Sensor Review: Volume 40 Issue 5

Single-chip solution for electronics unit of a smart pressure sensor

Igor S. Nadezhdin, Aleksey G. Goryunov

Differential pressure is an important technological parameter, one urgent task of which is control and measurement. To date, the lion’s share of research in this area has focused…

Delta-sigma modulation microphone sensors employing a resonant tunneling diode with a suspended microstrip resonator

Koichi Maezawa, Tatsuo Ito, Masayuki Mori

This paper aims to propose and demonstrate novel microphone sensors based on the frequency delta-sigma modulation (FDSM) technique, which replaces the conventional delta-sigma…

Highly selective piezoresistive sensor for mercury (Hg2+) ions detection using mercaptosuccinic acid-functionalized microcantilevers with cross-linked pyridinedicarboxylic acid

Dinesh Ramkrushna Rotake, Anand Darji, Nitin S. Kale

This paper aims to report an insightful portable microfluidic system for rapid and selective sensing of Hg²⁺ in the picomolar (pM) concentration using microcantilever-based…

Aircraft positioning using DGNSS technique for GPS and GLONASS data

Kamil Krasuski, Janusz Ćwiklak

The purpose of this paper is to present the problem of implementation of the differential global navigation satellite system (DGNSS) differential technique for aircraft accuracy…

Two-step calibration method for three-axis magnetic sensor error based on particle swarm optimization

Yanxia Liu, Zhikai Hu, JianJun Fang

The three-axis magnetic sensors are mostly calibrated by scalar method such as ellipsoid fitting and so on, but these methods cannot completely determine the 12 parameters of the…

Low-power in-pixel buffer circuit for smart image sensor

Qin Li, Huifeng Zhu, Guyue Huang, Zijie Yu, Fei Qiao, Qi Wei, Xinjun Liu, Huazhong Yang

The smart image sensor (SIS) which integrated with both sensor and smart processor has been widely applied in vision-based intelligent perception. In these applications, the…

Human activity detection using machine learning methods from wearable sensors

Princy Randhawa, Vijay Shanthagiri, Ajay Kumar, Vinod Yadav

The paper aims to develop a novel method for the classification of different physical activities of a human being, using fabric sensors. This method focuses mainly on classifying…

Affective actions recognition in dyadic interactions based on generative and discriminative models

Ning Yang, Zhelong Wang, Hongyu Zhao, Jie Li, Sen Qiu

Dyadic interactions are significant for human life. Most body sensor networks-based research studies focus on daily actions, but few works have been done to recognize affective…

Sensitivity and sensitivity isotropy of an 8/4–4 parallel six-axis force sensor

Chenggang Li, Weishan Song, Yong Song

Six-axis force sensors play an important role in civilian and military fields because of their multifunctionality. In the context of sensor structure design, sensitivity and…