One-dimensional silver nanowires with uniform diameters and different aspect ratios were solvothermally synthesized by reducing silver nitrate with ethylene glycol(EG) in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) a...
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Wireless sensor Networks (WSNs) ordinarily be composed of a large number of low-power sensor nodes which having several functions, that are a battery powered, and thus have very limited energy capacity. To lengthen th...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319746906;9783319746890
Wireless sensor Networks (WSNs) ordinarily be composed of a large number of low-power sensor nodes which having several functions, that are a battery powered, and thus have very limited energy capacity. To lengthen the operational lifetime of a sensor network, energy efficiency should be considered in every aspect of sensor network design. In this paper, Enhanced Hierarchical Routing Technique (EHRT) is proposed to overcome the constraint of limited energy capacity of sensor nodes which enhancing the network lifetime and the energy efficiency. The suggested technique is a cluster-based routing which optimizes the low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy routing technique (LEACH) by using a modified artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA). This modified AFSA selects the optimum clusters' head (CHs) locations by applying a number of behaviors following, preying and swarming on each cluster separately and using a modified fitness function to compare these behaviors' outputs to select the best CHs locations for each cluster separately. A framework for evaluating the performance is constructed and applied to verify the efficiency of the suggested technique comparing to other energy efficient routing techniques;optimized hierarchical routing technique (OHRT), low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), and particle swarm optimized (PSO) routing techniques. The proposed technique yields best results than other techniques OHRT, LEACH, and PSO in terms of energy consumption and network lifetime. It reduces the energy dissipation by factor 0.7 compared with OHRT.
As of today, large-scale wireless sensor networks are adopted for smart building applications as they are easy and flexible to deploy. Low-power wireless nodes can achieve multi-year lifetimes with an AA battery using...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450359511
As of today, large-scale wireless sensor networks are adopted for smart building applications as they are easy and flexible to deploy. Low-power wireless nodes can achieve multi-year lifetimes with an AA battery using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Zig-Bee. However, replacing these batteries at scale is a non-trivial, labor-intensive task. Energy harvesting has emerged as a potential solution to avoid battery replacement but requires compromises such as application specific sensor node design, simplified communication protocol or reduced quality of service. We show the design of a battery-free sensor node using commercial off the shelf components, and present Pible: a Perpetual Indoor BLE sensor node that uses an ambient light energy harvesting system and can support numerous smart building applications. We show trade-offs between node-lifetime, quality of service and light availability and present a predictive algorithm that adapts to changing lighting conditions to maximize node lifetime and application quality of service.
Nowadays, high-speed video microscopy is used in many applications like microrheology(1,2) or flow cytometry(3) to measure mechanical properties of cells or to identify their type. Typically, high-speed cameras use bu...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781510623934
ISBN:
(纸本)9781510623934
Nowadays, high-speed video microscopy is used in many applications like microrheology(1,2) or flow cytometry(3) to measure mechanical properties of cells or to identify their type. Typically, high-speed cameras use buffering to reach very high frame rates due to the limited bandwidth of the interface to a PC like Ethernet or USB. Additionally, analysis of large data is compute-intense and in many cases difficult to do online. We developed a system that consists of a high speed CMOS image sensor combined with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) and a pulsed LED illumination system. Due to an image transformation that is done on the FPGA, the dimensionality of the data is reduced without loss of important information. This leads to a significant reduction of the amount of data as well as to noise reduction as a side effect. Furthermore, we developed a modular analysis toolkit that can be used to do the whole analysis directly on the same FPGA online so that buffering is not required and measurements can run continuously on high frame rates. Hence, we can analyze a large total number of objects at very high throughput rates in microfluidic devices. We present the analysis of diluted whole blood in a microfluidic system with our device as well as a sorting application that uses multiple regions of interest that are observed simultaneously so that particles can be analyzed before and after a manipulation or gate.
Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research field with a variety of applications in healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking and in user-adaptive systems in smart environments. The performance of the acti...
Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research field with a variety of applications in healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking and in user-adaptive systems in smart environments. The performance of the activity recognition system is highly dependent on the features extracted from the sensor data which makes the selection of appropriate features a very important part of HAR. A 1D CNN model trained on accelerometer data is suggested in the paper for automatic feature extraction in a HAR system. A semi-automatic approach is used that effectively and efficiently determines the number of convolutional layers in the network, the number of kernels and the size of the kernels. The experimental results show that the suggested model outperforms several existing recognition approaches that use the same data set.
This paper analyses a wideband six-port based direct millimetre-wave PSK modulator, used to generate an accurate wideband FMCW signal, instead of a less precise conventional voltage controlled oscillator. Variable fre...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538612866
This paper analyses a wideband six-port based direct millimetre-wave PSK modulator, used to generate an accurate wideband FMCW signal, instead of a less precise conventional voltage controlled oscillator. Variable frequency generation is based on rapid variation of input CW mm-wave signal phase in a specific time, as described in the paper. In this purpose, the clockwise or anti-clockwise rotation of the PSK symbols and the corresponding variable data-rate must be considered to obtain the positive and negative ramps of the FMCW slope. The same wideband circuit can have other differed applications, from a simple high data-rate modulator to a valuable module in emerging advanced driver assistance systems (76-81 GHz).
A compact optical alignment structure and a novel beam-tracing method were proposed for tunable laser absorption spectroscopy (TLAS) based gas measurements, in order to minimize sensor size and ease beam alignment pro...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510622418
A compact optical alignment structure and a novel beam-tracing method were proposed for tunable laser absorption spectroscopy (TLAS) based gas measurements, in order to minimize sensor size and ease beam alignment procedure. A near-infrared carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor system was developed based on the alignment structure. A distributed feedback (DFB) laser centered at 6361.3 cm(-1) and a multi-pass gas cell (MPGC) with an effective optical path length of 29.8 m were employed. The sensor system was integrated as standalone equipment by customizing an aluminum baseplate for a stable field operation. A series of experiments were carried out to assess the performance of the sensor system. A limit of detection (LoD) of similar to 7.1 parts-per-million in volume (ppmv) at a 0.4 s averaging time was obtained, and the LoD was reduced to similar to 277 parts-per-billion in volume (ppbv) at an optimum averaging time of 153.6 s. Considering gas mixing times, the rise and fall time were measured to be similar to 290 s and similar to 200 s, respectively.
The monitoring of industrial environments ensures that highly automated processes run without interruption. However, even if the industrial machines themselves are monitored, the communication lines are currently not ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728140704
The monitoring of industrial environments ensures that highly automated processes run without interruption. However, even if the industrial machines themselves are monitored, the communication lines are currently not continuously monitored in todays installations. They are checked usually only during maintenance intervals or in case of error. In addition, the cables or connected machines usually have to be removed from the system for the duration of the test. To overcome these drawbacks, we have developed and implemented a cost-efficient and continuous signal monitoring of Ethernet-based industrial bus systems. Several methods have been developed to assess the quality of the cable. These methods can be classified to either passive or active. Active methods are not suitable if interruption of the communication is undesired. Passive methods, on the other hand, require oversampling, which calls for expensive hardware. In this paper, a novel passive method combined with undersampling targeting cost-efficient hardware is proposed.
Twisted and Coiled Actuator has become widespread in recent years. It has lots of merits in comparison to classical actuators, especially in biomechanical applications. However, the most significant challenge which li...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728166049
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728166056
Twisted and Coiled Actuator has become widespread in recent years. It has lots of merits in comparison to classical actuators, especially in biomechanical applications. However, the most significant challenge which limits the use of this actuator is the unknown behavior of it for actuating and also self-sensing application. In this paper, we will represent a model for Twisted and Coiled Actuator by means of theoretical concepts and experimental data. First, the preparation process will be explained, then the mathematical model for Voltage-Current and Current-Force will be driven via LS identification method. In the result section, the temperature of this actuator will be estimated using measured current and heat transfer equation. Then it will be validated by experiment which shows that this model can be exploited for future applications in which control of the temperature is necessary.
x All-Russian conference with international participation 'Fuel combustion: theory, experiment, applications' This conference was firstly organized in the 70s of the xx century. In recent decades, the Conferen...
x All-Russian conference with international participation 'Fuel combustion: theory, experiment, applications' This conference was firstly organized in the 70s of the xx century. In recent decades, the conference has been held regularly every three years and it is a unique scientific event in Russia that attracts a lot of attention of Russian and foreign scientists and specialists in the field of energy, chemistry and mechanics of reacting media. The present conference covers the following topics: • Theory and numerical modeling of combustion • Heat and mass transfer in combustion systems • Combustion kinetics, catalysts • Combustion in gas-liquid media • Combustion of solid fuel • Combustion in near-and supersonic flows, detonation • Thermoacoustic instability and vibrational combustion • Combustion processes control • Combustion diagnostic methods and instruments • advanced technologies of fuel combustion • Deep coal processing, including gasification • Combustion of unconventional fuels • Issues of creating engines of a new generation • Environmental problems of burning fuels • Fire spreads • Economic issues of fuel power engineering The Scientific Committee appreciates the enormous work of the editorial board and reviewers in the preparation of this volume. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all authors for their research contributions, and also to organizers of the conference for their valuable spadework.
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