Sensor Review: Volume 24 Issue 4

Machine vision in automotive manufacturing

The resolution capabilities of cameras, modern pattern recognition algorithms, and the physical capabilities of robots allow for the creation of machine vision solutions in many…

New instrument aims to measure appearance

A new instrument has been designed and built to measure the reflectance of light at continuously variable angles of incidence and reflection. The project aims to improve the…

Optical inspection tools for the automotive industry

This paper deals with two aspects of optical inspection in the automotive industry: machine vision and colour measurement. Machine vision, by smart camera or by personal computer…

Boom time for LIBS technology

This paper describes recent developments in laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and discusses emerging applications. These include military and security uses…

New on‐vehicle performance and emission monitoring system

This paper, describes a low cost, on‐vehicle performance and emission monitoring system, VPEMS, which was developed under the UK government's Faraday Partnership scheme. The…

Measuring the density of dingo teeth with machine vision

Collaboration between a mechatronics engineer and a biologist resulted in an unlikely application of machine vision. To deduce the density of the porous teeth, the volume had to…

Bragg grating temperature sensors: modeling the effect of adhesion of polymeric coatings

Polymeric coatings and packaging are often used to enhance the temperature sensitivity of fiber Bragg grating temperature sensors. The high thermal expansion coefficient of the…

Embedding and characterization of fiber‐optic and thin‐film sensors in metallic structures

It is often important to acquire information such as temperature and strain values from metallic tools and structures in situ. With embedded sensors, structures are capable of…

Optical pyrometry for gas turbine aeroengines

Fundamentally, it is advantageous to operate an aeroengine's thermodynamic cycle at as high a turbine entry temperature as practical for the current metallurgical limits of the…

Automotive Control Systems: For Engine, Driveline and Vehicle

MEMS Mechanical Sensors

Numerical Simulation of Mechatronic Sensors and Actuators

HBM helps enhance safety on space shuttle

Mobile Gas Detector

High fibre

RFID development in Europe will not be hindered by frequency, says standards body

Call for papers

Merlin Systems launches new range of Bluetooth® development and evaluation products for low cost/fast track implementation of wireless technology

Cognex introduces breakthrough industrial code reading software

Liquid level sensor new technology

NI introduces TEDS measurement platform for smart sensors

Adaptive cruise control

Planes, rockets and automobiles for Sequoia Sensors

Air-fuel Ration Control

Carlo Gavazzi opens new production facility in Lithuania

Automotive and aerospace applications

Awards for Excellence

Internet page

Sony reinvents panoramic video camera technology with a 360° solid state single module delivering full-circle undistorted images

New measurement system speaks volumes for sick

Microstructure specialist delivers millions of microcalibration bars

New Palm™ Thermometer probe

Diary

Turbulence Prediction

Fortune Magazine names Cognex Corporation's founders “Heroes of Manufacturing”

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