Preliminary Design Study to Implement Multipurpose Virtual Sensors

VLSI Design of Trusted Virtual Sensors

This work presents a Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design of trusted virtual sensors providing a minimum unitary cost and very good figures of size, speed and power consumption. The sensed variable is estimated by a virtual sensor based on a configurable and programmable PieceWise-Affine hyper-Rectangular (PWAR) model. An algorithm is presented to find the best values of the programmable ...

Multipurpose 3d Modelling for Virtual Clinical Interventions

In this paper we summarize the approaches we made motivated by multi-purposes to build up 3D surface and solid models having the input of 2D consecutive slices usually captured by computer tomography. As the presented work is a part of a system for simulating and evaluating virtual surgical interventions, high quality visualization is an essential issue among our tasks. Moreover, as we use vali...

On the design of capacitive sensors using flexible electrodes for multipurpose measurements.

This article evaluates the potential of capacitive measurements using flexible electrodes to access various physical quantities. These electrodes are made of a thin metallic film, typical thickness 0.2 microm, evaporated on a plastic substrate. Their large flexibility enables them to be mounted in complex geometries such as curved surfaces. In the configuration of planar condensers, using a ver...

Mechanism Design: How to Implement Social Goals*

Mechanism Design: How to Implement Social Goals1

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the “engineering” side of economic theory. Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate. But in mechanism design theory the direction of inquiry is reversed. We begin by identifying our desired outcome or s...