The technology for aerial robots and mobile robots is developing very rapidly. This technology can be used in many applications: for example, security robots, tour guided robots, home care robots ... Read More

In this paper, we discuss the correlation between the reagent temperature and the thermistor sensor outside the chamber. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chip employed is constructed on a prin ... Read More

The curing monitoring of polymeric composite materials is necessary to improve the mechanical performance, especially for the characterization of residual stress after manufacture. We aimed to ex ... Read More

In this study, several kinds of wireless inertial sensors, such as accelerometers, angular accelerometers and inclinometers based on the thermal convection principle, were integrated with near-fi ... Read More

In this study, we developed an all-in-one phantom and scintillator radiation sensor (PSRS) with plastic scintillating fibers which can measure the real-time position and the dose distribution of ... Read More

Particle detection in liquid reagents for various manufacturing processes is important, especially for the semiconductor industry, to maintain the yield and quality of the end products. As semico ... Read More

Nonlinear magneto-electric response characteristics of a giant magnetostrictive-piezoelectric composite sensor subjected to harmonic and colored noise magnetic excitation are discussed in this pa ... Read More

Indoor localization is used in many applications such as security, health care, location-based services, and social networking. In traditional localization systems, a target person carries a radi ... Read More

In the application of conventional 3-phase current reconstruction methods using a single DC-link current shunt, the self-switch configuration of space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) may ca ... Read More

Due to their low cost and compact size, micro-electromechanical system-based inertial sensors have been utilized to detect human motion. This study presents a hand gesture recognition method with ... Read More

Biochips have been the center of attention in biological research because they can be employed in improving various genetic analysis techniques, such as reducing both analysis time and the quanti ... Read More

This study investigates the issues of visual-sensor-assisted aerial robot navigation. The major objectives are to give an aerial robot the capabilities of localization and mapping in global posit ... Read More

For safety reasons, it is desirable to measure radiation as remotely as possible. For remote measurement of gamma radiation, the fiber-optic sensor (FOS) was developed in this study by combining ... Read More

To satisfy the requirement of structural health monitoring (SHM) using light sensors with high sensitivity, novel large-area and flexible lead zirconate titanate (PZT)/polyvinyl-butyral (PVB)/ ad ... Read More

Metal organic chemical vapor deposited GaN thin films on n-Si (111) substrates with cubic β-SiC (c-SiC) and porous β-SiC (PSC) buffer layers were characterized and compared with each other. We ... Read More

The most important issue for intelligent mobile robot development is the ability to navigate autonomously in the environment to complete certain tasks. Thus, the indoor localization problem of a ... Read More

The purpose of this research is to develop a fiber-optic Cerenkov radiation sensor (FOCRS) for detecting thermal neutrons in mixed radiation fields. Thus, we designed a probe for FOCRS to detect ... Read More

A good gas detection system is usually large and expensive because it requires specialized sensors or complex algorithms. In this study, we use easily obtained gas sensors and a single-chip micro ... Read More

Golf swing analysis is a popular research subject, and is divided into contact sensing and noncontact sensing analysis according to different research methods. Contact sensing research often uses ... Read More

In this paper, we propose a multi-hop distributed energy-efficient cluster fuzzy logic control (MHDEECFLC) architecture to solve the coverage problem of wireless networks, prolong network lifetim ... Read More