The growth in the capacity of electric power system creates a necessity demand on protection relaying systems. Optical current transducers (OCT) which are mainly single mode optical fiber subjected to Faraday rotation...
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The growth in the capacity of electric power system creates a necessity demand on protection relaying systems. Optical current transducers (OCT) which are mainly single mode optical fiber subjected to Faraday rotation...
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The growth in the capacity of electric power system creates a necessity demand on protection relaying systems. Optical current transducers (OCT) which are mainly single mode optical fiber subjected to Faraday rotation are used as replacement for EM transducers for their immunity to the EM interference. However, the sensitivity to currents depends on the Verdet constant which is low in optical fiber but the optical path length can be increased to compensate for it by winding the fiber around a current carrying element a large number of turns. In this work, we would like to study the effect of the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field induced by the current in the sensitivity of the optical fiber sensor.
A positioning system is introduced which overcomes the limitations of existing indoor positioning systems by the use of artificial quasi static magnetic fields. The proposed DC magnetic signals show no special multipa...
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A positioning system is introduced which overcomes the limitations of existing indoor positioning systems by the use of artificial quasi static magnetic fields. The proposed DC magnetic signals show no special multipath effects and have excellent characteristics for penetrating various obstacles. In this contribution the theory of coil-based magnetic fields as well as the basic function principle of the positioning system are described. Furthermore, a prototype that is currently under development is presented.
A model aimed to describe the capacitance between probe electrodes and the conductive parts of planar electronic devices is presented. The probe electrodes are the constitutive part of a sensor chip used in an inspect...
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A model aimed to describe the capacitance between probe electrodes and the conductive parts of planar electronic devices is presented. The probe electrodes are the constitutive part of a sensor chip used in an inspection system which is exclusively based on capacitive coupling and employed for the inspection of devices such as flat panel displays and printed electronic circuits. Finite element (FE) simulations of the sensor signal are used to determine the model parameters and to verify the obtained results. The capacitive coupling for arbitrary configurations of parallel arranged conductor tracks and various distances between the tracks and the sensor chip is reproduced by the model. Absolute values of the capacitance with deviations below 5% can be obtained.
Since many diseases cause changes in the mechanical properties of soft tissues, it is of interest to image their elasticity. Detection of tumors in early stages is challenging but paramount for the proper treatment of...
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Since many diseases cause changes in the mechanical properties of soft tissues, it is of interest to image their elasticity. Detection of tumors in early stages is challenging but paramount for the proper treatment of patients and thus to reduce the mortality rate. Elasticity imaging (elastography) has great potential to improve tumor diagnosis and is being developed and tested by several research groups with ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As opposed to MRI, medical ultrasound is widely available, much more cost-effective and most of all a real-time imaging modality. In this paper we evaluate ultrasonic shear wave elastography, a dynamic approach to determine soft tissue properties. Our feasibility study using tissue-mimicking phantoms demonstrates that low frequency shear wave oscillation amplitudes in the micrometer range can be measured using commercial ultrasound scanners in combination with a particular signal processing method. Stiff tissue regions (tumors) show smaller shear wave amplitudes than the surrounding normal tissue. Not only can the examination time be reduced from about 10-20 minutes (MRI) to a few seconds, it may also soon be possible to detect certain cardiovascular dysfunctions in real-time using ultrasonic shear wave elastography.
The energetic model of ferromagnetic hysteresis (EM) is applied to typical MnZn-ferrite-material. The EM simulates hysteresis loops from the demagnetised state up to saturation, including all sorts of major and minor ...
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The energetic model of ferromagnetic hysteresis (EM) is applied to typical MnZn-ferrite-material. The EM simulates hysteresis loops from the demagnetised state up to saturation, including all sorts of major and minor loops and their dependence on the rate of change with time. Due to the high specific resistivity of ferrites the hysteresis losses dominate the losses of ferrite components, even at high frequencies. The EM is used to directly determine hysteresis losses for small excitations by a Rayleigh-law-approximation. The simulation results are compared to measurements on a typical commercial MnZn-ferrite-torus.
It has been observed in photoelectric devices that stresses and strains can cause inhomogeneous distribution of the refractive index which affects their performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the stress ef...
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It has been observed in photoelectric devices that stresses and strains can cause inhomogeneous distribution of the refractive index which affects their performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the stress effect on the behavior of optical waveguide sensor containing a dielectric film sandwiched between a linear substrate and a nonlinear cladding. The cladding refractive index profile is assumed to have Kerr like intensity dependence. The effective refractive indices and mode shapes of the optical waveguide sensor subject to different stress states are calculated analytically. The effect of such variation on the light intensity and implications on the sensor sensitivity are investigated. It is found that stress can affect the optical sensitivity performance.
Segmentation plays an important role in image processing. Its goal is to divide an image into disjoint parts by defined rules. We present a method to accomplish an illumination-based segmentation of structured surface...
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Segmentation plays an important role in image processing. Its goal is to divide an image into disjoint parts by defined rules. We present a method to accomplish an illumination-based segmentation of structured surface...
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Segmentation plays an important role in image processing. Its goal is to divide an image into disjoint parts by defined rules. We present a method to accomplish an illumination-based segmentation of structured surfaces based on surface properties. To this end, an illumination series - i.e. a series of images taken with directional light from different directions - is recorded. For each location of the surface, a signal is extracted which describes the intensity of the corresponding point depending on the illumination angle. From this signal, features are extracted that enable a pointwise segmentation of the surface. Aided by suitable parametric models, the surface reflectance is described, and the corresponding parameters are estimated from the intensity signal. Moreover, the effect of sampling the illumination space is discussed. On the one hand, it is desirable to keep the number of illumination angles as small as possible. On the other hand, a minimum number of images is needed to achieve a reliable segmentation. The performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated with real images. They prove that the higher data acquisition expense is compensated by a significant increase of both the spatial resolution and the robustness
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