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Sensors, Volume 19, Issue 2

January-2 2019 - 220 articles

Cover Story: Thrusters play an important role in the motion control of amphibious spherical robots. A thrust model for a new water-jet thruster based on hydrodynamic analyses is proposed as a way of achieving accurate motion control. The hydrodynamic characteristics of the new thruster were numerically analyzed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) commercial software CFX. The moving reference frame (MRF) technique was utilized to simulate propeller rotation. The basic framework of the thrust model was built according to hydromechanics theory. Parameters in the basic framework were identified through the results of the hydrodynamic simulation. Compared with other related experimental results, the maximum error of the simulation results was only 7%, which indicates that the thrust model is precise enough to be utilized in the motion control of amphibious spherical robots. View this paper.
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Articles (220)

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,535 Views
18 Pages

A Regulatory View on Smart City Services

  • Mario Weber and
  • Ivana Podnar Žarko

21 January 2019

Even though various commercial Smart City solutions are widely available on the market, we are still witnessing their rather limited adoption, where solutions are typically bound to specific verticals or remain in pilot stages. In this paper we argue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,465 Views
13 Pages

Ambulatory Evaluation of ECG Signals Obtained Using Washable Textile-Based Electrodes Made with Chemically Modified PEDOT:PSS

  • Amale Ankhili,
  • Xuyuan Tao,
  • Cédric Cochrane,
  • Vladan Koncar,
  • David Coulon and
  • Jean-Michel Tarlet

21 January 2019

A development of washable PEDOT:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate) polyamide textile-based electrodes is an interesting alternative to the traditional Ag/AgCl disposable electrodes, usually used in clinical practice, helping...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,154 Views
17 Pages

Robust Kalman Filter Aided GEO/IGSO/GPS Raw-PPP/INS Tight Integration

  • Zhouzheng Gao,
  • You Li,
  • Yuan Zhuang,
  • Honglei Yang,
  • Yuanjin Pan and
  • Hongping Zhang

21 January 2019

Reliable and continuous navigation solutions are essential for high-accuracy location-based services. Currently, the real-time kinematic (RTK) based Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely utilized to satisfy such requirements. However, RTK’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,424 Views
14 Pages

Combining Non-Uniform Time Slice and Finite Difference to Improve 3D Ghost Imaging

  • Fanghua Zhang,
  • Jie Cao,
  • Qun Hao,
  • Kaiyu Zhang,
  • Yang Cheng,
  • Yingbo Wang and
  • Yongchao Feng

21 January 2019

Three-dimensional ghost imaging (3DGI) using a detector is widely used in many applications. The performance of 3DGI based on a uniform time slice is difficult to improve because obtaining an accurate time-slice position remains a challenge. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
7,216 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2019

Postharvest kiwifruit continues to ripen for a period until it reaches the optimal “eating ripe” stage. Without damaging the fruit, it is very difficult to identify the ripeness of postharvest kiwifruit by conventional means. In this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
10,433 Views
20 Pages

Indoor Positioning System Based on Chest-Mounted IMU

  • Chuanhua Lu,
  • Hideaki Uchiyama,
  • Diego Thomas,
  • Atsushi Shimada and
  • Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

21 January 2019

Demand for indoor navigation systems has been rapidly increasing with regard to location-based services. As a cost-effective choice, inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) systems have been developed for years because t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,579 Views
14 Pages

Low-Temperature Storage Improves the Over-Time Stability of Implantable Glucose and Lactate Biosensors

  • Giulia Puggioni,
  • Giammario Calia,
  • Paola Arrigo,
  • Andrea Bacciu,
  • Gianfranco Bazzu,
  • Rossana Migheli,
  • Silvia Fancello,
  • Pier Andrea Serra and
  • Gaia Rocchitta

21 January 2019

Molecular biomarkers are very important in biology, biotechnology and even in medicine, but it is quite hard to convert biology-related signals into measurable data. For this purpose, amperometric biosensors have proven to be particularly suitable be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,389 Views
22 Pages

Appearance-Based Salient Regions Detection Using Side-Specific Dictionaries

  • Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed,
  • Qi Chun,
  • Gulnaz Ahmed,
  • Adil Murtaza,
  • Muhammad Rizwan Asif and
  • Muhammad Zeeshan Fareed

21 January 2019

Image saliency detection is a very helpful step in many computer vision-based smart systems to reduce the computational complexity by only focusing on the salient parts of the image. Currently, the image saliency is detected through representation-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,109 Views
15 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Features in Action Recognition Using 3D Skeletal Joints

  • Mihai Trăscău,
  • Mihai Nan and
  • Adina Magda Florea

21 January 2019

Robust action recognition methods lie at the cornerstone of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems employing optical devices. Using 3D skeleton joints extracted from depth images taken with time-of-flight (ToF) cameras has been a popular solution for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
8,183 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2019

Indoor positioning using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons has attracted considerable attention after the release of the BLE protocol. A number of efforts have been exerted to improve the performance of BLE-based indoor positioning. However, few stu...

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