This work reports the fabrication and electrochemical characterization of the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic three-electrode cell chip utilizing diamond-like carbon (DLC) films as a working electrode for amp...
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This work reports the fabrication and electrochemical characterization of the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic three-electrode cell chip utilizing diamond-like carbon (DLC) films as a working electrode for amperometric biosensing applications. The DLC films are prepared by a radio-frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RF-PECVD) technique with CH4 as a carbon precursor gas. Raman spectroscopy is employed to characterize the film structures. Cyclic voltammetry is used to investigate the responses of a standard redox species (K3Fe(CN)6 in KNO3) at the three-electrode system. Immobilization of glucose oxidase at the DLC surfaces is attempt through a covalent linkage. Preliminary results indicate that a mediator-free amperometric detection of glucose can be achieved with this device.
In many practical applications, constraints are often present on, for example, the magnitudes of the control inputs. Recently, based on a novel successive projection framework, two constrained iterative learning contr...
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In many practical applications, constraints are often present on, for example, the magnitudes of the control inputs. Recently, based on a novel successive projection framework, two constrained iterative learning control (ILC) algorithms were developed with different convergence properties and computational requirements. This paper investigates the effectiveness of these two methods experimentally on a gantry robot facility, which has been extensively used to test a wide range of linear model based ILC algorithms. The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithms in solving one form of the general constrained ILC problem.
This work portrays the development of wireless smart shoe for gait analysis. Force sensitive resistors (FSRs) and resistive bend sensor were employed by mounting onto a shoe for detection of pressure distribution bene...
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(纸本)9781467348904
This work portrays the development of wireless smart shoe for gait analysis. Force sensitive resistors (FSRs) and resistive bend sensor were employed by mounting onto a shoe for detection of pressure distribution beneath the foot during normal and abnormal walking. In the present study, we have been interested in 3 walking postures including normal walking, tiptoe walking and dragging foot walking. Wireless sensor network (WSN) based on ZigBee technology was employed in this work for data communication. The Principal component analysis (PCA) was used for pattern recognition in the analysis part. It was shown that the smart shoe was successful to classify between normal gait pattern and some abnormal gait patterns.
A fast and accurate liver segmentation method is a challenging work in medical image analysis area. Liver segmentation is an important process for computer-assisted diagnosis, pre-evaluation of liver transplantation a...
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(纸本)9781467325851
A fast and accurate liver segmentation method is a challenging work in medical image analysis area. Liver segmentation is an important process for computer-assisted diagnosis, pre-evaluation of liver transplantation and therapy planning of liver tumors. There are several advantages of magnetic resonance imaging such as free form ionizing radiation and good contrast visualization of soft tissue. Also, innovations in recent technology and image acquisition techniques have made magnetic resonance imaging a major tool in modern medicine. However, the use of magnetic resonance images for liver segmentation has been slow when we compare applications with the central nervous systems and musculoskeletal. The reasons are irregular shape, size and position of the liver, contrast agent effects and similarities of the gray values of neighbor organs. Therefore, in this study, we present a fully automatic liver segmentation method by using an approximation of the level set based contour evolution from T2 weighted magnetic resonance data sets. The method avoids solving partial differential equations and applies only integer operations with a two-cycle segmentation algorithm. The efficiency of the proposed approach is achieved by applying the algorithm to all slices with a constant number of iteration and performing the contour evolution without any user defined initial contour. The obtained results are evaluated with four different similarity measures and they show that the automatic segmentation approach gives successful results.
Expressing user's preferences in database querying is best achieved by fuzzy modeling of linguistic terms included in selection criteria. This paper deals with temporal criteria, for querying date/time columns in ...
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Expressing user's preferences in database querying is best achieved by fuzzy modeling of linguistic terms included in selection criteria. This paper deals with temporal criteria, for querying date/time columns in classical relational databases. Fuzzy models for some linguistic terms and ways to operate with them, in order to evaluate queries, are proposed.
Today's artefacts, from small devices to buildings and cities, are, or are becoming, cyber-physical socio-technical systems, with tightly interwoven material and computational parts. Currently, we have to laboriou...
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This article aims to publish research, development of remote medical services. Also known as e-Health for medical application National Broadband Project. The prototype HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Medical Cente...
This article aims to publish research, development of remote medical services. Also known as e-Health for medical application National Broadband Project. The prototype HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Medical Center Nakhon Nayok Province. This project is integrating other sciences such as Biomedical engineering, Telecommunications engineering, Electronic engineering, and Computing engineering and includes both direct medical and so on. This project is focus for medical services to around communities who live within the radius of radio wave propagation in the area of 2,500-2,520 MHz for spread to Thailand based on international standards of wireless broadband technology. This project consists of four sub-projects were: - Sub-project 1st: Development of Patient's Electrocardiogram Monitoring on WiMAX technology around MSMC Sub-project 2nd: Primary Health Care Mobile Doctor and Development of Tele-Consult while Home Visit by Patients via WiMAX around MSMC.
Biometric system has been actively emerging in various industries for the past few years, and it is continuing to roll to provide higher security features for access control system. In the recent years, hand based bio...
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Biometric system has been actively emerging in various industries for the past few years, and it is continuing to roll to provide higher security features for access control system. In the recent years, hand based biometrics is extensively used for personal recognition. In this paper a new biometric system based on texture of the hand knuckles, namely Finger-Knuckle-Print (FKP), is proposed. To extract the image local texture information and represent the FKPs features, the 2D Block based Discrete Cosine Transform (2D-BDCT), is employed. Finally, performance of all finger types is determined individually and a min rule fusion is applied to develop a multimodal system. Experimental results show that 2D-DCT-mod2 yields the best performance for identifying FKPs and it is able to provide an excellent recognition rate and provide more security.
A 150W series-parallel resonant converter dedicated for audio-video equipment is proposed. The converter utilizes an integrated magnetic component that allows for easier inductor design and improvement in size and eff...
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A 150W series-parallel resonant converter dedicated for audio-video equipment is proposed. The converter utilizes an integrated magnetic component that allows for easier inductor design and improvement in size and efficiency. A performance analysis focusing converter losses is conducted followed by creation of a simulation model, that includes various sources of losses is presented. The simulation model includes a simplified method for calculating core losses based on the common core parameters and the value of the flux flowing through that core. Lastly the converter simulation model is verified with measurement from a physical model. The establishment of this kind of model will useful in the future for predicting performance when different control schemes are applied.
This paper presents parameter sensitivity study and performance analysis of field-excitation flux switching synchronous machine (FEFSSM) for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications. The proposed machine consists of...
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This paper presents parameter sensitivity study and performance analysis of field-excitation flux switching synchronous machine (FEFSSM) for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications. The proposed machine consists of 12 armature slots, 12 field-excitation coil (FEC) slots and 10 rotor poles. All active parts such as armature coil and FEC are located on the stator, while the rotor part consists of only single piece iron. This makes the machine becoming more robust and more suitable to be apply for high speed motor drive system application. The target performances of the motor are a maximum torque of 210Nm, a maximum power of 123kW, a power density of more than 3.5kW/kg, and a maximum speed of 20,000r/min. The deterministic design optimization approach is used to treat several design parameters defined in rotor, armature and FEC slot area until the target performances are achieved. Results based on 2D-FEA show that the final design has successfully achieved the target performances, achieved much higher power density of approximately 4.82kW/kg, and has good rotor mechanical strength at maximum speed compared to existing IPMSM installed on a commercial SUV-HEV.
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