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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"sensor development"”.
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Microfabricated Shear -Sensitive Tactile Sensor: Development and Application
This research includes the sensor design, fabrication, modeling, characterization, and application. The sensor design is based on a silicon diaphragm structure instrumented with four piezoresistors. A square mesa on top of the diaphragm is used to convert an applied force into stress. Each of the …
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Smart shoe force sensor development and analysis for walking gait
… thesis builds upon previous developed smart shoe sensors adapted from the MIT Cheetah robot using pressure sensors embedded in urethane rubber, Smooth-On's Vytaflex® 20. Past work developed accurate material models in Abaqus CAE to simulate foot contacts for compression and shear. This thesis …
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Sensor development for estimation of biomass yield applied to Miscanthus Giganteus
… MxG stems, a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor based height measurement approach was developed. The LIDAR was applied to scan to the MxG vertically. Two measurement modes: static and dynamic, were designed and tested. A geometrical MxG height measurement model was developed and analyzed …
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Control and Sensor Development on a Four-Wheel Pyramidal Reaction Wheel Platform
… will be to evaluate the effects of conjoining sensors to maximize pointing accuracy. Furthermore, the system will incorporate a star tracker in conjunction with a Simulated Star Field (SSF) to better estimate the PRWP orientation. For the sake of this document, however, the goal is to implement …
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Modeling and analysis of performance of the steering angle sensor development project
… rapid schedules for current and future product developments. Successful companies in this industry are those that are able to forecast and meet important deadlines, satisfy performance requirements and reduce costs to keep development within budget. But frequently one or two factors are achieved …
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Understanding and Mimicking the Fly's Directional Hearing: Modeling, Sensor Development, and Experimental Studies
… this mechanics model is used to guide the development of a large-scale microphone and a fly-ear sized microphone, both of which are experimentally studied by using a low-coherence fiber optic interferometric detection system. With the large-scale sensor, the importance of using proper …
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Environmental Analysis at the Nanoscale: From Sensor Development to Full Scale Data Processing
… of tens to hundreds of cells demanded the development of an automated processing tool to perform basic SERS analyses such as baseline correction, peak feature selection, and SERS map generation. The analysis tool was subsequently expanded for use with a multitude of diverse SERS …
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Feasibility of Ellipsometric Sensor Development for Use During PECVD SiOx Coated Polymer Product Manufacturing
Polymeric materials have provided pathways to products that could not be manufactured otherwise. A new technology which merges the benefits of ceramics into these polymer products has created materials ideally suited to many different industries, like food packaging. Nano Scale Surface Systems, …
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Evaluation of a planar optic waveguide as a platform for evanescent field chemical sensor development
… of the device for evanescent field chemical sensor development in the visible spectral region. However, it was discovered that selective prism and grating coupling to discrete waveguide modes was not possible due to strong crosstalk between modes in multiple mode Ag$\sp+$-exchange waveguide …
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Investigation of metal nanomaterials as a sensing element in LSPR-based optical fibre sensor development
… interaction to create wavelength-based sensors for the detection of anti-human IgG. Both probes have exhibited excellent refractive index (RI) sensitivity, showing ~914 nm/RIU (refractive index unit) for the probe coated with gold nanoparticles and ~601 nm/RIU for the one coated with …
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An Electrochemical Sensor Development Platform: Applications of System Identification to Biological Sensing in Evolving Fluids
… Compact, low-cost electrochemical sensors that monitor microorganism population and growth have attracted attention as replacements for days-long plate-counting -- potentially delivering results within hours or seconds by monitoring model parameters from diverse physical and …
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The Art of Coffee Roasting: Investigations into Sensor Development for the Application of Controlling Coffee Roasting
… them to be used as elements in future roasting sensor systems.
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Toward Auto-Calibration of Navigation Sensors for Miniature Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
… of calibration algorithms built into the sensors also diminishes. Thus, there is a need for developing automatic sensor calibration techniques. This thesis presents the theoretical and simulation results of calibration algorithms developed for an electronic magnetic compass and heading …
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On robust and adaptive soft sensors.
… far beyond these applications. The task of soft sensors is the maximal exploitation of this potential by extracting and transforming the latent information from the data into more useful process knowledge. Theoretically, achieving this goal should be straightforward since the process data as well …
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Applications of Magnetoelectric Sensors
… I concentrate on application study for ME sensors with respect to noise control and rejection, thermal stability, triple-axis sensor design, array imaging, DC and AC magnetic sources detection and active mode ME sensor development, which is important for future ME sensor device applications.
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SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL BODIPY LIBRARIES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN BIOIMAGING
… species has leaded large efforts towards sensor development. We first applied a combinatorial approach to construct diversity-oriented fluorescent libraries as chemical tool box based on BODIPY fluorophore. These novel BODIPY libraries were then carried out in both unbiased in vitro …
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DUAL-SIGNAL READOUT ANALYTICAL TOOLS: DESIGN, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATIONS IN SENSING
This thesis contributes to the field of chemical sensors by developing dual-signal detection devices that enhance both sensitivity and reliability. It introduces a new generation of bimodal and ratiometric sensors suitable for varied applications, especially in the crucial areas of health and …
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Investigation of synthetic methods for preparation of 2<sup>o</sup>-amino derivatives of 5-amino- 1, 10-phenanthroline: Applications to Cu<sup>+2</sup> based impedance sensors
… and impedance resonance-based Cu<sup>2+</sup> sensors. Potential applications include monitoring Cu<sup>2+</sup> leaching from anti-fouling coatings on ship hulls. The importance of the planned secondary alkyl amino derivatives will be to test their binding properties to the gold surface …
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