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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"non-contact sensing"”.
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Non-Contact Sensing for Protected Cropping
… for optimized plant growth, but traditional sensing techniques for monitoring plant health and crop quality are often invasive, costly, and labor-intensive. This thesis explores innovative, non-contact sensing methodologies to address key challenges in plant water management and crop quality …
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Multimodal Non-Contact Sensing of Neonatal Vital Signs Using Radar and Video
… a vulnerable population which traditional contact-based monitoring devices are not optimized for their small size and complicated physiology. Adhesive sensors and wires can cause infections, discomfort, and impair the delivery of clinical care. Therefore, these most fragile patients could …
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Characteristics of different focusing antennas in the near field region
… microwave wireless power transmission, remote (non-contact) sensing, and medical applications. Different kinds of antennas such as array antennas, reflector antennas and Fresnel zone plate (FZP) antennas have been used for these applications. Here, first, a new scheme in designing focused array …
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Enhancing safety in telerobotic surgery via haptic feedback
… and model-mediated approach integrating with non-contact sensing are presented. The obvious advantage of the two frameworks is eliminating the need for mounting force/torque sensors on the robotic manipulator. Firstly, a dynamic model-based approach is developed to monitor the robot states and …
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It’s Not Just a Phase: Real-Time Aeroelastic Flutter Control Optical Flow Sensing and Piezoelectric Control of Aeroelastic Flutter
… framework using optical flow as the sole sensing modality, with phase-locked piezoelectric control, inspired by active damping and noise-canceling techniques. A flexible wing model constructed of 0.5 mm thick PETG was outfitted with two macrofiber composite (MFC) piezoelectric actuators …
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Structural Health Monitoring and Seismic Response Assessment of Civil Infrastructure using Target-Tracking Digital Image Correlation
The deployment of wireless or non-contact sensing emerges as an innovativemonitoring alternative in structural health monitoring (SHM) which facilitates monitoringof remote areas such as under bridges crossing waterways, and most importantly, operatesat lower cost due to quicker and cheaper …
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Noncontact sensing systems and autonomous decision-making for early-age concrete
… and subjective, this research aims to develop contactless sensing and computer vision techniques to significantly improve the timing of certain early-age concrete construction activity decisions through quantitative indicators. A non-contact, ultrasonic testing system (UTS) to monitor concrete …
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Vision-based robust structural dynamic monitoring and modal identification using stationary and drone-based imaging systems.
… Vision-based SHM has emerged as a promising non-contact alternative to conventional SHM approaches for estimating structural response and modal parameters. However, vision-based system identification comes with several practical challenges due to low sub-pixel structural motion, hardware …
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Structural health monitoring of inland navigation infrastructure
… a discussion is given on the development of a non-contact, vision-based method to monitor the tension in a component of miter gates known as diagonals. The method utilizes optical-flow to track the displacement of a vibrating diagonal, from which the frequency is obtained and the tension found …