms acting cooperatively to locate an uncooperative target. Conventional tracking methods based on techniques such as Kalman filtering or particle filters have been used with great success for tracking targets from a single manned …
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An algorithm for reducing atmospheric density model errors using satellite observation data in real-time
… special "calibration satellites" or new sensor platforms. It relies solely on the large quantity of observations of existing satellites, which are already being made for space catalog maintenance. By processing these satellite observations in near real-time, a linear correction factor can …
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Towards cheap, portable and reliable OFET-based biochemical sensors
… devices to enzymatic, immunological, and genetic sensors. In this field, largely driven by the demand for low-cost, disposable devices suitable for large-scale screening purposes, various OTFT architectures such as electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors (EGOFETs), organic …
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Newton : a language for describing physics
Sensors embedded within hardware platforms such as smart-watches and cars read in streams of data. These sensor data may be related to each other by invariants or may have other value constraints, but computing in sensor platforms currently ignores these invariants between sensor data. If the …
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Adaptive sampling and forecasting with mobile sensor networks
This thesis addresses planning of mobile sensor networks to extract the best information possible out of the environment to improve the (ensemble) forecast at some verification region in the future. To define the information reward associated with sensing paths, the mutual information is adopted to …
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Functional Materials and Device Concepts for Magnetic Sensing, Gas Detection and Energy Harvesting
… their potential integration into self-sustaining sensor platforms for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, amid growing demand for sensing systems in industrial, environmental, and biomedical fields. The first part addresses passive, highly sensitive magnetic-field sensors for low-power and …
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The design of a power system using treated aluminum fuel
… fuel for underwater vehicles and ocean sensor platforms. The biggest challenge in using aluminum as a fuel has been overcoming the rapidly-forming oxide layer that gives aluminum its excellent corrosion resistance. Recently, a safe, controllable, and inexpensive treatment process was …
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Development of a Data Collection System for Tightly Integrated GNSS, IMU, Radar, and LiDAR Navigation
… driving systems that can safely rely on multiple sensors including GNSS, IMU, Radar and LiDAR to navigate with high accuracy, integrity, continuity, and availability in complex urban environments. Many existing data sets, collected with multi-sensor platforms, focus on validating different …
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Biomimetic Biomechanical Sensors for Intelligent Wearable Interfaces
… sensing by developing nature-inspired wearable sensor technologies that emulate and extend the complex structure and functions of biological tissues such as human skin and fingers. Human skin operates as a dynamic biomechanical interface, encoding rich physiological and behavioural information …
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Carbon nanotube-based sensors for label-free protein detection
Optical biosensors based on fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are a promising alternative to conventional biosensors due to the exceptional photophysical properties of SWNT. Such sensors can enable highly-sensitive, selective, and real-time detection of biological analytes. However, …
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