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Sensors, Volume 19, Issue 4

2019 February-2 - 232 articles

Cover Story: The worldwide consumption of coffee exceeds 11 billion tons/year, and coffee grounds end up as landfill. However, the unique structural properties of its surface make it interesting for the adsorption of gaseous species. Here, coffee grounds were used as a cheap source for biochar carbon. Coffee ground biochar (CGB) was investigated as a sensing material for humidity sensors, and it was characterized by laser granulometry, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, field emission-scanning electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and N2 adsorption to understand its structural and surface properties. Humidity sensors were screen-printed onto alumina substrates. The CGB sensor response SR (%) was equal to 51% under 98% of relative humidity (RH), and the impedance started to decrease above 20% of RH. View this paper.
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Articles (232)

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,621 Views
13 Pages

Classification of Lifting Techniques for Application of A Robotic Hip Exoskeleton

  • Baojun Chen,
  • Francesco Lanotte,
  • Lorenzo Grazi,
  • Nicola Vitiello and
  • Simona Crea

25 February 2019

The number of exoskeletons providing load-lifting assistance has significantly increased over the last decade. In this field, to take full advantage of active exoskeletons and provide appropriate assistance to users, it is essential to develop contro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,877 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2019

A method using electronic nose to discriminate 10 different species of dendrobium, which is a kind of precious herb with medicinal application, was developed with high efficiency and low cost. A framework named aggregated conformal prediction was app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,571 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2019

In the last few decades, urban areas across the world have experienced rapid growth in transportation technology with a subsequent increase in transport-related challenges. These challenges have increased our need to employ technology for creating mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,420 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2019

Wireless Sensors Networks (WSNs) are currently receiving much research interest due to their wide-ranging use is a number of different fields. In the current study, a system based on a WSN is proposed that can monitor indoor air pollution in several...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,447 Views
23 Pages

Design and Calibration of a Force/Tactile Sensor for Dexterous Manipulation

  • Marco Costanzo,
  • Giuseppe De Maria,
  • Ciro Natale and
  • Salvatore Pirozzi

25 February 2019

This paper presents the design and calibration of a new force/tactile sensor for robotic applications. The sensor is suitably designed to provide the robotic grasping device with a sensory system mimicking the human sense of touch, namely, a device s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,522 Views
18 Pages

IKULDAS: An Improved kNN-Based UHF RFID Indoor Localization Algorithm for Directional Radiation Scenario

  • Weiguang Shi,
  • Jiangxia Du,
  • Xiaowei Cao,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Yu Cao,
  • Shuxia Yan and
  • Chunya Ni

25 February 2019

Ultra high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID)-based indoor localization technology has been a competitive candidate for context-awareness services. Previous works mainly utilize a simplified Friis transmission equation for simulating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,861 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2019

This paper introduces an adaptive image rendering using a parametric nonlinear mapping-function-based on the retinex model in a low-light source. For this study, only a luminance channel was used to estimate the reflectance component of an observed l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,932 Views
13 Pages

Piezoresistive Hydrogel-Based Sensors for the Detection of Ammonia

  • Jan Erfkamp,
  • Margarita Guenther and
  • Gerald Gerlach

25 February 2019

Ammonia is an essential key compound in the chemical industry. However, excessively high ammonia concentrations can be harmful to the environment. Sensors for the detection of ammonia are therefore particularly important for environmental analysis. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
152 Citations
10,565 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2019

A trusted routing scheme is very important to ensure the routing security and efficiency of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). There are a lot of studies on improving the trustworthiness between routing nodes, using cryptographic systems, trust managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
12,812 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2019

Deep learning methods have been widely used in the field of intelligent fault diagnosis due to their powerful feature learning and classification capabilities. However, it is easy to overfit depth models because of the large number of parameters brou...

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