Sensor Review: Volume 12 Issue 4

ON‐LINE COLOUR MEASUREMENT

Gordon Coventry

Colour is not a property which is a physical part of things we see, it is simply the effect of visible light waves bouncing off or passing through the numerous objects in its…

REFLECTIONS ON LIGHT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT

Drago Torkar, Rudi Murn, Dušan Peček

Despite a relatively long tradition and outstanding progress in CCD technology during the last few years, computer vision applications have not become as significant as was…

UK SENSORS SCENE: ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING FIRMS

Peter McGeehin

Four well‐established, successful and expanding UK sensors firms, and six small but ambitious ones (the latter all recipients of DTI SMART Awards), feature in case studies…

AUSTRALIAN SMART HIGHWAYS

Simmy Grewal

Cheryl Pellerin's smart highways feature in Sensor Review, Vol. 12 No. 1, made interesting reading. In Australia, a new system, which monitors heavy vehicles, was recently…

SENSOR‐GUIDED ASSEMBLY

Uwe Schweigert

Sensors considerably increase the new applications of industrial robots. Assembly utilizations exist in the fields of part loading, the supervision of the gripping and part mating…

OPTICAL SENSORS MONITOR METALLIZED FILM PRODUCTION

Frank Casey, Anthony Broomfield

Over the past ten years a non‐contact resistance monitor has been developed for measuring the deposit above each evaporator on resistance‐heated evaporative metallizers. This is…