Proceedings, Volume 4, Issue 1

City noise and sound are measured and processed with the purpose of drawing appropriate government legislation and regulations, ultimately aimed at contributing to a healthier environment for humans. The primary use of urban noise analysis is carried...

This issue of Proceedings gathers the papers presented [...]

The DYNAMAP project is aimed at implementing a dynamic noise mapping system able to determine the acoustic impact of road infrastructures in real time. It was established as a result of the European Noise Directive 2002/49/EC. A Wireless Acoustic Sen...

The design was developed and investigated, and a laboratory sample of energy harvester based on 1–1.5 μm thick lead zirconate titanate Pb(Zr, Ti)O₃ (PZT) films was assembled. PZT films were formed on oxidized silicon by high-frequency reactive plasma...

In this work, through Monte Carlo analyses on statistical volume elements, we show the effect of the grain morphology and orientation on the effective elastic properties of polysilicon beams constituting critical MEMS components. The outcomes of the...

The paper focuses on real-time damage detection based on vibration studies carried out by the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) structural health monitoring team. The experiment was performed on a 1:3 scaled model of a six- story reinforced...

Since the 1970s, Korea has achieved exponential economic growth over a short period of time, with a huge amount of infrastructure built. However, 30 years on, this infrastructure is now deteriorating at a rapid pace due to extensive use and climatic...

This study presents a new scheme for autonomous health monitoring of railroad infrastructure using a continuous stream of structural health monitoring data. The study utilized measured strains from an optimized sensor set deployed on a double track,...

A new frontier in clinical disease diagnostics was quietly launched by a series of recent discoveries of dysbiosis-related phenomena. These developments make important connections between the metabolic activities of resident microbes and human diseas...

With over 6000 rivers and 5358 lakes, surface water is one of the most important resources in Nepal. However, the quantity and quality of Nepal’s rivers and lakes are decreasing due to human activities and climate change. Therefore, the monitoring an...

The improvement of the quality of life in the framework of the smart city paradigm cannot be limited to a set of objective measures carried out over several critical parameters (e.g., noise, air pollution). The citizen’s perception of the problem to...

The rate at which an individual recovers from exercise is known to be indicative of cardiovascular risk. It has been widely shown that the reduction in heart rate immediately after exercise is predictive of mortality. However, little research has bee...

Hospital patients recovering from major cardiac surgery are at risk of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), an arrhythmia which can be life-threatening. Wearable sensors are routinely used for electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring in patients at risk of...

Tuning the pore diameter of porous silicon (PS) is essential for some applications such as biosensing, where the pore size can filter the entrance of some analytes or increase its sensitivity. However, macropore (>50 nm) formation on p-type silico...

A label-free biosensor based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic bandgap (PBG) structures is performed for specific protein detection. First, the SOI sensing surface is functionalized using triethoxyvinylsilane (TEVS) organosilane. Then, a UV ligh...

The grinding process is usually one of the last stages in the manufacturing process chain since it can provide superior surface finish and closer dimensional tolerances. However, due to peculiarities of the grinding process, a workpiece material is s...

A self-standing porous silicon (PS) multilayer structure detached from the substrate by the lift-off method and integrated with a microfluidic cell is presented. Experiments of refractive index changes sensing flow through open-ended pores are report...

The attenuation due to vegetation can limit drastically the performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) communication systems. Even more for the envisaged high data rates expected for the upcoming 5G mobile wireless...

The optimal development of biosensors is a costly and time-consuming task, since an enormous amount of experiments is required. Therefore, the possibility of reusing the biosensors is highly desirable. In this work, a protocol based on the use of for...

Energy harvesting engineering fields constitutes a promising area to provide electrical power for low-power electric applications obtained from other sources of energy available in the environment such as thermal, electromagnetic, vibrational and aco...

A preliminary investigation on human tears by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is reported. This study is aimed to test the feasibility of SERS for sensing tear composition and potential changes in their composition due to pathologies, eye...

Geomagnetism has become a popular technology for indoor positioning, and its accuracy mainly depends on the accuracy of the geomagnetic matching algorithm. Pedestrian dead reckoning technology can calculate the relative position of pedestrians based...

The paper analyzes the influence of different magnetic resonance (MR) scan sequence parameters (echo time, repetition time, orientation of scan slices, sequence type, mass of a tested object) on the energy of the produced noise and vibration. The mea...

Industry 4.0 has paved the way for a world where smart factories will automate and upgrade many processes through the use of some of the latest emerging technologies. One such technology is Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which have evolved a great...

Refractive index is the main parameter measured by current optical sensors. Among all the photonic structures available for their design, porous materials have become an excellent option, since they provide better sensitivities. In our work, commerci...

The uncontainable future development of smart regions, as a set of smart cities’ assembled networks, is directly associated with a growing demand of full interactive and connected ubiquitous smart environments. To achieve this goal of global connecti...

In this paper, we propose a vision-based recognition approach to control the posture of a robotic arm with three degrees of freedom (DOF) using static and dynamic human hand gestures. Two different methods are investigated to intuitively control a ro...

Recent advances in computer vision techniques allow to obtain information on the dynamic behaviour of structures using commercial grade video recording devices. The advantage of such schemes lies in the non-invasive nature of video recording and the...

In most autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), the navigation system is based on an inertial navigation system (INS) aided by a Doppler velocity log (DVL). In several INSs, only the velocity vector, provided by the DVL, can be used as input for assis...

Transformers are essential equipment in electrical energy systems and their failure may lead to the loss of a power supply. Both industry and science have sought to develop sensors and low-cost solutions for the correct diagnosis of their failures. T...

Diabetes Mellitus, usually called only Diabetes, is a worldwide chronic metabolic disorder that is characterized by abnormal oscillations in blood sugar levels. Such levels should be monitored by diabetes patients, which traditionally have had to tak...

Sensors applied in the food industry are important tools for quality control. Current analyses checking adulteration in milk are expensive and time consuming, because the samples need to be evaluated in a laboratory environment. Thus, is important to...

This work proposes to adapt an existing sensor and embed it on mannequins used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to accurately measure the amount of air supplied to the lungs during ventilation. The proposed sensor consists of measuring...

A computational study of the interaction between cardiac troponin I and its specific antibody is carried out. The aim of this study is to characterize the binding process by determining the binding sites, number of interactions and energies. Furtherm...

Mapping and exploration are important tasks of mobile robots for various applications such as search and rescue, inspection, and surveillance. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are more suited for such tasks because they have a large field of view comp...

The impulse response of a piezoelectric transducer can be calculated using the electrical equivalent circuit model with the Manson method for bandwidth transducers. Nevertheless, these approaches are not sufficiently precise because the importance of...

The Al doped silicon–silicon oxide–hafnium oxide–silicon oxide–silicon capacitor device (Al-SOHOS) could be a candidate for blue light (BL) radiation total dose (TD) nonvolatile sensor. The BL radiation induces a significant increase in the threshold...

Due the complexity of control and automation networks in modern industries, sensor-based systems stand out as effective approaches for failure detection in electrical and mechanical machines. This kind of intervention has a high operational value in...

This paper addresses the issue of robotic haptic exploration of 3D objects using an enhanced model of visual attention, where the latter is applied to obtain a sequence of eye fixations on the surface of objects guiding the haptic exploratory procedu...

An individual’s cardiovascular state is a crucial aspect of a healthy life. However, it is not routinely assessed outside the clinical setting. Smart wearables use photoplethysmography (PPG) to monitor the arterial pulse wave (PW) and estimate heart...

Augmented reality is well known for extending the real world by adding computer-generated perceptual information and overlaid sensory information. In contrast, simulation worlds are commonly closed and rely on artificial sensory information generated...

Inertial navigation systems (INSs) require an initial attitude before its operation. To that end, the coarse alignment process is applied using inertial sensors readings. For low-cost inertial sensors, only the accelerometers readings are processed t...

The data recording of underwater noise is a key aspect for the prevention and improvement of management systems of maritime spaces. Thus, due to the presence of activities potentially generating impulsive noise, ports deserve special attention. This...

The purpose of this project was to design and implement an autonomous system based on Arduino to monitor environmental parameters that intervene in the perception of human comfort such as temperature, humidity, and solar radiation, and use them to an...

Efficient task co-ordination is an important problem in multirobot systems. The explicit programming of each robot to perform specific tasks (e.g., cleaning) is too cumbersome and inefficient, as the areas to serve in a map may vary with time. Moreov...

The development of new low-cost transducers and systems has been extensively aimed at in both industry and academia to promote a correct failure diagnosis in aerospace, naval, and civil structures. In this context, structural health monitoring (SHM)...

The energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is the critical concern of different studies, especially because of the great effort, or even the impossibility, to replace the battery of their motes. Consequently, it is fundamental to investigate...

In this work, we present a prototype of a compact linear array with three elements that is able to reproduce the acoustic signature of Ultra High Energy (UHE) neutrino interaction in water using the parametric acoustic effect. Mimicking this signal i...

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) passive and wireless sensors are a promising solution for condition
and structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. [...]

Hadrontherapy makes it possible to deliver high doses of energy to cancerous tumors by using the large energy deposition in the Bragg-peak. However, uncertainties in the patient positioning and or in the anatomical parameters can cause distortions in...