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# IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

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• ### Automated Irrigation System Using a Wireless Sensor Network and GPRS Module

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):166 - 176
Cited by:  Papers (49)
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An automated irrigation system was developed to optimize water use for agricultural crops. The system has a distributed wireless network of soil-moisture and temperature sensors placed in the root zone of the plants. In addition, a gateway unit handles sensor information, triggers actuators, and transmits data to a web application. An algorithm was developed with threshold values of temperature an... View full abstract»

• ### Efficient Wireless Powering of Biomedical Sensor Systems for Multichannel Brain Implants

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):754 - 764
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This paper describes the complete mathematical optimization process of an inductive powering system suitable for the application within implanted biomedical systems. The optimization objectives are thereby size, energy efficiency, and tissue absorption. Within the first step, the influence of the operational frequency on the given quantities is computed by means of finite element simulations, yiel... View full abstract»

• ### ECG Signal Analysis Using DCT-Based DOST and PSO Optimized SVM

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):470 - 478
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Signal processing techniques are an obvious choice for real-time analysis of electrocardiography (ECG) signals. However, classical signal processing techniques are unable to deal with the nonstationary nature of the ECG signal. In this context, this paper presents a new approach, i.e., discrete orthogonal stockwell transform using discrete cosine transform for efficient representation of the ECG s... View full abstract»

• ### A Double-Stage Kalman Filter for Orientation Tracking With an Integrated Processor in 9-D IMU

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):590 - 598
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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This paper presents an application-specific integrated processor for an angular estimation system that works with 9-D inertial measurement units. The application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) was implemented on field-programmable gate array and interfaced with a gyro-plus-accelerometer 6-D sensor and with a magnetic compass. Output data were recorded on a personal computer and also use... View full abstract»

• ### A Driver State Detection System—Combining a Capacitive Hand Detection Sensor With Physiological Sensors

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):624 - 636
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With respect to automotive safety, the driver plays a crucial role. Stress level, tiredness, and distraction of the driver are therefore of high interest. In this paper, a driver state detection system based on cellular neural networks (CNNs) to monitor the driver's stress level is presented. We propose to include a capacitive-based wireless hand detection (position and touch) sensor for a steerin... View full abstract»

• ### Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow Measurement Using Coriolis Flowmeters Incorporating Artificial Neural Network, Support Vector Machine, and Genetic Programming Algorithms

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):852 - 868
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Coriolis flowmeters are well established for the mass flow measurement of single-phase flow with high accuracy. In recent years, attempts have been made to apply Coriolis flowmeters to measure two-phase flow. This paper presents data driven models that are incorporated into Coriolis flowmeters to measure both the liquid mass flowrate and the gas volume fraction of a two-phase flow mixture. Experim... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis and Modeling of Inertial Sensors Using Allan Variance

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):140 - 149
Cited by:  Papers (186)  |  Patents (2)
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It is well known that inertial navigation systems can provide high-accuracy position, velocity, and attitude information over short time periods. However, their accuracy rapidly degrades with time. The requirements for an accurate estimation of navigation information necessitate the modeling of the sensors' error components. Several variance techniques have been devised for stochastic modeling of ... View full abstract»

• ### Multiple Visual Features Measurement With Gradient Domain Guided Filtering for Multisensor Image Fusion

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):691 - 703
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Multisensor image fusion technologies, which convey image information from different sensor modalities to a single image, have been a growing interest in recent research. In this paper, we propose a novel multisensor image fusion method based on multiple visual features measurement with gradient domain guided filtering. First, a Gaussian smoothing filter is employed to decompose each source image ... View full abstract»

• ### Measurement of the Intrinsic Properties of Materials by Time-Domain Techniques

Publication Year: 1970, Page(s):377 - 382
Cited by:  Papers (1072)  |  Patents (11)
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In this paper a method is presented for determining the complex permittivity and permeability of linear materials in the frequency domain by a single time-domain measurement; typically, the frequency band extends from VHF through X band. The technique described involves placing an unknown sample in a microwave TEM-mode fixture and exciting the sample with a subnanosecond baseband pulse. The fixtur... View full abstract»

• ### A Distributed FMCW Radar System Based on Fiber-Optic Links for Small Drone Detection

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):340 - 347
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This paper discusses a distributed frequency modulation continuous wave radar system. This K-band radar system has high sensitivity, linearity, and flatness to detect low-radar cross section targets and measure their range and velocity. To reduce the leakage between a transmitter and a receiver, the system uses not RF cables but fiber-optic links that have low distortion characteristics and low pr... View full abstract»

• ### Arc Fault Detection Method Based on CZT Low-Frequency Harmonic Current Analysis

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):888 - 896
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This paper presents a method for the detection of series arc faults in electrical circuits, which has been developed starting from an experimental characterization of the arc fault phenomenon and an arcing current study in several test conditions. Starting from this, the authors have found that is it possible to suitably detect arc faults by means of a high-resolution low-frequency harmonic analys... View full abstract»

• ### Ray-Tracing-Assisted Fingerprinting Based on Channel Impulse Response Measurement for Indoor Positioning

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1032 - 1045
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Position fingerprinting (FP), in which a common position signature is based on the received signal strength (RSS), is one of the most efficient indoor positioning methods. Another position signature, known as the channel impulse response (CIR), is regarded as a linear temporal filter, which characterizes the multipath channel of the operating environment. We implement a channel sounder based on an... View full abstract»

• ### Ultrastable Low-Noise Current Amplifiers With Extended Range and Improved Accuracy

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1425 - 1432
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The ultrastable low-noise current amplifier (ULCA) was developed as an advanced instrument for the improved measurement of currents generated by single-electron transport (SET) devices. It was optimized for direct currents in the picoampere range, and achieves an uncertainty of $<0.1~\mu \text{A}$ /A for a current of 100 pA... View full abstract»

• ### Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition in Depth Data Using Dynamic Time Warping

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):305 - 316
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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This paper discusses the development of a natural gesture user interface that tracks and recognizes in real time hand gestures based on depth data collected by a Kinect sensor. The interest space corresponding to the hands is first segmented based on the assumption that the hand of the user is the closest object in the scene to the camera. A novel algorithm is proposed to improve the scanning time... View full abstract»

• ### Remote Sensing and Control of an Irrigation System Using a Distributed Wireless Sensor Network

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1379 - 1387
Cited by:  Papers (147)  |  Patents (2)
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Efficient water management is a major concern in many cropping systems in semiarid and arid areas. Distributed in-field sensor-based irrigation systemsoffer a potential solution to support site-specific irrigation management that allows producers to maximize their productivity while saving water. This paper describes details of the design and instrumentation of variable rate irrigation, a wireless... View full abstract»

• ### Free-space measurement of complex permittivity and complex permeability of magnetic materials at microwave frequencies

Publication Year: 1990, Page(s):387 - 394
Cited by:  Papers (342)  |  Patents (3)
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A free-space measurement system operating in the 8.2-40-GHz frequency range is used to measure the reflection and transmission coefficients, S11 and S21, of planar samples. The complex electric permittivity and the magnetic permeability are calculated from the measured values of S11 and S21. The measurement system cons... View full abstract»

• ### Prognostics Methods for Battery Health Monitoring Using a Bayesian Framework

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):291 - 296
Cited by:  Papers (221)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper explores how the remaining useful life (RUL) can be assessed for complex systems whose internal state variables are either inaccessible to sensors or hard to measure under operational conditions. Consequently, inference and estimation techniques need to be applied on indirect measurements, anticipated operational conditions, and historical data for which a Bayesian statistical approach ... View full abstract»

• ### Improving the Accuracy of Human Body Orientation Estimation With Wearable IMU Sensors

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):535 - 542
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Accurately estimating the orientation of different human body segments using low cost inertial sensors is a key component in various activity-related and healthcare-related applications. Typically, the signals from a gyroscope and an accelerometer are fused inside a Kalman filter to determine the orientation. However, the accelerometer measurements are influenced by the linear accelerations of the... View full abstract»

• ### Radar Sensor Signal Acquisition and Multidimensional FFT Processing for Surveillance Applications in Transport Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):604 - 615
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The design and test of a radio detection and ranging (Radar) sensor signal acquisition and processing platform is presented in this paper. The Radar sensor operates in real time and is suited for surveillance applications in transport systems. It includes a front-end with a continuous-wave frequency-modulated transceiver operating in X-band, with a single transmitter and multiple receivers, and a ... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis of Three IoT-Based Wireless Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2056 - 2064
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The recent changes in climate have increased the importance of environmental monitoring, making it a topical and highly active research area. This field is based on remote sensing and on wireless sensor networks for gathering data about the environment. Recent advancements, such as the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), the cloud computing model, and cyber-physical systems, provide support fo... View full abstract»

• ### Measurement of spectral characteristics of semiconductor laser diodes-effect of injected current modulation and optical feedback

Publication Year: 1993, Page(s):304 - 310
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Precision optical spectral lineshape measurements on semiconductor lasers using Michelson and Fabry-Perot interferometers are presented. Measurements ranging from 30 MHz up to 100 GHz give the spectral behavior above and below threshold even for very small emitted optical powers. Variations of the linewidth above and below threshold as a function of injected current are measured and used to evalua... View full abstract»

• ### Design of an RFID-Based Battery-Free Programmable Sensing Platform

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):2608 - 2615
Cited by:  Papers (273)  |  Patents (14)
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This paper presents the wireless identification and sensing platform (WISP), which is a programmable battery-free sensing and computational platform designed to explore sensor-enhanced radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. WISP uses a 16-bit ultralow-power microcontroller to perform sensing and computation while exclusively operating from harvested RF energy. Sensors that have succes... View full abstract»

• ### PMU-Based Distribution System State Estimation with Adaptive Accuracy Exploiting Local Decision Metrics and IoT Paradigm

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):704 - 714
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A novel adaptive distribution system state estimation (DSSE) solution is presented and discussed, which relies on distributed decision points and exploits the Cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. Up to now, DSSE procedures have been using fixed settings regardless of the actual values of measurement accuracy, which is instead affected by the actual operating conditions of the network. Th... View full abstract»

• ### Digital Image Watermarking Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):3060 - 3063
Cited by:  Papers (146)
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The main objective of developing an image-watermarking technique is to satisfy both imperceptibility and robustness requirements. To achieve this objective, a hybrid image-watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed in this paper. In our approach, the watermark is not embedded directly on the wavelet coefficients but rather than ... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time RFID Indoor Positioning System Based on Kalman-Filter Drift Removal and Heron-Bilateration Location Estimation

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):728 - 739
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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This paper proposes Kalman-filter drift removal (DR) and Heron-bilateration location estimation (LE) to significantly reduce the received signal strength index (RSSI) drift, localization error, computational complexity, and deployment cost of conventional radio frequency identification (RFID) indoor positioning systems without any sacrifice of localization granularity and accuracy. By means of onl... View full abstract»

• ### An Efficient and Accurate Solution for Distribution System State Estimation with Multiarea Architecture

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):910 - 919
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Distribution system state estimation (DSSE) is an essential tool for the management and control of future distribution networks. Distribution grids are usually characterized by a very large number of nodes and different voltage levels. Moreover, different portions of the system can be operated by different distribution system operators. In this context, multiarea approaches are key tools to effici... View full abstract»

• ### A free-space method for measurement of dielectric constants and loss tangents at microwave frequencies

Publication Year: 1989, Page(s):789 - 793
Cited by:  Papers (282)  |  Patents (2)
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For measurements of dielectric properties of planar slabs of ceramic and composite materials, the authors have developed a free-space measurement system in the frequency range of 14.5-17.5 GHz. The key components of the measurement system are a pair of spot-focusing horn lens antennas, a network analyzer, and a computer. Because of the far-field focusing ability of horn lens antennas, the free-spa... View full abstract»

• ### Self-Balancing Signal Conditioning Circuit for a Novel Noncontact Inductive Displacement Sensor

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):985 - 991
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A noncontact inductive type displacement sensor is presented here. The sensor is realized with an inductive voltage divider possessing a floating wiper operated by a self-balancing feedback type signal conditioning circuit. The output of the self-balancing signal conditioning circuit is: linear to the displacement of the floating wiper and independent of the coupling capacitance that arises due to... View full abstract»

• ### ECG analysis: a new approach in human identification

Publication Year: 2001, Page(s):808 - 812
Cited by:  Papers (329)  |  Patents (11)
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A new approach in human identification is investigated. For this purpose, a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) recorded during rest is used. Selected features extracted from the ECG are used to identify a person in a predetermined group. Multivariate analysis is used for the identification task. Experiments show that it is possible to identify a person by features extracted from one lead onl... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Approach for Motion Artifact Reduction in PPG Signals Based on AS-LMS Adaptive Filter

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1445 - 1457
Cited by:  Papers (57)
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The performance of pulse oximeters is highly influenced by motion artifacts (MAs) in photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals. In this paper, we propose a simple and efficient approach based on adaptive step-size least mean squares (AS-LMS) adaptive filter for reducing MA in corrupted PPG signals. The presented method is an extension to our prior work on efficient use of adaptive filters for reduction ... View full abstract»

• ### Comparing Ubisense, BeSpoon, and DecaWave UWB Location Systems: Indoor Performance Analysis

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2106 - 2117
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Most ultrawideband (UWB) location systems already proposed for position estimation have only been individually evaluated for particular scenarios. For a fair performance comparison among different solutions, a common evaluation scenario would be desirable. In this paper, we compare three commercially available UWB systems (Ubisense, BeSpoon, and DecaWave) under the same experimental conditions, in... View full abstract»

• ### A Spinning Current Circuit for Hall Measurements Down to the Nanotesla Range

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):637 - 650
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The spinning current modulation technique is shown not only to be able to suppress all the offset and low-frequency noise contributions from the Hall sensing element and its preamplifier, but it may also suppress the parasitic signals, such as pickup noise and thermal electromotive force contributed by the interconnects in a hybrid Hall plate/driving electronics system with remote Hall sensor head... View full abstract»

• ### A Submillimeter-Wave Near-Field Measurement Setup for On-Wafer Pattern and Gain Characterization of Antennas and Arrays

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):802 - 811
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This paper presents a measurement system for on-wafer characterization of antennas operating in the high millimeter wave (MMW) to sub-MMW bands. Most existing antenna measurement systems at these frequencies require complex custom-made structures, which are costly and hard to set up. To address this problem, a simple and yet effective near-field antenna measurement setup consisting of a vector net... View full abstract»

• ### A Magnetic Ranging-Aided Dead-Reckoning Positioning System for Pedestrian Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):953 - 963
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This paper investigates the applicability of a developed Magnetic Positioning System (MPS) as a support for a dead-reckoning inertial navigation system (DR-INS) for pedestrian applications. The integrated system combines the complementary properties of the separate systems, operating over long periods of time and in cluttered indoor areas with partial nonline-of-sight conditions. The obtained resu... View full abstract»

• ### PALDi: Online Load Disaggregation via Particle Filtering

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):467 - 477
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Smart metering and fine-grained energy data are one of the major enablers for future smart grid and improved energy efficiency in smart homes. Using the information provided by smart meter power draw, valuable information can be extracted as disaggregated appliance power draws by non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM). NILM allows to identify appliances according to their power characteristics in th... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Calibration Method of Magnetic Compass Based on Ellipsoid Fitting

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):2053 - 2061
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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Magnetic compass is widely used to indicate the heading of vehicle by measuring the Earth's magnetic field. However, it suffers from local magnetic interferences; thus, the calibration of the magnetic compass is very essential before it is used. The traditional calibration methods require reference information and special requirements such as keeping the magnetic compass level during calibration, ... View full abstract»

• ### A Simplified Quaternion-Based Algorithm for Orientation Estimation From Earth Gravity and Magnetic Field Measurements

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):638 - 650
Cited by:  Papers (105)  |  Patents (7)
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Orientation of a static or slow-moving rigid body can be determined from the measured gravity and local magnetic field vectors. Some formulation of the QUaternion ESTimator (QUEST) algorithm is commonly used to solve this problem. Triads of accelerometers and magnetometers are used to measure gravity and local magnetic field vectors in sensor coordinates. In the QUEST algorithm, local magnetic fie... View full abstract»

• ### State-of-the-Art Predictive Maintenance Techniques*

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):3480 - 3492
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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This paper discusses the limitations of time-based equipment maintenance methods and the advantages of predictive or online maintenance techniques in identifying the onset of equipment failure. The three major predictive maintenance techniques, defined in terms of their source of data, are described as follows: 1) the existing sensor-based technique; 2) the test-sensor-based technique (including w... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Performance Prediction of Space Vector-Based PMU Algorithms

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):394 - 404
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Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are expected to be the basis of modern power networks monitoring systems. They are conceived to allow measuring the phasor, frequency, and rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) of electrical signals in a synchronized way and with unprecedented accuracy. PMUs are intended to apply to three-phase systems and to track signal parameters evolution during network dynamics. ... View full abstract»

• ### Magnetic Field Analysis for 3-D Positioning Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):935 - 943
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This paper proposes an analysis of the quasistationary magnetic field generated by coils and its applicability to 3-D short-range positioning scenarios. Starting from a theoretical background, an approximation of the induced voltage in a sensor coil is developed and analyzed. Then, the design and performance of a short-range magnetic field-based positioning system is described. The system is reali... View full abstract»

• ### Preserving Synchronization Accuracy From the Plug-in of NonSynchronized Nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1058 - 1066
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The synchronization accuracy of the nodes of a wireless sensor network (WSN) can be perturbed by the plug-in of nonsynchronized nodes (NSNs). In the case of peer-to-peer synchronization algorithms, the reference time of the WSN is established on the basis of the clock time of all nodes. Therefore, each NSN changes the reference time to synchronize all nodes with the new reference time interval nee... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Autonomous Initial Alignment Method for Strapdown Inertial Navigation System

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1 - 9
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In-motion alignment of strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS) without any geodetic-frame observations is one of the toughest challenges for autonomous vehicles. Considering the characteristics of SINS, this paper presents a dual-model-based in-motion alignment method for the odometer-aided SINS. Two inertial navigation calculation loops are established for an inertial measurement unit (IMU),... View full abstract»

• ### Keysight 3458A Noise Performance in DCV Sampling Mode

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1089 - 1094
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This paper describes an evaluation of the Keysight 3458A digital multimeter (DMM) noise performance. A DMM noise model is given in closed form for all ranges and integrating analog-to-digital converter (IADC) aperture times. When the DMM is used for sampling, different sources of noise contribute to the total noise of the sampled signal. Their combined effect was measured using both short-circuite... View full abstract»

• ### Compressed Sensing: A Simple Deterministic Measurement Matrix and a Fast Recovery Algorithm

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):3405 - 3413
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Compressed sensing (CS) is a technique that is suitable for compressing and recovering signals having sparse representations in certain bases. CS has been widely used to optimize the measurement process of bandwidth and power constrained systems like wireless body sensor network. The central issues with CS are the construction of measurement matrix and the development of recovery algorithm. In thi... View full abstract»

• ### Choosing Bootstrap Method for the Estimation of the Uncertainty of Traffic Noise Measurements

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):869 - 878
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The environmental acoustic noise is considered as a big risk for today's population health. Consequently, the regulations in many countries commit themselves to control the exposition of people, imposing limits to the noise level. In the comparison between the measured value and the threshold, the uncertainty of the measured value has to be taken into account. In this paper, a procedure for the ev... View full abstract»

• ### Matching Synchrosqueezing Wavelet Transform and Application to Aeroengine Vibration Monitoring

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):360 - 372
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper presents a new time-frequency (TF) analysis method called matching synchrosqueezing wavelet transform (MSWT) to signals with fast varying instantaneous frequency (IF). The original synchrosqueezing wavelet transform (SWT) can effectively improve the readability of TF representation (TFR) of signals with slowly varying IF. However, SWT still suffers from TF blurs for signals with fast va... View full abstract»

• ### Generalized instantaneous reactive power theory for three-phase power systems

Publication Year: 1996, Page(s):293 - 297
Cited by:  Papers (388)  |  Patents (5)
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A generalized theory of instantaneous reactive power for three-phase power systems is proposed in this paper. This theory gives a generalized definition of instantaneous reactive power, which is valid for sinusoidal or nonsinusoidal, balanced or unbalanced, three-phase power systems with or without zero-sequence currents and/or voltages. The properties and physical meanings of the newly defined in... View full abstract»

• ### Real-Time Hand Gesture Detection and Recognition Using Bag-of-Features and Support Vector Machine Techniques

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):3592 - 3607
Cited by:  Papers (114)
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This paper presents a novel and real-time system for interaction with an application or video game via hand gestures. Our system includes detecting and tracking bare hand in cluttered background using skin detection and hand posture contour comparison algorithm after face subtraction, recognizing hand gestures via bag-of-features and multiclass support vector machine (SVM) and building a grammar t... View full abstract»

• ### EMD-Based Signal Filtering

Publication Year: 2007, Page(s):2196 - 2202
Cited by:  Papers (156)
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In this paper, a signal-filtering method based on empirical mode decomposition is proposed. The filtering method is a fully data-driven approach. A noisy signal is adaptively decomposed into intrinsic oscillatory components called intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by means of an algorithm referred to as a sifting process. The basic principle of the method is to make use of partial reconstructions of... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Modular Positive-Sequence Synchrophasor Estimation Algorithm for PMUs

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1164 - 1175
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A novel modular positive-sequence estimation algorithm for phasor measurement units (PMUs) is described in this paper with a focus on the restrictions imposed by the IEEE C37.118.1–2011 standard. The first stage consists in a three-phase demodulator which allows us to separate the positive-sequence from the negative-sequence signal in the frequency domain and to eliminate the zero-sequence ... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

Papers are sought that address innovative solutions to the development and use of electrical and electronic instruments and equipment to measure, monitor and/or record physical phenomena for the purpose of advancing measurement science, methods, functionality and applications.

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