Sensor Review: Volume 33 Issue 4

Sensors for condition monitoring: a review of technologies and applications

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to provide details of the technology and applications of the sensors and instruments used in condition monitoring practices.

Recent developments in MEMS sensors: a review of applications, markets and technologies

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors and their commercialisation and to consider a number of recent…

Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy as an alternative for sensing heavy metal ions: a review

Yap Wing Fen, W. Mahmood Mat Yunus

The purpose of this paper is to review the novel application of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in sensing heavy metal ions and the development of SPR to become an alternative…

Study and analysis on a new optical detection design method for photoelectric detection target

Hanshan Li, Zhiyong Lei

The purpose of this paper is to improve photoelectric detection target (PDT) optical detection performance and detection view, by analyzing its influence factors and putting…

An image analysis method to detect CSD on rocks with adjusted color images

Fevzi Karsli, Mustafa Dihkan

The purpose of this paper is to provide crystal size distribution (CSD) using photogrammetric and image analysis techniques. A new algorithm is proposed to detect CSDs and a…

Real-time position control of intelligent pneumatic actuator (IPA) system using optical encoder and pressure sensor

Ahmad ‘Athif Mohd Faudzi, Khairuddin Osman, Mohd Fua'ad Rahmat, Koichi Suzumori, Nu'man Din Mustafa, Muhammad Asyraf Azman

Intelligent pneumatic actuator (IPA) is a new generation of actuator developed for Research and Development (R&D) purposes in the academic and industrial fields. The purpose of…

Finite element method based absolute pressure sensitivity optimized membrane type double cavity vacuum sealed piezoresistive sensor

Pradeep Kumar Rathore, Pratyush Varshney, Sunil Prasad, B.S. Panwar

The purpose of this paper is to use finite element method for optimizing the membrane type double cavity vacuum sealed structure for the best achievable sensitivity in a…

A novel E-shaped coil for eddy current testing

Deboshree Roy, Balbhadra Kumar Kaushik, Rakesh Chakraborty

Eddy current testing (ECT) is widely used in the non-destructive evaluation of materials in different industries. In this paper, ECT has been used to detect the presence of cracks…

Research on pre-processing of unbalance signal under the limited data acquisition time

Dingding Zhao, Ping Cai, Wei Qi

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to remit or mitigate deterioration resulting from the influence of short data length to existing signal extracting methods.