No. 14 (2013)

Articles

• PSD estimation in Cognitive Radio systems: a perform

  Leopoldo Angrisani, Domenico Capriglione, Luigi Ferrigno, Gianfranco Miele

• A smart measurement network for optimization of electrical grid operation

  Dario Di Cara, Mario Luiso, Gianfranco Miele, Paolo Somella

• Application of intelligent instruments for the monitoring of thrust reverse noise at airports

  C. Asensio, M. Ruíz, M. Recuero, G. Moschioni, M. Tarabini

• An FPGA-based system for real-time monitoring of voltage harmonics

  Belkıs Eristi, Özal Yıldırım, Hüseyin Eristi, Yakup Demir

• Impedance estimation of a vibrating wire viscosity sensor using multi-harmonic signals

  José Santos, Pedro M.Ramos

• pH sensor calibration procedure

  Carola Artero Delgado, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Taking advantage of machine learning and pattern recognition in acoustic measurements

  C. Asensio, M. Ruíz, M. Recuero

• Digital pulse determination of high-current shunts frequency response

  Anton Zarevich, Sergey Muravyov, Elena Bedareva

• DSP based data acquisition system with on-board processing

  Pedro M.Pinto, Pedro M.Ramos

• On the use of complex excitation sequences for eddy current testing

  Giovani Betta, Pietro Burrascano, Luigi Ferrigno, Marco Laracca, Marco Ricci

• A new capacitance-to-digital convertor suitable for human proximity sensing

  Abhishek Ranjan, Boby George

• Thermal AC voltage standards with calculable AC-DC transfer difference in frequency range from 10 kHz to 1 MHz

  Marian Kampik, Michal Grzenik

• Improving the convergence of gene expression programming in impedance spectroscopy

  Pedro M. Ramos, Fernando M. Janeiro

• Threshold estimation for impedance spectroscopy in equivalent circuit identification

  Fernando M. Janeiro, Pedro M. Ramos

• A folding ADC based on switched capacitor circuits in 350 nm CMOS

  Wendell. E.M. Costa, Sabiniano A. Rodrigues, Raimundo C. S. Freire, Sebastian Y. Catunda, Thaís L.V.N. Silva

• Defining frequency domain performance of analog-to-information converters

  Doris Bao, Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Sergio Rapuano

• Quasi-analytical design of a square helmholtz coil with finite cross-sectional area as a magnetic flux density standard

  Sakda Somkun, Thepbodin Borirak-Arawin

• Water estimation in sugar cane using microwaves signal

  Gerardo Calva Olmos, Rafael Prieto Meléndez, Alberto Herrera Becerra, Alejandro Padrón Godínez, Mario Pacchiano de la Garza

• Noninvasive system of transcranial magnetic stimulation focused and deep

  Viviane S.G. Martins, Francisco de A.F. Tejo, Raimundo C.S. Freire, Rubem A. da Silva, Arlindo G.S.B. Neto, Marco A. Marcolin, Erich T. Fonoff, Thais Luana Vidal

• Influence of GPS measurements quality to NTP time-keeping

  Vukan Ogrizovic, Jelena Gucevc, Siniša Decev

• Crack size identification and localization using ultrasonic sensors with stationary wavelet transform and hilbert transform

  N.S.C. Ingaroca, J.M.M. Villanueva, Raimundo Carlos Freire, Thiago de Carvalho Batista

• Investigation of planar coil for eddy current conductivity measurements in wide frequency range

  Martin Parker, Andrei Pokatilov, Toomas Kübarsepp, Olev Märtens, Koliškins Andrejs

• Long-term monitoring of photovoltaic plants

  A. Carullo, F. Ferraris, A. Vallan, F. Spertino, F. Attivissimo

• Contactless measurements for on line quality monitoring in rubber extrusion processes

  Giuseppe Di Leo, Consolatina Liguori, Alfredo Paolillo, Antonio Pietrosanto

• Novel time-interleaved variable center-frequency, single-bit A/D and D/A sigma-delta modulator topologies

  Isıl Kalafat Kızılkaya, Mohammed Al-Janabi, Izzet Kale

• Design of seismic acquisition system for volcanology

  Normandino Carreras Pons, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Spartacus Gomáriz Castro

• Landslide transducer based on amorphous wire strain gauges

  Cristian Zet, Cristian Fosalau, Daniel Petrisor, Catalin Damian

• From system design to clock skew impact study in parallel sigma delta modulators using frequency band decomposition

  Rihab LAHOULI, Manel BEN-ROMDHANE, Chiheb REBAI, Dominique DALLET

• A method for restraining electromagnetic interference of electricity meter by means of pulse width testing circuit

  Wenfang LIU, ChongMin SONG, Jun Zhao, Feng SHAO

• Transient reduction in pulse-based impedance measurements

  Carles Aliau-Bonet, Ramon Pallàs-Areny

• Uncertainty factors in time-interval measurements in ballistocardiography

  Joan Gomez-Clapers, Albert Serra-Rocamora, Ramón Casanella Alonso, Ramon Pallàs-Areny

• New effective architectures and conversion algorithms for adaptive sub-ranging A/D converters

  Konrad Jedrzejewski

• Characterization of the propagation channel on board trains

  Andrea Mariscotti, Attilio Marrese, Nicola Pasquino, Rosario Schiano lo Moriello

• Method for forming a magnetic field of arbitrary shape from an established template

  Josep M. Torrents, Pablo Juan-García, Miguel Á. Sánchez-Moragues

• Thermal converter level dependence determination by digital sampling

  Alexandre Lourenço, Raul Caballero Santos, Javier Diaz de Aguilar Rois

• Average value evaluation of the distorted pulse signal

  Ján Hribik, Martin Boriš, Peter Fuchs

• Experimental evaluation of potential distribution in a grounding grid subjected to impulse current

  M.S de Castro, R.C.S Freire, E.G da Costa, E.C.T Macedo, N.S.S da Fonsêca, T.L Silva

• Detection and characterization of amplitude defects using spectral kurtosis

  Jose Maria Sierra-Fernandez, Juan José González de la Rosa, José Carlos Palomares-Salas, Agustín Agüera-Pérez

• Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy cell monitoring in a miniaturized bioreactor

  Jesús Martínez-Teruel, Tomás García-Sánchez, Andreu Francesc Fontova i Sosa, Ramon Bragós

• A numerical method of correcting the influence of the additional quantities for nonselective sensors

  Henryk Urzedniczok

• Measuring system and power management of the Guanay II AUV

  Ivan Masmitjà Rusiñol, Julián González, Spartacus Gomáriz Castro

• A study on the potential use of commercial digital two-phase generators in impedance comparison bridges

  Krzysztof Musiol, Marian Kampik

• The improvement of compensating current generation algorithms in active power filtering

  Janusz Mindykowski, Xu Xiaoyan, Tomasz Tarasiuk, Yang Caijian

• Design and measurement of the nH level mutual inductor

  Jiangtao ZHANG, Wenfang LIU, Xianlin PAN, Jianli LIU, Biao WANG, Qing HE

• Ultrasonic time of flight estimation for wind speed measurement based on time-frequency domain using STFT

  R.M. Duarte, R.M.M. Villanueva, M.M. Costa, R.C.S. Freire, Sebastian Yuri Cavalcanti Catunda, W.M. Costa

• Measurement of amplitude ratio and phase shift between sinusoidal voltages with superimposed gaussian noise

  Pawel Rochninski, Marian Kampik

• Architecture of the multi-tap-delay-line time-interval measurement module implemented in FPGA device

  Marek Zielinsk, Maciej Gurski, Dariusz Chaberski

• Low power and high efficency energy acquisition systems for volcano monitoring

  Angel David Moure, Pedro Torres

• Contribution of the spectral interference from the image component to the discrete spectrum of a sine-wave

  Daniel Belega, Dominique Dallet, Dario Petri

• Testing of high current transformer by non-uniform equivalent magnetomotive force method

  Kaifeng Qu, Wei Zhao, Bo Jiang, Songling Huang, Junjie Chen

• Virtual instrument for power quality research

  Vladimir Dimcev, Zivko Kokolanski, Dimitar Taskovski

• A robust and non-invasive heart-rate monitoring system

  S. Krishnamoorthy, C.S. Anoop, Boby George

• Parameter extraction in multi step exponential signal

  D.L Carnì, D. Grimaldi, L. Michaeli, J. Šaliga

• Data acquisition for green roof

  Gianluca Pizzuti, Francesco Lamonaca, Natale Arcuri

• Geometric feature extraction for precise measurements in intramedullary nail images

  Angelos Skembris, Elias Koukoutsis, Constantin Papaodysseus, Eleftherios Kafayas

• Operators to calculate the derivative of digital signals

  Lluís Ferrer-Arnau, Juan Mon González, Vicenç Parisi Baradad

• Low cost smart sensors for an intelligent home

  Marius Branzila, Constantin Sarmasanu

• Smart postural monitor for elderly people

  Vincenzo Di Lecce, Cataldo Guaragnella, Tiziana D'orazio, Rita Dario

• New architectures for high-performance arbitrary waveform generators (AWG)

  Joan Mercade

• The national measurement standards at CEM and their role in MRA and EMRP projects

  M. Neira

• Interlaboratory comparison pf microwave power measurement using type N coaxial line

  Murat Celep, Senel Yaran, Cem Hayirli, Handan Sakarya

• Measurement technique for online EV battery state of life monitoring

  George Gross, Marco Landi, Consolatina Liguori, Vincenzo Paciello

• Phase error in current transformers with nanocrystalline alloys core

  Thiago C. Batista, Benedito A. Luciano, Raimundo C. S. Freire

• Voltage source inverters: an easy approach for fast fault detection

  A.O Di Tommaso, F. Genduso, R. Miceli, C. Spataro

• A real-time compensation method for MV voltage transducer for power quality analysis

  Gabriella Crotti, Daniele Gallo, Domenico Giordano, Carmine Landi, Mario Luiso

• A novel blind adaptive correction algorithm for 2-channel time-interleaved ADCs

  Simran Singh, Michael Epp, Mikko Valkama, Georg Vallant, Wolfgang Schlecker

• Cloud nowcasting: motion analysis of all-sky images using velocity fields

  Yézer González, César López, Emilio Cuevas

• Synchronization of DLMS/COSEM sensor nodes

  Alfonso Attianese, Antonio Del Giudice, Marco Landi, Vincenzo Paciello, Antonio Pietrosanto

• Low-cost multi-channel synchronous data acquisition system based on compressive sampling approach

  Francesco Bonavolontà, Annalisa Liccardo, Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello, Luigi Ferrigno, Marco Laracca, Gianfranco Miele, Leopoldo Angrisani

• Identification of wire network topology using impedance spectroscopy

  Qinghai Shi, Olfa Kanoun

• Analysis of NetCDF-4 and HDF-5 scientific file formats for the data archiving of ITER fast plant system controller prototype

  R. Castro, J. Vega, M. Ruiz, D. Sanz, E. Barrera

• Electromechanical characterizations of MEMS based energy harvesters by harmonic sampling analysis method

  Alexandre Bounouh, Denis Bélières

• A new peak detector based on usage of CCCIIs

  Predrag B. Petrovic

• Estimation of the amplitude quotient of signals with common frequency

  Tomaž Lušin, Dušan Agrež

• Precision timing in TDMA-based Wireless Sensor Network through IEEE 1588 standard

  Daniel Toma, Joaquín del Río Fernández, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Double squirrel cage induction motors: a new approach to detect rotor bar failures

  A.O Di Tommaso, R. Miceli, C. Spataro

• Evaluation of the uncertainty of calibration the of three phase high precision comparator of the electrical power

  O. Velychko, S. Karpenko, V. Gachok

• Multipole-field correction of stretched-wire measurements of the gradient in accelerator magnets

  P. Arpaia, C. Petrone, S. Russenschuck, L. Walckiers

• Detection and characterization of oscillatory transient using Spectral Kurtosis

  Jose Maria Sierra-Fernandez, Juan José González de la Rosa, Agustín Agüera-Pérez, José Carlos Palomares-Salas

• A magnetic field probe for hostile environments

  M. Canepa, A. Mariscotti

• Extending the scale of inductance using 1:1 comparator bridge

  Krzysztof Musiol, Tadeusz Skubis

• Metal plate thickness classification in eddy current testing using support vector machine

  Tiago Rocha, Dário Pasadas, Helena G. Ramos, Artur L. Ribeiro

• Calibration of magnetic field meters up to 50 kHz at CMI

  Michal Ulvr

• Carbon/polymer hybrid bio-sensors for neurotransmitters analysis

  Cristina Schreiner, Gabriel Dimofte, Thomas Schreiner

• Good practice guide for calibrating a hydrophone “in situ”

  Albert Garcia Benadí, Francisco Javier Cadena Muñoz, Joaquín del Río Fernández, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• User-friendly software tool for advanced ADC testing

  Tomás Virosztek, István Kollár

• Upon te influence of the real value of human body capacitance in ESD immunity tests

  Alexandru Salceanu, Fanel Iacobescu, Mirela-Adelaida Anghel

• The evolution of electrical energy measurement in Brazil

  Ana Maria Ribeiro Franco, Rosane Moreira Debatin

• Measurement of frequency dependences of low-value four-terminal resistance standards

  Jaroslav Bohacek

• Multi-channel system for remote power quality monitoring of electricity supplied by public distribution networks

  Aleksandar Nikolic, Blagoje Babic, Aleksandar Zigic, Nikola Miladinovic, Srdjan Milosavljevic

• Wireless intelligent systems for biosignals monitoring using low cost devices

  Marius Branzila, Valeriu David

• Linearization of A/D converters using dither

  Balázs Renczes, István Kollár

• Power profile generator for the test of microgrid measurement and control systems

  M. Bertocco, G. Giorgi, C. Narduzzi

• Thermocouple dynamic errors correction for instantaneous temperature measurements in induction heating

  Krzysztof Konopka

• Improving the result of the histogram test using a fast sine fit algorithm

  Vilmos Pálfi, István Kollár

• Improving the single point calibration technique in direct sensor-to-microcontroller interface by increasing nonlinearity

  Zivko Kokolanski, Cvetan Gavrovski, Vladimir Dimcev

• Study of a hall effect brake wear sensor using finite element modelling and analysis

  C.S. Anoop, Boby George

• Calibration of low-current meters at nA level with the capacitance-charging method

  Luca Callegaro, Vincenzo D'Elia

• Ultrapure sinewave generation by combining Josephson systems

  Ralf Behr, Oliver Kieler, Detlef Schleußner, Luis Palafox, Franz Ahlers

• Measurement of landslide displacement and orientation using strain gauges based on amorphous magnetic microwires

  Daniel Petrisor, Cristian Fosalau, Cristian Zet, Catalin Damian

• Universal laboratory measurement system for evaluation of the impedance spectroscopy method based on multi-harmonic excitation signal

  Jerzy Hoja, Michał Kowalewski, Grzegorz Lentka

• Calibration system for electric charge at the Centro Español de Metrología

  Felix Raso, Manuel L. Cervantes

• Exhaled breath alcohol - quality assurance in the field of legal metrology

  Mirela-Adelaida Anghel, Fanel Iacobescu, Alexandru Salceanu

• Model of errors caused by discrepancies of input channels in multiresolution ADC

  Miroslav Kamenský, Karol Kovác, Gabriel Války

• The analysis of exponential signals by maximum likelihood estimation

  Linus Michaeli, Marek Godla, Ján Šaliga, Josef Liptak, István Kollár

• Assessment of the uncertainty associated with synchronization error in analog to digital conversion with dither and CAV

  Anna Domanska

• Experimental results on magnetic cores for magnetic induction-based energy harvesting

  Tarcísio Oliveira de Moraes Júnior, Yuri Percy Molina Rodriguez, Cleonilson Protásio de Souza, Ewerton Cleudson Sousa Melo

• Development of a system for the accurate measurement of power with distorted waveforms

  U. Pogliano, B. Trinchera, D. Serazio

• Development of electrochemical nano-biosensors with distributed metal particles

  Cristina Schreiner, Theodora Krasia-Christoforou, Cristina Bratescu, Ramona Burlacu, Maria Demetriou, Ioanna Savva

• Assessment of the immunity to radiated disturbances of an FPAA-based front-end device for ECG signal monitoring

  Nicola Pasquino, Dalila Salhi

• A frequency independent method for adaptive correction of time interleaved analog to digital converters

  Antoine Bonnetat, Jean-Miquel Hodé, Dominique Dallet, Guillaume Ferré

• Water fraction measurement using a RF resonant cavity sensor

  Heron Eduardo Ávila, Daniel Juan Pagano, Fernando Rangel de Sousa

• On compressed sensing and super-resolution in DFT-based spectral analysis

  M. Bertocco, G. Frigo, C. Narduzzi

• Modelling the non-stationary behaviour of time-varying bioimpedance

  Benjamin Sanchez, Ebrahim Louarroudi, Rik Pintelon, Ramon Bragos

• Advanced parameter measurement of energy storage systems for smart grids application

  Daniele Gallo, Carmine Landi, Mario Luiso

• Design and implementation of a hybrid MPPT technique based on the scan of the power vs voltage input characteristic of the inverter

  Marco Balato, Daniele Gallo, Carmine Landi, Mario Luiso, Massimo Vitelli

• Automated quasi-balancing in virtual quasi-balanced circuit designed to capacitance measurements

  Adam Cichy, Artur Skórkowski, Sebastian Barwinek

• ECT characterization of a linear defect from multiple angle measurements

  Dário Pasadas, Tiago Rocha, Artur L. Ribeiro, Helena G. Ramos

• The matlab toolbox for simulation analysis and design support of new adaptive sub-ranging A/D converters

  Konrad Jedrzejewski

• A portable, wireless and low cost solution for acquisition signal studies: a case for EMG signal

  D.K.N Silva, R.M.V Sato, A.L.S Castro

• Modeling and simulation of a wheatstone bridge pressure sensor in high temperature with VHDL-AMS

  Sahbi Baccar, Timothée Levi, Dominique Dallet, François Barbara

• Study and characterization of a microcalorimeter thermostat

  L. Oberto, L. Brunetti, C.E. Calosso

• Using an IEEE1149.1 test bus for fault diagnosis of analog parts of electronic embedded Systems

  Zbigniew Czaja, Bogdan Bartosinski

• A smart current control of a measurement station for superconducting cable test

  Pasquale Arpaia, Amalia Ballarino, Vincenzo Daponte, Domenico Maisto, Giuseppe Montenero, Cesare Svelto

• NFC RF analog challenge and enhanced high speed transmitter design

  Larisa Mwalula, Mohammed Al-Janabi, Izzet Kale, Tim Hammersley

• IEEE1588 V2 clock distribution in FlexRIO devices: clock drift measurement

  D. Sanz, M. Ruiz, J.M Lopez, R. Castro, J. Vega, E. Barrera

• Programmable power spectral density noise source

  L. Angrisani, M. D'Arco, E. Napoli

• Monitoring cell monolayers during electroporation: Electrical impedance spectroscopy measurements

  Tomás García-Sánchez, Benjamin Sanchez, Javier Rosell-Ferrer

• Low-frequency noise measurements in silicon power MOSFETs as a tool to experimentally investigate the defectiveness of the gate oxide

  Paolo Magnone, Pier Andrea Traverso, Giacomo Barletta, Claudio Fiegna

• Time domain processing of pulsed differential eddy currents testing signals

  Luis S. Rosado, Pedro M. Ramos, Moisés Piedade

• Experimental set-up for the validation of numerical methods in electromagnetic dosimetry

  D. Giordano, L. Zilberti, M. Borsero, W. Wang

• A novel capacitance-to-digital converter for capacitive sensors with AC excitation

  Prashanth Vooka, Boby George, Abhishek Ranjan

• Double quasi - balanced meter for measurement of inductor quality factor

  Adam Cichy, Artur Skórkowski, Sebastian Barwinek

• Hypothesis test on the ratio between two measurement uncertainties

  A. Zanobini, L. Ciani, M. Catelani

• Uncertainty to harmonic measurements with DFT techniques

  Marcus Vinicius Viegas Pinto, Marcos Augusto Stemmer, Noara Foiatto

• Decimator filter based on B-splines

  Luis Jorge Ferrer Arnau, Francesc Xavier Roset Juan, Vicenç Parisi Baradad

• Time-synchronous sampling in wireless sensor networks

  Jürgen Funck, Clemens Gühmann

• Design and implementation of an automatic measurement system for the characterization of power MOSFETs

  M. Catelani, L. Ciani

• Characterised measuring system for PQ measurements on the MV grid

  G. Crotti, D. Giordano

• Traceability for aerosol electrometer in the fA range

  Dean G. Jarrett, Miles C. Owen

• Automatic and systematic control of experimental data measurements on ASICs

  E. Tena, J. Castro, A.J Acosta

• Impedance simulator for automatic calibration of LCR meters: proof-of-principle experiment

  Frédéric Overney, Blaise Jeanneret

• A method for estimating state of charge in energy-aware wireless sensor nodes

  G. Giorgi, A. Veronese, L. Corradini, L. Scandola