Sensor Review: Volume 33 Issue 3

Radiation hardening and sensors for radioactive environments

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to describe the effects of radiation on certain classes of sensors and electronic devices and discusses the sensors used in high radiation environments.

Lasers, radar, acoustics and magnetic sensors come to the aid of unmanned vehicles

Richard Bloss

The paper aims to provide a review of how innovations in laser, acoustics, radar, magnetic and other sensor technologies are aiding in making unmanned vehicles more autonomous.

Ukraine nanomaterials conference highlights sensing of molecular and physical variables

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to describe the nanosensor research reported at the “Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties 2012” conference, held in the Ukraine in September 2012.

Wide area registration on camera phones for mobile augmented reality applications

Liya Duan, Tao Guan, Yawei Luo

The authors aim to present a vision based wide area registration method for camera phones based mobile augmented reality applications.

A combined long period fiber grating multi‐parameter sensor

Yage Zhan, Kan Gu, Hua Wu, Jun Luo

The on‐line concentration and temperature measurement of solutions is of great interest as a means of quality production control in many industrial processes, such as in food…

Remedial and adaptive solutions of ISFET non‐ideal behaviour

Vinod Kumar Khanna

This paper aims to focus on the steps necessary to bolster marketability of ISFET‐based sensors, keeping in view the present technological status of ISFET and its limitations.

Spectroscopic profiling of soluble solids content and acidity of intact grape, lime, and star fruit

Ahmad Fairuz Omar

Visible and near infrared spectroscopy have been applied widely in fruits quality assessment especially on the measurement of soluble solids content (SSC) measured in ^oBrix and…

IOT system environmental monitoring using IPSO weight factor estimation

Wen‐Tsai Sung, Chia‐Cheng Hsu

This study aims to analyze the inertial weight factor value in the (PSO) algorithm and propose non‐linear weights with decreasing strategy to implement the improved PSO (IPSO…

Affordable simultaneous hyperspectral imaging

Hamed Hamid Muhammed

The aim of the research project which resulted in this work is to achieve a cost‐effective approach for instantaneous hyperspectral imaging.

Visual navigation system for small unmanned aerial vehicles

Christian Ivancsits, Min‐Fan Ricky Lee

This paper aims to address three major issues in the development of a vision‐based navigation system for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which can be characterized as…