Sensor Review: Volume 41 Issue 4

Development and characterization of enzymatic biosensor based on lipase from porcine pancreas for propylparaben detection

Leila Snani, Saida Zougar, Fatiha Benamia, Ilhem Ghodbane

The purpose of this paper is to study the immobilization of porcine pancreatic lipase (PPL), in an organic matrix by a covalent cross-linking method to sense propylparaben (PP…

Real-time bi-directional people counting using an RGB-D camera

Wahyu Rahmaniar, W.J. Wang, Chi-Wei Ethan Chiu, Noorkholis Luthfil Luthfil Hakim

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new framework and improve a bi-directional people counting technique using an RGB-D camera to obtain accurate results with fast…

A review of previous studies on dam leakage based on distributed optical fiber thermal monitoring technology

Xiao Fang, Yajie Zeng, Feng Xiong, Jiang Chen, Fei Cheng

Seepage of the dam is an important safety problem, which may cause internal erosion of the structure. In the field of seepage monitoring in civil engineering, the distributed…

An adaptive scheme for degradation suppression in Lidar based SLAM

Yi Zhang Rui Huang

With the booming development of computer, optical and sensing technologies and cybernetics, the technical research in unmanned vehicle has been advanced to a new era. This trend…

Improving the performance of hierarchical wireless sensor networks using the metaheuristic algorithms: efficient cluster head selection

Farzad Kiani, Amir Seyyedabbasi, Sajjad Nematzadeh

Efficient resource utilization in wireless sensor networks is an important issue. Clustering structure has an important effect on the efficient use of energy, which is one of the…

Event-based tracking of human hands

Laura Duarte, Mohammad Safeea, Pedro Neto

This paper proposes a novel method for human hands tracking using data from an event camera. The event camera detects changes in brightness, measuring motion, with low latency, no…

Study on the sensitivity enhancement of fiber SPR sensor by gold nanorods

Rui Wang, Chunlan Liu, Yong Wei, Yudong Su

This paper aims to study the sensitivity enhancement effect of the gold nanorod on fiber surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor. It proposes modeling the sensing effects of fiber…

Experimental study on blast damage of RC T-beam bridge

Sheng Peng, Lu-jun Cai, Tian-hua Jiang, Xu Kai

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the explosive performance and explosion damage mechanism of T-beam bridge structure.

Nanostructured WO3 based gas sensors: a short review

Srinivas Rao Sriram, Saidireddy Parne, Venkata Satya Chidambara Swamy Vaddadi, Damodar Edla, Nagaraju P., Raji Reddy Avala, Vijayakumar Yelsani, Uday Bhasker Sontu

This paper aims to focus on the basic principle of WO₃ gas sensors to achieve high gas-sensing performance with good stability and repeatability. Metal oxide-based gas sensors are…

Investigation the influence of miniaturized RFID tag sensor on coupling effect

Peng Wang, Lihong Dong, Haidou Wang, Guolu Li, Yuelan Di, Xiangyu Xie, Dong Huang

The skin and skeleton of aircraft are connected by adhesives or rivets to bear and transfer aerodynamic load. It is easy for crack and fracture damage to occur under the action of…