
5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications series
15–30 Nov 2018
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Welcome from the Chairs
All participants of ECSA-5 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Sensors Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications".
We gladly announce that Dr. Babak Moaveni (Tufts University, USA), Dr. Pascal Nicolay (Carinthian Tech Research, Austria) and Dr. Michael Ortner (Carinthian Tech Research, Austria) as our keynote speakers.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Rosa Ma Alsina-Pages, Dr. Jiri Pribil and Dr. Antonella Daniela Pontoriero's papers were awarded the ECSA-5 Best Paper Award in 2018.
We are pleased to announce the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications. After the success of the four editions from 2014 to 2017, this year edition will focus on 4 thematic areas where sensors are changing science:
- Chemo and Biosensors (Session A)
- Physical Sensors (Session B)
- Sensor Networks (Session C)
- Applications (Session D)
There will be 4 specific sessions:
- Smart Cities (Specific Session S1)
- Smart Sensing Systems and Structures (Specific Session S2)
- Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks (Specific Session S3)
- Wearable Sensors (Specific Session S4)
and also a Poster session. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper and will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
Participants will have the opportunity to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in these areas. We hope to facilitate discussions and exchange within the community.
This event will solely be an online proceeding which allows the participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures. This type of conference is particularly appropriate and useful because research concerned with sensors is progressing rapidly. An electronic conference provides a platform for rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas. The participation as well as the "attendance" of this online conference is free of charge.
The 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications will be held at https://ecsa-5.sciforum.net/, on a platform developed by MDPI to organize electronic conferences.
The 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journals Sensors. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference, and selected papers will be published in Sensors with a 20% discount off the APC.
Sensors is an Open Access publication journal of MDPI in the field of the science and technology of sensors and biosensors.
We hope the community will share this enthusiasm and help making this 5th edition a success—for many to come in the future.
The Chairs of the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications.
Dr. Stefano Mariani |
Dr. Stefano Mariani received an M.S. degree (cum laude) in civil engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in structural engineering in 1999; both degrees are from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan. He was a research scholar at the Danish Technical University in 1997, an adjunct professor at Penn State University in 2007, and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Algorithms, International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, Inventions, Machines, Micro and Nanosystems, Micromachines, and Sensors. He has been a recipient of the Associazione Carlo Maddalena Prize for graduate students (1996), and of the Fondazione Confalonieri Prize for PhD students (2000). His main research interests are: the reliability of MEMS that are subject to shocks and drops; the structural health monitoring of composite structures through MEMS sensors; numerical simulations of ductile fracture in metals and of quasi-brittle fracture in heterogeneous and functionally graded materials; extended finite element methods; the calibration of constitutive models via extended and sigma-point Kalman filters; and multi-scale solution methods for dynamic delamination in layered composites. |
Dr. Francesco Ciucci |
Dr. Francesco Ciucci is an associate professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he was supported by a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and a Bechtel Fellowship. He did his postdoc at the University of Heidelberg’s Institute of Scientific Computing, where he received a Heidelberg Graduate School postdoctoral fellowship and a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant. Prior to that, he obtained a dual M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics/Applied Physics at the Ecole Centrale Paris, France and in Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. His current research interests include the development of batteries and fuel cells. |
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus |
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus received his mechanical engineering diploma based on studies (at Volkswagen’s central laboratory) dedicated to the galvanic corrosion of magnesium alloys. He joined Fraunhofer IFAM in 1998, and has been working on metallic foams and structures since then. Dr. Lehmhus obtained a PhD in production technology at Bremen University for studies concerning the optimization of aluminum foam production processes and properties. From 2006 to 2009, he lectured on “Materials Science and Mechanics” at the University of Applied Science (FH) Bremen. In May 2009, he moved to the University of Bremen to become managing director of its Scientific Center ISIS (Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering), the foundation of which he helped organize. The center is dedicated to the development of sensorial materials and sensor-equipped structures. Since 2009, he has been regularly involved in topic and symposium coordination at the Euromat conference series, with a special focus on materials with transport applications. |
Dr. Tom Messervey |
Dr. Tom Messervey has over 20 years of engineering experience, which includes military service in the US Army Corps of Engineers, industrial experience with the Italian Engineering Company, D’Appolonia, teaching excellence at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and coaching services as the EU Facilitator for the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems program (www.ims.org). He serves as an expert for the European Commission in textiles, manufacturing, and energy efficiency. His research interests focus on using sensor data to make better engineering decisions across design, assessment, maintenance, inspections, and energy management to include machine learning. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), the International Association of Life Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), and a technical reviewer for the International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering and the Journal of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. |
Dr. Alberto Vallan |
Dr. Alberto Vallan received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Instrumentation from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Electronic Measurements with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino. From 2000 to present, he has been a lecturer in courses concerning Electronic Measurements and Sensors. His research interests are focused on the development and characterization of fiber sensors and measuring instruments for biomedical and industrial applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE/Instrumentation&Measurement Society. |
Dr. Stefan Bosse |
Dr. Stefan Bosse received his physics diploma in the year 1998 at the University of Bremen addressing surface distortion measuring methods based on correlation analysis of scattered laser light. He received a doctoral degree in physics in the year 2002 at the University of Bremen based on laser-light scattering measuring methods used for high-viscose liquid flow analysis. Beside natural science, his scientific interests were devoted from the beginning to distributed computing systems and distributed operating systems. In the year 2004 he joined the Department of Computer Science and the working group robotics working as a senior researcher and lecturer. Since 2002 until today he focuses his work on parallel and distributed systems in general, sensor networks and sensorial materials, Artificial Intelligence (Agents and Machine Learning), Cloud-based computing and the Internet-of-Things, but also on System-on-Chip circuit design and computer aided design (high-level synthesis). Interdisciplinary work is one major skill. Since 2008 he conducts projects in the ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre pushing interdisciplinary research bridging material and computer sciences, and recently joining the ISIS council. He acts as a reviewer and guest editor for international journals and joins international conference programme committees, and he gives multiple lectures at the University covering basics of computer science, parallel and distributed systems, circuit design, and material-integrated sensing systems. |
Dr. Francisco Falcone |
Dr. Francisco Falcone received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communication Engineering (2005), both at the Public University of Navarre in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer, Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer, Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless, From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis, with applications to context aware environments, Smart Cities and Smart Regions. He has over 400 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation. |
Call for papers
5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
The 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications will be held from 15 to 30 November 2018 in the internet environment. This event will solely be an online proceeding which allows the participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures, while at the same time making rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas in sensors. All proceedings will be held online at https://ecsa-5.sciforum.net/ and in Journal Proceedings.
The conference aims to bring the scientists working in the field onto a common platform and promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of sensing technologies and applications along the following 4 main themes:
- Chemo and Biosensors (Session A)
- Physical Sensors (Session B)
- Sensor Networks (Session C)
- Applications (Session D)
and 4 specific sessions:
- Smart Cities (Specific Session S1)
- Smart Sensing Systems and Structures (Specific Session S2)
- Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks (Specific Session S3)
- Wearable Sensors (Specific Session S4)
and also a Poster Session. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper and will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the procedure for submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section "Instructions for Authors": https://sciforum.net/conference/ecsa-5#instructions.
Time Schedule
- Abstract Submission: 10 September 2018 1 October 2018
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2018 5 October 2018
- Proceedings Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2018
- Conference Open: 15-30 November 2018
Conference Chairs

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Pavia, Italy
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Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Spain
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Conference Committee

The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Angelo Maria Sabatini graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pisa and received the Ph.D. in Robotics from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he is currently associate professor of Biomedical Engineering leading the Sensor Signals & Information Processing Area within the BioRobotics Institute.
Wearable sensor systems, magneto-inertial sensing, human motion analysis, human performance assessment - with a focus on the development of computational methods combining sensor fusion and machine learning algorithms.
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Department of Communications, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera 46022, Valencia, Spain,
Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC)
Prof. Jaime Lloret ([email protected]) received his B.Sc.+M.Sc. in Physics in 1997, his B.Sc.+M.Sc. in electronic Engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2006. He is a Cisco Certified Network Professional Instructor. He worked as a network designer and administrator in several enterprises. He is currently Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is the Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC) and he i
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School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
Dr. Lockhart is a Professor in the Biomedical Engineering and Biological Design program in the School of Biological Health and Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Barrow Neurological Institute and Research Affiliate at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and a Guest Professor at Ghent University in Belgium. Previously (2000-2014), Dr. Lockhart was a Professor at Virginia Tech, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department a
human locomotion, gait and posture, and wearable sensors
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Lincoln Professor, Ph.D Supervisor, University of Lincoln, UK,
Distinguished Professor, Nanjing Agricultural University, China,
Director, NAU-Lincoln Joint Research Center of Intelligent Engineering, China
Lei Shu (SM’16) is a distinguished professor with Nanjing Agricultural University, China, and a Lincoln Professor with the University of Lincoln, UK. He is also the director of the NAU-Lincoln Joint Research Center of Intelligent Engineering. His main research field is wireless sensor networks. He has authored over 370 papers in related conferences, journals, and books in the area of sensor networks. He was awarded the GlobeCom 2010 and the ICC 2013 Best Paper Award, IEEE Systems Journal 2017 an
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Boon-Chong Seet received his PhD degree in Computer Communications Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2005. Upon graduation, he worked as a Research Fellow under the Singapore–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance (SMA) Program at the National University of Singapore. Since December 2007, he is with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, where he is currently an Associate Professor and leader
Sensing; Computing and communications
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Distinguished University Professor
Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology
Distinguished University Professor Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Director, Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory President - Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada (2015-17) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, ITB 104 McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, CANADA URL: www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~jamal
Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics and Opto-electronics
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Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jonathan joined the Department in 2007 and his research interests lie mainly in the areas of remote sensing and geographical information science including topographic and thematic mapping from satellite imagery, airborne and terrestrial mobile laser scanning, remote sensing of inland and coastal waters, GIS and web mapping, terrain analysis in hydrogeography and hazard mapping.
mobile laser scanners; multispectral lidar; bathymetric lidar, digital cameras; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); optical/lidar/SAR data processing; applications of optical/lidar/SAR in urban mapping; hazard mapping; shoreline mapping; marine pollution trac
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School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Nanoparticle, Colloidal quantum dot, Nanobiotechnology
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1st Researcher at Institute of Crystallography for Atmospheric Pollution CNR - Via Salaria km 29, 300, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
Roberto Pilloton (CNR-IIA) is now in the Editorial Board of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374), an open access journal, providing an advanced forum for studies related to the science and technology of biosensors and biosensing, Published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, Biosensors aims at a growing reputation in this field and publishing high quality papers.
Electrochemistry, environmental analytical chemistry; biosensors; sensors and sensing; continuous flow monitoring; immobilization techniques; enzyme inhibitors; lab on a chip; nanostructured electrodes; screen printed electrodes; herbicides; pe
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Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Embedded Integrated Circuits for Telecommunications; Electronic/artificial sensitive skin; Embedded electronic systems for tactile sensors; Tactile sensing systems for prosthetics and robotics; Neuromorphic touch sensors
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Department of Technologies of Computers and Communications, University of Extremadura, Spain
Juan A. Gomez-Pulido received the Ph.D. degree in physics, electronics specialty, from the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, in 1993. He is currently professor of computer organization and design of processors in the Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, University of Extremadura, Spain. He has authored or co-authored 60 ISI journals, tens of book chapters, and more than two hundred peer-reviewed conference proceedings.
hot topics on wireless sensor networks, reconfigurable and embedded computing based on FPGA devices, mobile computing, machine learning applied to big-data analysis, optimization, and evolutionary computing
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Keynote Speakers
Dr. Babak Moaveni is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of California San Diego, M.S. in Earthquake Engineering and B.S in Civil Engineering both from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include vibration-based structural health monitoring, system and damage identification of civil structures, experimental modal analysis, signal processing, finite element analysis and finite element model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models. He is currently serving as the chair of Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and as the associate editor for Structural Health Monitoring and Frontiers in Built Environment journals.
Dr. Pascal Nicolay was born in Metz, France, in 1977. He studied Physics, Innovation Sciences and Engineering. He got his PhD from the University of Lorraine in 2007, and his Habilitation from the University of Technology of Compiègne, in 2018. He has worked for several companies, including TDK-EPCOS (now QUALCOMM) and CTR (Carinthian Tech Research). He’s currently a Senior Researcher and R&D project manager at CTR, with a focus on the development of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors and RF filters, for various industrial and research applications. He is the co-author of more than 50 scientific papers and communications, in the field of SAW devices.
Dr. Michael Ortner studied theoretical physics at the Technical University of Vienna and subsequently did his PhD at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck. In 2012 he started as a researcher at the Carinthian Tech Research Institute working on magnetics and magnetic sensor systems with focus on analytical approaches and numerical simulation.
List of Keynotes & Videos
Keynotes
Integration of Sensor Data with Physics-based Models for Performance Assessment of Civil Structures
Relate Paper:
Integration of Sensor Data with Physics-based Models for Performance Assessment of Civil Structures
Sensors for Industrial Applications – A Short Review of Surface Acoustic Wave and Magnetic Sensors and Systems
Relate Papers:
Wireless and passive SAW devices, for Structural Health Monitoring applications
Magnetic Sensor System Design, Theory and Applications
Videos
Full-scale Testing of a Masonry Building Monitored with Smart Brick Sensors
Relate Paper:
Full-scale testing of a masonry building monitored with smart brick sensors
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-250 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 10 September 2018 1 October 2018.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications. All authors will be notified by 15 September 2018 5 October 2018 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit the manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 15 October 2018.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on https://ecsa-5.sciforum.net/ for discussion during the time of the conference 15–30 November 2018 and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
- The Open Access Journal Sensors will publish Special Issue of the conference and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference itself. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in the Special Issue of the journal Sensors (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.).
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
First page:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract (200-250 words)
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
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List of accepted submissions (60)
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sciforum-022066 | Design of an open-source monitoring system for thermodynamic analysis of buildings and systems | , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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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 comforts such as temperature, humidity, and solar radiation, and use them to analyze factors related to climate control and energy efficiency in buildings. The system was tested in laboratory conditions as well as by in situ measurements of building elements and living spaces. Some of the experiments carried out were contrasted with numerical simulations that allowed us to understand the implemented system. The thermal and optical sensors were calibrated in the laboratory by comparison with standard probes for temperature and illuminance. The result was used to adjust the measurements and to control any possible errors due to the sensors. Preliminary measurements were made in systems that simulate enclosures, with walls of different thermal conductivities, for comparison with computer simulations, and later measurements were performed outside the laboratory, which was contrasted with a thermodynamic simulation tool. Additionally, it was assessed the use of the system to measure the surface evolution of thermal parameters in a space. With the use of the system to measure real conditions and its calibration, it was possible to demonstrate its practicality and good operation. The result of this work can be the basis for an interesting alternative to systems for recording and monitoring thermodynamic variables in the field of architecture and energy efficiency for its versatility and economy. |
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sciforum-022120 | Integration of Sensor Data with Physics-based Models for Performance Assessment of Civil Structures |
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Structural identification methods using sensor data have received increased attention in the civil engineering research community with the objective of identifying structural performance, and evaluating the remaining useful life of structures. While many researchers have successfully applied various approaches to numerical and/or small-scale laboratory models of structures, the literature lacks many successful applications to large‐scale civil structures under real loading environment. This study highlights the challenges of structural health monitoring methods for applications to large‐scale civil structures, especially when dealing with changing ambient and environmental conditions. A hierarchical Bayesian framework is presented for probabilistic model updating and damage identification to account for inherent as well as parameter estimation and measurement uncertainties. It is shown that the proposed hierarchical framework allows to explicitly account for pertinent sources of variability such as ambient temperature and/or excitation amplitude and therefore yields more accurate predictions. The study also highlights the value of using point cloud data in addition to vibration measurements for structural performance assessment. The point clouds are informative about identification of cracks at their early stages while the vibration data provide measure of stiffness at later stages of damage. Performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated through application to three large-scale reinforced concrete building structures. |
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sciforum-021740 | Wireless and passive SAW devices, for Structural Health Monitoring applications. |
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Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) passive and wireless sensors are a promising solution for condition and structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. They are robust devices, which can withstand extreme operating conditions (very high temperatures, high pressure etc.). They do not require any embedded electronics and can be implanted in various kinds of (dielectric) structures. Moreover, SAW Sensors of the Reflective Delay Line (R-DL) type have built-in RFID capabilities, which can prove extremely useful for various industrial applications. Our presentation will start with an overview of CTR R&D activities. We will then present a short review of SAW RFID Sensors for industrial applications, with a focus on implantable devices like torque sensors, pressure sensors, and temperature sensors. Specific examples of applications in the chemical, automotive and steel industries will be provided. We will then discuss the potential of SAW RFID Sensors for SHM applications. Existing solutions will be described, as well as possible applications based on existing 2.45GHz R-DL devices. As SAW sensors often fail in operation, due especially to housing failure at high temperature, promising ‘package-less’ solutions will be presented. Here, guided modes that propagate in protective multilayer structures are used, instead of surface waves. Several multilayer configurations have been suggested, simulated and/or tested in the past years. Pros & cons of the different configurations will be discussed. |
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sciforum-021833 | Acoustic location of Bragg peak for hadrontherapy monitoring | , , , | N/A |
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Hadrontherapy makes possible to deliver high doses of energy on cancerous tumours 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 the calculation of the dose distribution. In order to maximize the effectiveness of heavy particle treatments, an accurate monitoring system of the deposited dose dependent on the energy, the beam time and the spot size is necessary. The localized deposition of this energy leads to the generation of a thermoacoustic pulse that can be detected using acoustic technologies. This article presents different experimental and simulation studies of the acoustic localization of thermoacoustic pulses. With respect to the experimental measurements, the pulse is emulated by means of piezoelectric ceramic or thermoacoustically generated by an electrical source. Both sources are placed in water and within a "phantom" medium that recreates the mechanical properties of the human body.. The signals have been captured with a set of sensors around the samples with a data acquisition system. In addition, numerical simulations have been done where thermoacoustic pulses are emitted for the specific case of three proton beams of 20, 80 and 100 MeV, and the pressure signal is then determined at different positions in the space. Several methods for the localization of the source from the signals measured or simulated are used and compared. The results of the location of all these acoustic sources show that an accuracy of the order of a millimetre or less is possible, that is, the precision necessary for proton therapy monitoring is being reached. |
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sciforum-022096 | Polysilicon MEMS sensors: sensitivity to sub-micron imperfections | , , | N/A |
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The drive towards miniaturization in polysilicon MEMS industry leads unavoidably to question the hypothesis of homogeneity commonly accepted for continuum mechanics. Silicon grain morphology and orientation eventually influences the mechanical response of MEMS devices, when critical structural components (such as e.g. suspension springs) shrink. Moreover, the deep reactive-ion etching process, leading to the so-called over-etch, whose relevance is more and more increasing when referred to dimensions comparable with the grain size, affects the accuracy of the geometrical layout. Under these conditions, a spread in the working operational behavior of the devices is expected, which is obviously a matter of concern both for MEMS design and reliability. While this consequence is well known and expected, the quantification of the aforementioned spread is far to be under control, both in design practice and theory. In this work, through Monte Carlo analyses on statistical volume elements we show the effect of the grain morphology and orientation on the elastic effective properties of polysilicon beams constituting critical MEMS components. The extensive numerical investigation is summarized through statistical (lognormal) distributions for the elastic properties as a function of grain size morphology, quantifying therefore not only the expected mean values but also the also the spread around them. These (analytical) statistical distributions represent a simple while rigorous alternative to cumbersome numerical analyses. Their utility is testified through the analysis of a statically indeterminate MEMS structure, quantifying the possible initial offset away from the designed configuration due to residual stresses arising from the production process. |
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Conference Schedule
Abstract Submission: 10 September 2018 1 October 2018
Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2018 5 October 2018
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2018
Conference Open: 15-30 November 2018
A. Chemo and Biosensors
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Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr. Francesco Ciucci, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
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B. Physical Sensors
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Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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C. Sensors networks
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Dr. Francisco Falcone, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
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D. Applications
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Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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S1. Smart Cities
Sensors, sensor networks and the information they provide are the fundamental building block of smart cities and everything they have to offer toward improving the quality of life. This session encourages researchers worldwide to share their sensors and applications related to smart cities as we build the urban future of tomorrow. Topics are not limited to but could include submissions related to:
- Smart buildings and district heating/cooling
- Smart grids
- Smart water
- Environmental monitoring
- Transport, infrastructure & mobility
- Internet of Things (IoT) and protocols they operate within
- Sensors to empower citizens and improve quality of life
- Sensors to improve and make efficient public services and emergency services
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Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
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S2. Smart Sensing Systems and Structures
Trends emerging in engineering and micro-system applications such as the development of sensorial materials show a growing demand for distributed autonomous computing in sensor networks consisting of miniaturized low-power smart sensors embedded in technical structures. A Sensor Network is composed of nodes capable of sensor processing and communication. Smart Systems are composed of more complex networks (and networks of networks) differing significantly in computational power and available resources. They provide higher level information processing that maps the raw sensor data to condensed information. They can provide, for example, Internet connectivity of perceptive systems (body area networks...). These smart systems unite the traditionally separated sensing, aggregation, and application levels, offering a more unified design approach and more generic and unified architectures. Smart systems glue software and hardware components to an extended operational unit.
Smart can be defined on different operational and processing levels and having different goals in mind. One aspect is the adaptivity and reliability in the presence of sensor, communication, node, and network failures that should not compromise the trust and quality of the computed information, for example, the output of a Structural Health Monitoring System (SHM). A Smart System can be considered on node, network, and network of network level. Another aspect of "smartness" is information processing with inaccurate or incomplete models (mechanical, technical, physical) requiring machine learning approaches, either supervised with training at design-time or unsupervised based on reward learning at run-time.
Growing system complexity requires an increase in autonomy of distributed data processing systems, addressed, for example, by the deployment of mobile multi-agent systems carrying and processing information. Self-organizing systems are one major approach to solve complex tasks by decomposing them into smaller and simpler task performed by a large group of individuals.
Smart "Functional" Structures extend classical perceptive systems with actuators responding to changes in the environment or load conditions in real-time, enabling Reactive Perceptive Systems.
Topics included but not limited to are:
- Software engineering for sensing applications and sensor clouds
- Data mining in sensing applications
- Autonomous computing systems
- Multi-agent systems and intelligent computing
- Machine learning supporting sensing applications
- Ubiquitous smart systems and applications
- Sensor cloud, cluster and grid computing
- Internet of Things
- Human-computer, human-sensing, and human-machine interaction
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks
- Service-orientated information processing and computing
- Reliable and fault-tolerant system design and algorithms
- Platform design and architectures
- Active perceptive systems coupling sensing + actuation including robotic systems
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Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Dr. Stefan Bosse, Department of Computer Science, Workgroup Robotics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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S3. Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks
Structural health monitoring of aerospace, civil and mechanical structures and components is becoming increasingly relevant to minimize maintenance costs, to enable an effective preventive conservation and to provide additional layers of safety for the users. This session focuses on the progress of existing or novel sensing technologies including synergies among sensing approaches and algorithms for structural diagnosis and prognosis. All sensing mechanisms including piezoelectrics, piezoresistive, electrostrictives, magnetostrictives, shape memory alloys or polymers and optical and others are included in this session. The presentations will highlight experimental studies and computational approaches that include applications. Data fusion, machine learning, networking and computing of large amounts of data that are geared towards structural health monitoring applications are also encouraged in this session.
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Dr. Filippo Ubertini, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Dr. Jandro L. Abot, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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S4. Wearable Sensors
The market and the applications of wearable sensors are rapidly growing thanks to the widespread availability of miniaturized sensors having reduced power consumption and wide interfacing capabilities. Relevant applications of wearable sensors can be found in our everyday life both for scientific and non-scientific purposes, such as the monitoring of physiological parameters for heath and for fitness assessment. Perspective authors are invited to submit original contributions concerning all the aspects of wearable sensors. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Development and advances of sensor technology for wearable systems: inertial, bio-chemical, optical, …
- power management and energy harvesting
- flexible sensors and related electronics and circuits
- Characterization and calibration of wearable sensors
- textile integration of sensors and electronics
- wearable sensor interfaces, wireless communications and networks
- smart wearable sensors
- wearable sensor for e-health, security , sport and gaming
- activity and fitness trackers
- smartwatches and smartwatches applications
- sensor integration with smartphones
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Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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