Advanced Instrument Engineering: Measurement, Calibration, and Design

Advanced Instrument Engineering: Measurement, Calibration, and Design

Aimé Lay-Ekuakille

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 349

ISBN13: 9781466641655|ISBN10: 1466641657|EISBN13: 9781466641662

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4165-5

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Measurement technologies and instrumentation have a multidisciplinary impact in the field of applied sciences. These engineering technologies are necessary in processing information required for renewable energy, biotechnology, power quality, and nanotechnology.

Advanced Instrument Engineering: Measurement, Calibration, and Design presents theoretical and practical aspects on the activities concerning measurement technologies and instrumentation. This wide range of new ideas in the field of measurements and instrumentation is useful to researchers, scientists, practitioners, and technicians for their area of expertise.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Voltage Stability Analysis of a Distributed Network Incorporating Wind Power Resource (pages 1-11)

Denis Juma, Bessie Monchusi, Josiah Munda, Adisa Jimoh

This paper investigates the impacts of a wind farm connected at Harterbeespoort substation in South Africa on voltage stability of the power network. The site wind speed was determined and analyzed for viability. A comparison is made...

Chapter 2

Dynamic Characteristics of Tiny Ultrasonic Linear Actuators (pages 12-23)

Hermes Hernández, Ramiro Velázquez

Tiny ultrasonic linear actuators (TULAs) are used in many industrial applications and a full characterization of their dynamic behavior is needed. This paper presents a detailed theoretical-experimental study of TULAs. The general...

Chapter 3

Internet-Enabled Calibration: A Future of Calibration? (pages 24-38)

Hrvoje Hegeduš, Marko Jurcevic, Roman Malaric

Calibration of measuring instruments provides the confidence in measurements. It is the obligation of every laboratory to have its measuring equipment calibrated in regular intervals. This obligation means that the laboratory must...

Chapter 4

A Data Acquisition System to Detect Bubble Collapse Time and Pressure Losses in Water Cavitation (pages 39-56)

M. G. De Giorgi, A. Ficarella, M. Tarantino

This paper presents a data acquisition system oriented to detect bubble collapse time and pressure losses in water cavitation in an internal orifice. An experimental campaign on a cavitating flow of water through an orifice has been...

Chapter 5

New Approaches of Nanocomposite Materials for Electromagnetic Sensors and Robotics (pages 57-73)

Alessandro Massaro, Fabrizio Spano, Diego Caratelli, Alexander Yarovoy, Roberto Cingolani, Athanassia Athanassiou

In this paper, the authors define new classes of devices based on nanocomposite materials (NMs). The work introduces approaches about the design and the experimental characterization of these materials. A wide range of applications...

Chapter 6

A Real Time Attachment Free, Psycho Physiological Stress and Heart Rate Measurement System (pages 74-86)

Anthony Psaltis, Constantinos Mourlas

The challenges in the development of a system performing real time detection of physiological parameters are fundamentally aversive because of the incommodities caused by the wires and sensing attachments onto the user, making the...

Chapter 7

Exploitation of the EDF Scheduling in the Wireless Sensors Networks (pages 87-100)

Rym Chéour, Sébastien Bilavarn, Mohamed Abid

Today, due to recent advances in wireless technology, new products using wireless sensor networks are being employed. However, despite the excitement surrounding wireless sensor networks, it is not immune to the problem of energy...

Chapter 8

Software Tool for Assessment of Complexity and Variability in Physiological Signals of Respiration (pages 101-126)

Ireneusz Jablonski, Kamil Subzda, Janusz Mroczka

In this paper, the authors examine software implementation and the initial preprocessing of data and tools during the assessment of the complexity and variability of long physiological time-series. The algorithms presented advance a...

Chapter 9

Thorax: Physiological Monitoring and Modeling for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Edema (pages 127-133)

Shabana Urooj, M. Khan, A. Q. Ansari

In this paper, the authors prove that variations in thoracic volumes are greatly responsive to the act of breathing (i.e., inspiration and expiration). These variations may be adopted for diagnosing various respiration related...

Chapter 10

An Efficient Agent Based Rumor Propagation for Wireless Sensor Networks (pages 134-143)

Leila Kheroua, Samira Moussaoui, Louiza Mansour

In the context of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in this paper, the authors present a new agent based routing protocol named Fast Rumor Agents protocol (FRA). The FRA protocol optimizes the agent (respectively the query)...

Chapter 11

Measurements and Characterization of Photovoltaic Modules for Tolerance Verification (pages 144-152)

C. Calò, A. Lay-Ekuakille, P. Vergallo, C. Chiffi, A. Trotta, A. Fasanella, A.M. Fasanella

One of the most important aspects of photovoltaic modules is reliability for future uses, that is, a certain module will last certain number of years in use (generally 30 or 35 years). Reliability yields from excellent qualification...

Chapter 12

Design, Measurements and Characterization of Smart Electronic Board for PV Streetlight based on LED and High Intensity Discharge Lamps (pages 153-165)

Paolo Visconti, Daniele Romanello, Giovanni Zizzari, Vito Ventura, Giorgio Cavalera

This work presents an electronic board for driving and control of High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps. The proposed electronic board is able to drive HID or LED lamps by means of a reconfigurable...

Chapter 13

An Observation on Least Action Principle in Classical Mechanics Oriented on the Evaluation of Relativistic Error Concerning the Measurements of Light Propagating in a Liquid (pages 166-176)

Alessandro Massaro, Piero Adriano Massaro

The authors prove that the standard least action principle implies a more general form of the same principle by which they can state generalized motion equation including the classical Euler equation as a particular case. This form...

Chapter 14

Impedance-Based Wireless Sensor Network for Metal-Protective Coating Evaluation (pages 177-192)

Ronghua Yu, Qixin Zhou, Yechun Wang, Chao You

Researchers have been focused on the influences of flowing fluid on the corrosion of bare metals, but there is little emphasis on the degradation of metal-protective coating. Evaluating the metal-protective coating usually uses the...

Chapter 15

Measurement Uncertainty in Decision-Making: How to Take Reliable Decisions under Uncertainty (pages 193-207)

Claudio De Capua, Rosario Morello, Rosario Carbone

In this paper, the authors examine a common issue concerning the influence of measurement uncertainty on decisions. In fact, in some practical applications, it can be necessary to put in comparison measurement data with thresholds...

Chapter 16

AC Magnetic Measurements on Superconductors: Design of a Device for Magneto-Thermal Measurements (pages 208-222)

Philippe Laurent, Jean-François Fagnard, Philippe Vanderbemden

This work describes the design and realisation of an apparatus to measure simultaneously the AC magnetic properties and the temperature distribution on the top surface of bulk superconducting samples (up to 32 mm in diameter) in...

Chapter 17

Seismocardiogram and Ballistocardiogram Sensing (pages 223-246)

Octavian Postolache, Pedro Girão, Gabriela Postolache

The paper describes the latest development in seismocardiography and ballistocardiography, including sensors with or without mechanical contact with the body, for cardiac functions monitoring in common daily activity. The authors...

Chapter 18

Design, Development and Testing of a Semi Cylindrical Capacitive Array Type Liquid Interface Level Sensor (pages 247-256)

Sagarika Pal, Ramtanu Mukherjee, Sharmi Ganguly

In this study, a semi cylindrical capacitive array type liquid interface level measuring sensor is described. The sensor consists of a continuous large semi cylindrical thin metallic plate acting as a common plate of the capacitor...

Chapter 19

An Architectural and Evaluative Review of Implicit and Explicit SIP Overload Handling (pages 257-273)

Marco Happenhofer, Joachim Fabini, Christoph Egger, Michael Hirschbichler

Last year’s trend to migrate circuit-switched voice networks to packet switched Internet Protocol (IP) based networks has favored wide deployment of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based systems and networks. As a reaction to...

Chapter 20

Impact of Human Factors on Measurement Errors (pages 274-291)

Vinodkumar Jacob, M. Bhasi, R. Gopikakumari

Measurement is the act or the result, of a quantitative comparison between a given quantity and a quantity of the same kind chosen as a unit. It is for observing and testing scientific and technological investigations and generally...

Chapter 21

Determination of Uncertainty in Gross Calorific Value of Coal Using Bomb Calorimeter (pages 292-299)

N.K. Mandavgade, S.B. Jaju, R.R. Lakhe

A bomb calorimeter is an apparatus used for measuring the performance of coal in term of heat of combustion. Recent awareness has been created regarding uncertainty of measurement, due to mainly two reasons. Laboratory accreditation...

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