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Sensors, Volume 22, Issue 8

2022 April-2 - 281 articles

Cover Story: In situ weather observations are essential for understanding the past, present, and future climate of Mars and for the preparation of human exploration. The MEDA meteorological station is onboard of the Perseverance rover with this aim. Suspended dust in the Martian atmosphere is one of the main drivers of the planet's climate. Its optical properties and vertical distribution affect the absorption and reflection of solar radiation, modulating the planet’s energy balance. The Radiation and Dust Sensor within MEDA will provide unprecedented insights on it. This article describes the sensor development cycle starting from the scientific objectives and continuing with the different design solutions adopted, the qualification, the calibration, and the validation of the retrieval methods with two campaigns performed in an Earth Martian analog. View this paper.
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Articles (281)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,830 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2022

In general, the investigation of NN (neural network) computing systems requires the management of a significant number of simultaneous distinct algorithms, such as parallel computing, fault tolerance, classification, and data optimization. Supervised...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,255 Views
14 Pages

18 April 2022

Structural response prediction with desirable accuracy is considerably essential for the health monitoring of bridges. However, it appears to be difficult in accurately extracting structural response features on account of complex on-site environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,480 Views
12 Pages

Investigation of Impact of Walking Speed on Forces Acting on a Foot–Ground Unit

  • Barbara Jasiewicz,
  • Ewa Klimiec,
  • Piotr Guzdek,
  • Grzegorz Kołaszczyński,
  • Jacek Piekarski,
  • Krzysztof Zaraska and
  • Tomasz Potaczek

18 April 2022

Static and dynamic methods can be used to assess the way a foot is loaded. The research question is how the pressure on the feet would vary depending on walking/running speed. This study involved 20 healthy volunteers. Dynamic measurement of foot pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,509 Views
22 Pages

Detection of Surface and Subsurface Flaws with Miniature GMR-Based Gradiometer

  • Huu-Thang Nguyen,
  • Jen-Tzong Jeng,
  • Van-Dong Doan,
  • Chinh-Hieu Dinh,
  • Xuan Thang Trinh and
  • Duy-Vinh Dao

18 April 2022

The eddy-current (EC) testing method is frequently utilized in the nondestructive inspection of conductive materials. To detect the minor and complex-shaped defects on the surface and in the underlying layers of a metallic sample, a miniature eddy-cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,397 Views
19 Pages

A Covariance Matrix Reconstruction Approach for Single Snapshot Direction of Arrival Estimation

  • Murdifi Muhammad,
  • Minghui Li,
  • Qammer Abbasi,
  • Cindy Goh and
  • Muhammad Ali Imran

18 April 2022

Achieving accurate single snapshot direction of arrival (DOA) information significantly improves communication performance. This paper investigates an accurate and high-resolution DOA estimation technique by enabling single snapshot data collection a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,349 Views
24 Pages

18 April 2022

We propose a method for minimizing global buffer access within a deep learning accelerator for convolution operations by maximizing the data reuse through a local register file, thereby substituting the local register file access for the power-hungry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,219 Views
24 Pages

18 April 2022

Wearable technology has advanced significantly and is now used in various entertainment and business contexts. Authentication methods could be trustworthy, transparent, and non-intrusive to guarantee that users can engage in online communications wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,677 Views
18 Pages

Performance Analysis of Optically Pumped 4He Magnetometers vs. Conventional SQUIDs: From Adult to Infant Head Models

  • Saeed Zahran,
  • Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh,
  • Fabrice Wallois,
  • Nacim Betrouni,
  • Philippe Derambure,
  • Matthieu Le Prado,
  • Agustin Palacios-Laloy and
  • Etienne Labyt

18 April 2022

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are new, room-temperature alternatives to superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for measuring the brain’s magnetic fields. The most used OPM in MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) are based on alka...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,367 Views
11 Pages

High-Precision Log-Ratio Spot Position Detection Algorithm with a Quadrant Detector under Different SNR Environments

  • Li Huo,
  • Zhiyong Wu,
  • Jiabin Wu,
  • Shijie Gao,
  • Yunshan Chen,
  • Yinuo Song and
  • Shuaifei Wang

18 April 2022

In atmospheric laser communication, a beam is transmitted through an atmospheric channel, and the photocurrent output from a quadrant detector (QD) used as the tracking sensor fluctuates significantly. To ensure uninterrupted communication and to ada...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,784 Views
16 Pages

18 April 2022

Indoor localization using fine time measurement (FTM) round-trip time (RTT) with respect to cooperating Wi-Fi access points (APs) has been shown to work well and provide 1–2 m accuracy in both 2D and 3D applications. This approach depends on AP...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,986 Views
15 Pages

Standing-Wave Feeding for High-Gain Linear Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA) Array

  • Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak,
  • Ayman Abdulhadi Althuwayb,
  • Choon Sae Lee,
  • Gabriel Santamaría Botello,
  • Enderson Falcón-Gómez,
  • Luis Emilio García-Castillo and
  • Luis Enrique García-Muñoz

18 April 2022

A novel feeding method for linear DRA arrays is presented, illuminating the use of the power divider, transitions, and launchers, and keeping uniform excitation to array elements. This results in a high-gain DRA array with low losses with a design th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,683 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2022

Coal burst prediction is an important research hotspot in coal mine production safety. This paper presents FDNet, which is a knowledge and data fusion-driven deep neural network for coal burst prediction. The main idea of FDNet is to extract explicit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,530 Views
14 Pages

Muscle Mass Measurement Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Electrical Impedance Myography

  • Kuo-Sheng Cheng,
  • Ya-Ling Su,
  • Li-Chieh Kuo,
  • Tai-Hua Yang,
  • Chia-Lin Lee,
  • Wenxi Chen and
  • Shing-Hong Liu

18 April 2022

Sarcopenia is a wild chronic disease among elderly people. Although it does not entail a life-threatening risk, it will increase the adverse risk due to the associated unsteady gait, fall, fractures, and functional disability. The import factors in d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,772 Views
12 Pages

The Size Dependence of Microwave Permeability of Hollow Iron Particles

  • Anastasia V. Artemova,
  • Sergey S. Maklakov,
  • Alexey V. Osipov,
  • Dmitriy A. Petrov,
  • Artem O. Shiryaev,
  • Konstantin N. Rozanov and
  • Andrey N. Lagarkov

18 April 2022

Hollow ferromagnetic powders of iron were obtained by means of ultrasonic spray pyrolysis. A variation in the conditions of the synthesis allows for the adjustment of the mean size of the hollow iron particles. Iron powders were obtained by this tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,826 Views
28 Pages

18 April 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) in developing modern solutions for biomedical problems such as the prediction of human gait for human rehabilitation is gaining ground. An attempt was made to use plantar pressure information through fiber Bragg grating (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,226 Views
25 Pages

Development of a Soft Sensor for Flow Estimation in Water Supply Systems Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Robson Pacífico Guimarães Lima,
  • Juan Moises Mauricio Villanueva,
  • Heber Pimentel Gomes and
  • Thommas Kevin Sales Flores

18 April 2022

A water supply system is considered an essential service to the population as it is about providing an essential good for life. This system typically consists of several sensors, transducers, pumps, etc., and some of these elements have high costs an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,890 Views
24 Pages

18 April 2022

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is one of the commonly used standard methods for encrypting and signing messages which is especially applicable to resource-constrained devices such as sensor nodes that are networked in the Internet of Things. The s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,922 Views
23 Pages

Butterfly: μW Level ULP Sensor Nodes with High Task Throughput

  • Chong Zhang,
  • Li Lu,
  • Yihang Song,
  • Qianhe Meng,
  • Junqin Zhang,
  • Xiandong Shao,
  • Guangyuan Zhang and
  • Mengshu Hou

17 April 2022

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications calls for light-weight IoT sensor nodes with both low-power consumption and excellent task execution efficiency. However, in the existing system framework, designers must make trade-offs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,148 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2022

Piezoelectric harvesters use the actuation potential of the piezoelectric material to transform mechanical and vibrational energies into electrical power, scavenging energy from their environment. Few research has been focused on the development and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,277 Views
13 Pages

17 April 2022

Shoulder kinematics is a measure of interest in the clinical setting for diagnosis, evaluating treatment, and quantifying possible changes. The aim was to compare shoulder scaption kinematics between symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects by inertial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
13,024 Views
15 Pages

Quantitative Evaluation of EEG-Biomarkers for Prediction of Sleep Stages

  • Iqram Hussain,
  • Md Azam Hossain,
  • Rafsan Jany,
  • Md Abdul Bari,
  • Musfik Uddin,
  • Abu Raihan Mostafa Kamal,
  • Yunseo Ku and
  • Jik-Soo Kim

17 April 2022

Electroencephalography (EEG) is immediate and sensitive to neurological changes resulting from sleep stages and is considered a computing tool for understanding the association between neurological outcomes and sleep stages. EEG is expected to be an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,398 Views
11 Pages

Towards Dynamic Model-Based Agile Architecting of Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Alexander Vodyaho,
  • Nataly Zhukova,
  • Alexey Subbotin and
  • Fahem Anaam

17 April 2022

A model-based approach to large-scale distributed system architecting is suggested, which is based on the use of dynamic digital twins. This approach can be considered as an integration of known paradigms, such as digital twins, evolutionary architec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,141 Views
27 Pages

17 April 2022

The ultrasonic sound guide system presents the audio broadcasting system based on the inaudible ultrasonic sound to assist the indoor and outdoor navigation of the visually impaired. The transmitters are placed at the point of interest to propagate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,284 Views
15 Pages

16 April 2022

In this paper, we propose a symmetric series convolutional neural network (SS-CNN), which is a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN)-based super-resolution (SR) technique for ultrasound medical imaging. The proposed model comprises two parts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,047 Views
21 Pages

A Novel DEM Block Adjustment Method for Spaceborne InSAR Using Constraint Slices

  • Rui Wang,
  • Huiming Chai,
  • Bin Guo,
  • Li Zhang and
  • Xiaolei Lv

16 April 2022

The lack and uneven distribution of Ground Control Points (GCPs) will lead to the deterioration of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) block adjustment results in the bistatic Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) system. Given this issue, we fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,903 Views
19 Pages

Rethinking Power Efficiency for Next-Generation Processor-Free Sensing Devices

  • Yihang Song,
  • Songfan Li,
  • Chong Zhang,
  • Shengyu Li and
  • Li Lu

16 April 2022

The last decade has seen significant advances in power optimization for IoT sensors. The conventional wisdom considers that if we reduce the power consumption of each component (e.g., processor, radio) into μW-level of power, the IoT sensors could...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,419 Views
14 Pages

16 April 2022

This paper proposes a high-speed continuous wavelet transform (CWT) processor to analyze vital signals extracted from a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar sensor. The proposed CWT processor consists of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,638 Views
15 Pages

16 April 2022

Recently, the frequent occurrence of the misuse and intrusion of UAVs has made it a research challenge to identify and detect them effectively, and relatively high bandwidth and pressure on data transmission and real-time processing exist when sampli...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,909 Views
8 Pages

Head and Trunk Kinematics during Activities of Daily Living with and without Mechanical Restriction of Cervical Motion

  • Angela R. Weston,
  • Brian J. Loyd,
  • Carolyn Taylor,
  • Carrie Hoppes and
  • Leland E. Dibble

16 April 2022

Alterations in head and trunk kinematics during activities of daily living can be difficult to recognize and quantify with visual observation. Incorporating wearable sensors allows for accurate and measurable assessment of movement. The aim of this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,847 Views
18 Pages

Maximum Power Point Tracking-Based Model Predictive Control for Photovoltaic Systems: Investigation and New Perspective

  • Mostafa Ahmed,
  • Ibrahim Harbi,
  • Ralph Kennel,
  • José Rodríguez and
  • Mohamed Abdelrahem

16 April 2022

In this paper, a comparative review for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques based on model predictive control (MPC) is presented in the first part. Generally, the implementation methods of MPPT-based MPC can be categorized into the fixed s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,220 Views
14 Pages

16 April 2022

Spoofing attacks in face recognition systems are easy because faces are always exposed. Various remote photoplethysmography-based methods to detect face spoofing have been developed. However, they are vulnerable to replay attacks. In this study, we p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,252 Views
16 Pages

Intelligent Tools to Monitor, Control and Predict Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse

  • Dimitris Ntalaperas,
  • Christophoros Christophoridis,
  • Iosif Angelidis,
  • Dimitri Iossifidis,
  • Myrto-Foteini Touloupi,
  • Danai Vergeti and
  • Elena Politi

16 April 2022

Contemporary wastewater reclamation units entail several diverse treatment and extraction processes, with a multitude of monitored quality characteristics, controlled by a variety of key operational parameters directly affecting the efficiency of tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,536 Views
25 Pages

Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods for Classification of Epileptic Seizure EEG Signals

  • Sergio E. Sánchez-Hernández,
  • Ricardo A. Salido-Ruiz,
  • Sulema Torres-Ramos and
  • Israel Román-Godínez

16 April 2022

Epilepsy is a disease that decreases the quality of life of patients; it is also among the most common neurological diseases. Several studies have approached the classification and prediction of seizures by using electroencephalographic data and mach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,722 Views
13 Pages

16 April 2022

In this paper, single-element and MIMO microstrip antenna with two pairs of unequal slits is proposed as a circularly polarized antenna with negligible back radiation for 5G mid-band handsets. The unequal pairs of slits are engraved on the antenna pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,335 Views
21 Pages

A Tightly Coupled LiDAR-Inertial SLAM for Perceptually Degraded Scenes

  • Lin Yang,
  • Hongwei Ma,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Jing Xia and
  • Chuanwei Wang

15 April 2022

Realizing robust six degrees of freedom (6DOF) state estimation and high-performance simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for perceptually degraded scenes (such as underground tunnels, corridors, and roadways) is a challenge in robotics. To s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,843 Views
32 Pages

Deep Unfolding of Iteratively Reweighted ADMM for Wireless RF Sensing

  • Udaya S. K. P. Miriya Thanthrige,
  • Peter Jung and
  • Aydin Sezgin

15 April 2022

We address the detection of material defects, which are inside a layered material structure using compressive sensing-based multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) wireless radar. Here, strong clutter due to the reflection of the layered structure&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,618 Views
14 Pages

15 April 2022

A highly sensitive tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) (Ru(bpy)32+) electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) sensor based on a graphene-titania-Nafion composite film has been prepared in a simple one-step manner. In the present work, a highly con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,070 Views
22 Pages

15 April 2022

Close monitoring of vital physiological parameters is often key in following the evolution of certain medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, infections, post-operative status or post-traumatic injury). The allocation of trained medical staff and special...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,089 Views
45 Pages

Anthropomorphic Robotic Eyes: Structural Design and Non-Verbal Communication Effectiveness

  • Marko Penčić,
  • Maja Čavić,
  • Dragana Oros,
  • Petar Vrgović,
  • Kalman Babković,
  • Marko Orošnjak and
  • Dijana Čavić

15 April 2022

This paper shows the structure of a mechanical system with 9 DOFs for driving robot eyes, as well as the system’s ability to produce facial expressions. It consists of three subsystems which enable the motion of the eyeballs, eyelids, and eyebr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,353 Views
16 Pages

Are Machine Learning Models on Wrist Accelerometry Robust against Differences in Physical Performance among Older Adults?

  • Chen Bai,
  • Amal A. Wanigatunga,
  • Santiago Saldana,
  • Ramon Casanova,
  • Todd M. Manini and
  • Mamoun T. Mardini

15 April 2022

Sufficient physical activity (PA) reduces the risk of a myriad of diseases and preserves physical capabilities in later life. While there have been significant achievements in mapping accelerations to real-life movements using machine learning (ML),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,470 Views
17 Pages

Calibration and Localization of Optically Pumped Magnetometers Using Electromagnetic Coils

  • Joonas Iivanainen,
  • Amir Borna,
  • Rasmus Zetter,
  • Tony R. Carter,
  • Julia M. Stephen,
  • Jim McKay,
  • Lauri Parkkonen,
  • Samu Taulu and
  • Peter D. D. Schwindt

15 April 2022

In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the position, orientation, and gain of a magnetic field sensor using a set of (large) electromagnetic coils. We apply the method for calibrating an array of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) for magn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,578 Views
21 Pages

15 April 2022

Recently, the feedforward architecture of a super-resolution network based on deep learning was proposed to learn the representation of a low-resolution (LR) input and the non-linear mapping from these inputs to a high-resolution (HR) output, but thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,642 Views
21 Pages

15 April 2022

With non-invasive and high-resolution properties, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been widely used as a retinal imaging modality for the effective diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. The retinal fluid is often segmented by medical experts as a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,089 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2022

Positioning and tracking of containers is becoming an urgent demand of container transportation. Map matching algorithms have been widely applied to correct positioning errors. Because container trajectories have the characteristics of low sampling r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,547 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2022

Deep insights into microstructures and domain wall behaviors in the evaluation of different material statuses under elastic and plastic stress ranges have essential implications for magnetic sensing and nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,823 Views
11 Pages

15 April 2022

In this work, we focus on a drone-fleet-enabled package delivery scenario, in which multiple drones fly from a start point and cooperatively deliver packages to the ground users in the presence of a number of no-fly zones (NFZs). We first mathematica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,743 Views
12 Pages

Contribution of Singular Spectral Analysis to Forecasting and Anomalies Detection of Indoors Air Quality

  • Felipe Espinosa,
  • Ana B. Bartolomé,
  • Pablo Villoria Hernández and
  • M. C. Rodriguez-Sanchez

15 April 2022

The high impact of air quality on environmental and human health justifies the increasing research activity regarding its measurement, modelling, forecasting and anomaly detection. Raw data offered by sensors usually makes the mentioned time series d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,476 Views
16 Pages

An Efficient Framework for Securing the Smart City Communication Networks

  • Faisal Abdulaziz Alfouzan,
  • Kyounggon Kim and
  • Nouf M. Alzahrani

15 April 2022

Recently, smart cities have increasingly been experiencing an evolution to improve the lifestyle of citizens and society. These emerge from the innovation of information and communication technologies (ICT) which are able to create a new economic and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,837 Views
15 Pages

Clinical–Functional Evaluation and Test–Retest Reliability of the G-WALK Sensor in Subjects with Bimalleolar Ankle Fractures 6 Months after Surgery

  • Mario Fernández-Gorgojo,
  • Diana Salas-Gómez,
  • Pascual Sánchez-Juan,
  • David Barbado,
  • Esther Laguna-Bercero and
  • María Isabel Pérez-Núñez

15 April 2022

Ankle fractures can cause significant functional impairment in the short and long term. In recent years, gait analysis using inertial sensors has gained special relevance as a reliable measurement system. This study aimed to evaluate the differences...

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