Sensor Review: Volume 27 Issue 3

Collision avoidance technology: from parking sensors to unmanned aircraft

To examine the sensors and techniques used in preventing the collision of moving vehicles.

Nanometrology: a critical discipline for the twenty‐first century

To illustrate the importance of nanometrology, the discipline of metrology at the nanoscale, and to describe the techniques involved.

Resonating gyroscopes: the next big challenge for MEMS technology

To describe the operation and historical development of MEMS gyroscopes and to consider their prospects in emerging high volume consumer markets.

Level sensing of liquids and solids – a review of the technologies

Examines the wide range of liquid and solid level sensors, their technologies and commercial application.

In‐line quality control of product coding from Cobalt IS

To show how the integration of standard sensors with software has produced a very powerful aid to food‐safety compliant product labelling in the production environment.

Machine vision inspection system for film

Film is an important recording medium in industry. How to ensure film quality is a problem, because the film is produced in a dark room. Aims to focus on this.

Multi‐modality multi‐interface level sensor with segmented capacitance and inductance sensing elements

Crude oil separation is an important process in the oil industry. To make efficient use of the separators, it is important to know their internal behaviour, and to measure the…

3D measurement sensor system for rough terrain mobile robots

The purpose of this paper is to propose a sensor system and its measuring strategy. The proposed system is regarded as a total system of a robot and a sensor. It can make full use…

pH measurement of dirty water sources by ISFET: addressing practical problems

To expose the gate of ion‐sensitive field‐effect transistor (ISFET) to filthy and muddy water, suspended algae, etc. investigate the influence of these conditions on device…

iPOS: a fault‐tolerant and adaptive multi‐sensor positioning architecture with QoS guarantees

To describe the architecture of iPOS (short for iPAQ positioning system), a novel fault‐tolerant and adaptive self‐positioning system with quality‐of‐service (QoS) guarantees for…

3DX-ray Limited @ Medtec 2007

COGNEX inspects ceramic tiles

NI Measurement Studio 8.1 simplifies remote monitoring and control

MTS' liquid-level sensors now used in railroad fuel management systems

ASM introduces new POSIROT® Magnetic 360° Angle Sensor

CSEM leads European research project into plasmonics

Patents

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

Level sensing and position measurement

Sentec's water metering technology gets European recognition

Web sites

American company develops unique glass MEMS technology

Laser sensor helps to guarantee safety of pedestrians at Jaguar Cars

Book review

Blade rotation sensor

Hand Held 2D Imager

Diary

High accuracy high resolution laser sensor for less than £500

Delta develops 35 percent efficiency concentrating solar cell receiver assembly

Three dimensions opens up 1,001 possibilities

RFID still too expensive

Magnetic potential

Come back inorganic electronics – all is forgiven