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Solid electrolyte gas sensors based on cyclic voltammetry with one active electrode
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań elektrokatalitycznego czujnika gazów toksycznych z jedną elektrodą aktywną.
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An adaptive wing for a samll-aircraft application with a configuration of fibre Bragg greting sensors
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono koncepcję skrzydła o zmiennej geometrii wymuszanej układem siłowników zbudowanych z matriału z pamięcią kształtu oraz układem czujników optycznych z siatką Bragga do monitorowania jego stanu odkształceń.
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Tunable semiconductor laser application for interferometric optical fibersensors.Optical and Electronic Sensors V.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono metody stabilizacji punktu pracy światłowodowych sensorów interferometrycznych. W metodach tych wykorzystuje się układy regulacji sterujące długością fali przestrajalnego lasera półprzewodnikowego. Przedstawiono tryby pracy układów regulacji oraz problemy związane z ich projektowaniem i realizacją. Przeanalizowano ograniczenia sensorów wykorzystujących powyższe układy. Dokonano weryfikacji eksperymentalnej...
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Computer simulation of current voltage response of elektrocatalytic sensor.Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors V.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki symulacji komputerowej działania czujnika elektrokatalitycznego. Do badań wykorzystano program D. Gossera opierający się na metodzie różnic skończonych.
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Sensors integration in the smart home environment - a proposal to solve the problem with user identification
PublicationIn this preliminary study we, investigate the possibility of user recognition techniques suitable on smart home devices like chairs, beds, aiming for low–power, high accuracy and quick response time. We propose the two well know technique: voice speaker recognition and accelerometer signal from device mounted on the chair, and the third one optical system basing on IR LED transmitter/receiver circuit. The preliminary results proved...
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Accurate Lightweight Calibration Methods for Mobile Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors
PublicationMonitoring air pollution is a critical step towards improving public health, particularly when it comes to identifying the primary air pollutants that can have an impact on human health. Among these pollutants, particulate matter (PM) with a diameter of up to 2.5 μ m (or PM2.5) is of particular concern, making it important to continuously and accurately monitor pollution related to PM. The emergence of mobile low-cost PM sensors...
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High-Resolution, Broad-Range Detection Setup for Polarimetric Optical Fiber Sensors
PublicationA common-path polarization interferometer using a Wollaston prism and an area detector for the measurement of retardation or optical path difference is presented. Employing a moderate-resolution 1280 by 1024 pixel monochrome camera, it offers a measurement range of approximately 780 radians at 830 nm and 1350 radians at 515 nm while maintaining a high measurement resolution. Retardation introduced by a zero-order waveplate or a...
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Resistance noise in tio2-based thin film gas sensors underultraviolet irradiation
PublicationBadano możliwości wykorzystania fluktuacji rezystancji w cienkich warstwach TiO2 do wykrywania gazów. Pomiary przeprowadzono, gdy próbka była oświetlona promieniowaniem ultrafioletowym o długości 370nm, w obecności gazu H2S. Stwierdzono, że fluktuacje rezystancji są indukowane promieniowaniem ultrafioletowym i pozwalają na wykrycie obecności H2S w stężeniu do 1.5 ppm.
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Autonomous Perception and Grasp Generation Based on Multiple 3D Sensors and Deep Learning
PublicationGrasping objects and manipulating them is the main way the robot interacts with its environment. However, for robots to operate in a dynamic environment, a system for determining the gripping position for objects in the scene is also required. For this purpose, neural networks segmenting the point cloud are usually applied. However, training such networks is very complex and their results are unsatisfactory. Therefore, we propose...
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A Review of Emotion Recognition Methods Based on Data Acquired via Smartphone Sensors
PublicationIn recent years, emotion recognition algorithms have achieved high efficiency, allowing the development of various affective and affect-aware applications. This advancement has taken place mainly in the environment of personal computers offering the appropriate hardware and sufficient power to process complex data from video, audio, and other channels. However, the increase in computing and communication capabilities of smartphones,...
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Starter for Voltage Boost Converter to Harvest Thermoelectric Energy for Body-Worn Sensors
PublicationThis paper examines the suitability of selected configurations of ultra-low voltage (ULV) oscilla-tors as starters for a voltage boost converter to harvest energy from a thermoelectric generator (TEG). Important properties of particularly promising configurations, suitable for on-chip imple-mentation are compared. On this basis, an improved oscillator with a low startup voltage and a high output voltage swing is proposed. The applicability...
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Interface circuit for impedance sensors using two specialized single-chip microsystems
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono obwód interfejsu przeznaczony do pomiaru parametrów impedancyjnych czujników lub celek pomiarowych instalowanych na obiektach technicznych. Umożliwia on pomiar modułu i argumentu impedancji w zakresie 10ohm
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A High-Efficient Measurement System With Optimization Feature for Prototype CMOS Image Sensors
PublicationIn this paper, a gray-scale CMOS image sensor (CIS) characterization system with an optimization feature has been proposed. By using a very fast and precise control of light intensity, based on the pulsewidth-modulation method, it is avoided to measure the illuminance every time. These features accelerate the multicriteria CIS optimization requiring many thousands of measurements. The system throughput is 2.5 Gb/s, which allows...
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An Ultra-Low-Energy Analog Comparator for A/D Converters in CMOS Image Sensors
PublicationThis paper proposes a new solution of an ultra-low-energy analog comparator, dedicated to slope analog-to-digital converters (ADC), particularly suited for CMOS image sensors (CISs) featuring a large number of ADCs. For massively parallel imaging arrays, this number may be as high as tens-hundreds of thousands ADCs. As each ADC includes an analog comparator, the number of these comparators in CIS is always high. Detailed analysis...
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Automatic tuning of a resonant circuit in wireless power supply systems for biomedical sensors
PublicationIn this paper, a tuning method of a resonant circuit suited for wireless powering of miniature endoscopic capsules is presented and discussed. The method allows for an automatic tuning of the resonant frequency and matching impedance of a full wave rectifier loading the resonant circuit. Thereby, the receiver tunes so as to obtain the highest power efficiency under given conditions of transmission. A prototype receiver for wireless...
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Automatic sound source localization in disturbing conditions using acoustic vector sensors
PublicationA concept, practical realization and applications of a passive acoustic radar to automatic localization and tracking of sound sources in disturbing conditions were presented in the paper. The device consists of the new kind of multichannel miniature sound intensity sensors and a group of digital signal processing algorithms. The sensitivity of the realized acoustic radar was examined in free sound field. Several kinds of sound...
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Sensor data fusion techniques for environment modelling
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Investigations of a new humidity sensor with polymer film
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki badań impedancyjnych nowego czujnika wilgotności z filmem polimerowym. Jako polimer wykorzystano chemicznie modyfikowaną polietylenoiminę.
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Reconstruction of input signal of sensor with frequency output
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VIBRATION DIAGNOSTICS OF FOOTBRIDGE WITH USE OF ROTATION SENSOR
PublicationThe benefits of the additional measurement of rotational degrees of free-dom on the performance of the vibration diagnosis of bridges are studied in this paper. The common vibrational diagnostics that uses translational degrees of freedom is extended by measurements of rotations. The study is curried out on a footbridge and the presence of damage as well as its location and size is determined with use of FEM updating procedure....
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Distributed wireless sensor for measuring humidity and temperature
PublicationHumidity and temperature monitoring is often required in industrial halls and laboratories and can be crucial, because many properties of electrical devices deteriorates under influence of these parameters. There are several useful commercial methods for measuring humidity and temperature, such as commercial hygrometers and humidity recorders. However, they do not allow data acquisition simultaneously from multiple sensors. This...
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On a design of a torque sensor for the iCub humanoid robot
PublicationThe paper presents the evaluation process of a first version of the one axis torque sensor designed for the iCub humanoid robot. Newly designed strain gauges equipped sensor was found to show a significant readouts hysteresis, therefore several tests were run to define the reason of the hysteresis. Some of the design issues met while testing the new sensor are discussed including the screws connection and relative rigidity of the...
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Voltammetric response of ceramic Nasicon ammonia sensor
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań eksperymentalnych odpowiedzi czujnika w różnych stężeniach amoniaku. Czujnik został wykonany w technologii ceramicznej na bazie elektrolitu stałego - NASICONu.
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electrocatalytic sensor based on nasicon with auxiliary layer
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań czujników elektrokatalitycznych z dodatkową warstwą. Właściwości takiego czujnika porównano z czujnikiem o tradycyjnej budowie.
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A compact smart resistive sensor based on a microcontroller
PublicationPrzedstawiono nowe rozwiązanie inteligentnego czujnika rezystancyjnego bazującego na mikrokontrolerze, w którym czujnik rezystancyjny jest elementem składowym filtra anty-aliazingowego przetwornika A/C. Procedura pomiaru temperatury obejmuje pobudzenie filtra dwoma impulsami prostokątnymi o zadanym czasie trwania oraz próbkowanie jego odpowiedzi czasowej. Następnie na podstawie wartości pomierzonych próbek napięcia wyznaczana jest...
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Thick film Lisicon sensor with gold electrodes.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono preparatykę i badania czujnika gazowego na bazie litowego jonoprzewodzącego elektrolitu stałego. Czujnik został przygotowany w technologii grubowarstwowej. Jego zasada działania polega na pomiarze prądu elektrycznego w czasie liniowych zmian napięcia. Charakterystyki prądowo-napięciowe czujnika mają unikalny kształt, zależny od rodzaju gazu oraz jego koncentracji. Pomiary wykonano w mieszaninach dwutlenku...
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Lisicon solid electrolyte electrocatalytic gas sensor
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono sposób przygotowania oraz wyniki badań elektrokatalitycznego czujnika gazów na bazie Lisicon'owego elektrolitu stałego. Przedstawiono charakterystyki czujnika w mieszaninie dwutlenku azotu oraz dwutlenku siarki w syntetycznym powietrzu. Odpowiedź I-V czujnika w unikalny sposób zależy od stężenia i rodzaju gazu w otoczeniu czujnika.
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Application of a cationic surfactant in the multichanel taste sensor
PublicationSubstancje należaće do czterech klas smaku były badane za pomocą pięciokanałowego sensora smaku składającego się z elektrod z membranami polimerowo-lipidowymi. Wykazanano, że elektroda zbudowana z membrany polimerowej zawierajacej kationowy surfaktant może byc z powodzeniem zastosoana w sensorze smaku do rozpoznania napojów składających sie głównie z sacharozy i kwasu cytrynowego produkowanych przez rózne firmy.
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Application of nonlinearity measures to chemical sensor signals
PublicationSzumy rezystancji sensorów gazu zawierają istotną informację, która może być przedstawiona nie tylko przez ich gęstość widmową mocy. Analiza tych szumów za pomocą różnych miar nieliniowości może prowadzić do znacznego wzrostu selektywności i czułości czujników gazu. Stwierdzono, że dla dostępnych na rynku czujników gazu zastosowanie funkcji bispektrum dostarcza dodatkowej informacji, potrzebnej do detekcji różnych gazów. Analizując...
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Microwave Ring Resonator Based Pressure Sensor
PublicationThis paper demonstrates a microwave pressure sensor, which is based on microstrip line-fed ring resonators. The first ring resonator is loaded with the concentric cylindrical shafts, while the same number of the hollow shanks as the shafts are mounted on the second ring resonator. The arrangement of the cylindrical shaft and hollow shank allows for mechanical movement between two substrates while maintaining electrical contact....
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Staircase Voltammetry Application to Electrocatalytic Gas Sensor
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań czujnika elektrokatalicznego pobudzanego sygnałem schodkowym w różnych mieszaninach gazowych .
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Application of wavelength division multiplexing in sensor networks
PublicationOver the past few years the need to acquire data on various parameters from a number of sensors grew. The need that led to the development of a network of sensors which enables simultaneous control and measurement in a wide range of applications. The aim of this article is to discuss a possibility of connecting a variety of sensors in a network that would utilize WDM technology. Wavelength Division Multiplexing is commonly used...
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Near Field Coupled Wireless Microwave Sensor
PublicationThis paper presents a wireless planar microwave sensor operating at industrial scientific and medical (ISM) frequency for the detection of dielectric materials. The microwave sensor consists of a reader (ground defected microstrip coupled line) and a passive tag where a complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR) is made on the commercially available copper-foil. The CSRR is a peel-off type tag that is excited using the near field...
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The Transmission Protocol of Sensor Ad Hoc Networks
PublicationThis paper presents a secure protocol for a radio Ad Hoc sensor network. This network uses the TDMA multiple access method. The transmission rate on the radio channel is 57.6 kbps. The paper presents the construction of frames, types of packets and procedures for the authentication, assignment of time slots available to the node, releasing assigned slots and slots assignment conflict detection.
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Polypyrrole based gas sensor for ammonia detection
PublicationThe nature of polypyrrole response to toxic gases does not allow using the sensor in a conventional way. The main aim of this study is to acquire the information about the concentration using different approaches: a linear approximation, a non-linear approximation and a tangent method. In this paper a two-steps procedure for sensor response measurements has been utilized. Polypyrrole films were electrochemically synthesized on...
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Interoperability analysis of sensor interface in ubiquitous environments
PublicationSystemy przetwarzania wszechobecnego pozwalają na integrację różnorodnych sensorów monitorujących i dostarczających informacje dotyczące środowiska oraz jego kontekstu.Fakt, że sensory te implementowane są przez niezależnych dostawców skutkuje problemami integracyjnymi. W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy interfejsów sensorów w trzech warstwach: fizycznej, protokołów oraz usług sensorów.Usługa sensora implementuje interfejs...
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Design of Microwave-Based Angular Displacement Sensor
PublicationThis letter presents a novel microwave-based rotation sensor having a wide dynamic range to detect and measure the angular displacement in terms of the change in resonant frequency. The proposed sensor is based on the microstrip technology, where a rotor comprised of a complementary splitring resonator (CSRR) placed on the ground plane of the microstrip line is free to rotate around its axis. The mechanical rotation of CSRR determines...
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A METHOD OF TRUST MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
PublicationThe research problem considered in this paper is how to protect wireless sensor networks (WSN) against cyber-threats by applying trust management and how to strengthen network resilience to attacks targeting the trust management mechanism itself. A new method, called WSN Cooperative Trust Management Method (WCT2M), of distributed trust management in multi-layer wireless sensor networks is proposed and its performance is evaluated....
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Analysis of Properties of an Active Linear Gesture Sensor
PublicationBasic gesture sensors can play a significant role as input units in mobile smart devices. However, they have to handle a wide variety of gestures while preserving the advantages of basic sensors. In this paper a user-determined approach to the design of a sparse optical gesture sensor is proposed. The statistical research on a study group of individuals includes the measurement of user-related parameters like the speed of a performed...
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Wireless multimodal localization sensor for industrial applications
PublicationThis paper presents the concept and design of a wireless multimodal localization sensor for hybrid localization systems combining vision-based, radio-based and inertial techniques in order to alleviate problems in harsh and complex industrial environments. It supports two radio technologies, 868 MHz UHF RFID and 2.4 GHz WSN, for positioning purposes and communications. The sensor includes LED light transmitters for vision-based...
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Trust Management Method for Wireless Sensor Networks
PublicationA Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. and to cooperatively pass their data to the main location. The first wireless network that bore any real resemblance to a modern WSN is the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), developed by the United States Military in the 1950s to detect and track Soviet...
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Multifunctional Bandpass Filter/Displacement Sensor Component
PublicationThis paper presents the design and realization of a multifunctional bandpassfilter/displacement-sensor using an edge-coupled microstrip bandpass filter loaded by a pair of split ring resonators (SRRs). It is shown that while the structure acts as a bandpass filter at its operating frequency, the phase of the reflection coefficient from a movable loading resonator at the resonance frequency of the resonator can be used for displacement...
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Optoelektroniczne sensory fluorescencyjne dla monitoringu zanieczyszczeń środowiska
Publicationw pracy zaproponowano i opisano optoelektroniczny fluorescencyjny sensor do pomiaru stężenia kobaltu w wodzie. opisano zasadę działania tego typu sensorów. zaproponowano konfigurację laboratoryjnego stanowiska pomiarowego i przeprowadzono dobór niektórych jego komponentów. przedstawiono także etapy dalszych prac badawczych nad konstrukcją sensora.
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SENSORY GARDENS INCLUSIVELY DESIGNED FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS.
PublicationThis paper discusses the design of sensory gardens, created especially to provide for the needs of sight impaired children and youth. These gardens should be inclusively available to general public. A sensory garden may have both therapeutic and educational effects. The research findings concerning therapeutic effects of contact with nature on children and youth are reviewed. The design problems related to providing a space for...
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On the correspondence between two- and three-dimensional Eshelby tensors
PublicationWe consider both three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) Eshelby tensors known also as energy–momentum tensors or chemical potential tensors, which are introduced within the nonlinear elasticity and the resultant nonlinear shell theory, respectively. We demonstrate that 2D Eshelby tensor is introduced earlier directly using 2D constitutive equations of nonlinear shells and can be derived also using the throughthe-thickness...
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Usage of Two-Center Basis Function Neural Classifiers in Compact Smart Resistive Sensors
PublicationA new solution of the smart resistance sensorwith the Two-Center Basis Function (TCBF) neuralclassifier, for which the resistance sensor is a component ofan anti-aliasing filter of an ADC is proposed. Thetemperature measurement procedure is based on excitationof the filter by square impulses, sampling time response ofthe filter and processing measured voltage values by theTCBF classifier. All steps of the measurement procedure...
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An application of neural network for Structural Health Monitoring of an adaptive wing with an array of FBG sensors
PublicationW pracy przedstwiono możliwości zastoswania sieci czujników FBG i sztucznych sieci neuronowych do detekcji uszkodzeń w poszyciu adaptacyjnego skrzydła.
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Single-Slope ADC With Embedded Convolution Filter for Global-Shutter CMOS Image Sensors
PublicationThis brief presents an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) suitable for acquisition and processing of images in the global-shutter mode at the pixel level. The ADC consists of an analog comparator, a multi-directional shift register for the comparator states, and a 16-bit reversible binary counter with programmable step size. It works in the traditional single-slope mode. The novelty is that during each step of the reference ramp,...
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Flicker Noise in Resistive Gas Sensors—Measurement Setups and Applications for Enhanced Gas Sensing
PublicationWe discuss the implementation challenges of gas sensing systems based on low-frequency noise measurements on chemoresistive sensors. Resistance fluctuations in various gas sensing materials, in a frequency range typically up to a few kHz, can enhance gas sensing by considering its intensity and the slope of power spectral density. The issues of low-frequency noise measurements in resistive gas sensors, specifically in two-dimensional...
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Uncertainty Quantification of Additive Manufacturing Post-Fabrication Tuning of Resonator-Based Microwave Sensors
PublicationReconfigurability, especially in terms of the ability of adjusting the operating frequency, has become an important prerequisite in the design of modern microwave components and systems. It is also pertinent to microwave sensors developed for a variety of applications such as characterization of material properties of solids or liquids. This paper discusses uncertainty quantification of additive-manufacturing-based post-fabrication...