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Sensors, Volume 15, Issue 6

June 2015 - 135 articles

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Articles (135)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,066 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2015

A kind of multi feature points matching algorithm fusing local geometric constraints is proposed for the purpose of quickly loop closing detection in RGB-D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). The visual feature is encoded with BRAND (binary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
11,217 Views
18 Pages

Radar Sensing for Intelligent Vehicles in Urban Environments

  • Giulio Reina,
  • David Johnson and
  • James Underwood

19 June 2015

Radar overcomes the shortcomings of laser, stereovision, and sonar because it can operate successfully in dusty, foggy, blizzard-blinding, and poorly lit scenarios. This paper presents a novel method for ground and obstacle segmentation based on rada...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,560 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2015

Despite the remarkable improvement of hardware and network technology, the inevitable delay from a user’s command action to a system response is still one of the most crucial influence factors in user experiences (UXs). Especially for a web video ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,501 Views
26 Pages

19 June 2015

This paper examines the performance of several precise point positioning (PPP) models, which combine dual-frequency GPS/Galileo observations in the un-differenced and between-satellite single-difference (BSSD) modes. These include the traditional un-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
16,472 Views
18 Pages

19 June 2015

A new class of tri-axial miniature magnetometer consisting of a planar fluxgate structure with an orthogonal ferromagnetic fluxguide centrally situated over the magnetic cores is presented. The magnetic sensor possesses a cruciform ferromagnetic core...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,122 Views
27 Pages

Managing Emergency Situations in the Smart City: The Smart Signal

  • Ángel Asensio,
  • Teresa Blanco,
  • Rubén Blasco,
  • Álvaro Marco and
  • Roberto Casas

18 June 2015

In a city there are numerous items, many of them unnoticed but essential; this is the case of the signals. Signals are considered objects with reduced technological interest, but in this paper we prove that making them smart and integrating in the Io...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,394 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2015

The forward looking radar imaging task is a practical and challenging problem for adverse weather aircraft landing industry. Deconvolution method can realize the forward looking imaging but it often leads to the noise amplification in the radar image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,564 Views
20 Pages

Submersible Spectrofluorometer for Real-Time Sensing of Water Quality

  • Adriana Puiu,
  • Luca Fiorani,
  • Ivano Menicucci,
  • Marco Pistilli and
  • Antonia Lai

18 June 2015

In this work, we present a newly developed submersible spectrofluorometer (patent pending) applied to real-time sensing of water quality, suitable for monitoring some important indicators of the ecological status of natural waters such as chlorophyll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,060 Views
23 Pages

Inertial Sensor-Based Touch and Shake Metaphor for Expressive Control of 3D Virtual Avatars

  • Shashidhar Patil,
  • Harinadha Reddy Chintalapalli,
  • Dubeom Kim and
  • Youngho Chai

18 June 2015

In this paper, we present an inertial sensor-based touch and shake metaphor for expressive control of a 3D virtual avatar in a virtual environment. An intuitive six degrees-of-freedom wireless inertial motion sensor is used as a gesture and motion c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
7,072 Views
29 Pages

DEADS: Depth and Energy Aware Dominating Set Based Algorithm for Cooperative Routing along with Sink Mobility in Underwater WSNs

  • Amara Umar,
  • Nadeem Javaid,
  • Ashfaq Ahmad,
  • Zahoor Ali Khan,
  • Umar Qasim,
  • Nabil Alrajeh and
  • Amir Hayat

18 June 2015

Performance enhancement of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) in terms of throughput maximization, energy conservation and Bit Error Rate (BER) minimization is a potential research area. However, limited available bandwidth, high propagation...

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