The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) measures vertical profiles of aerosol extinction, backscatter, and depolarization at both 532 nm and 1064 nm. In March of 2006 the HSRL participated in the Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations (MILAGRO) campaign along with several other suites of instruments deployed on both aircraft an...

This report covers the development of a prototype low-cost collision warning system for short-range safeguarding (less than 5 meters) for driving in urban environments. Special interest is placed on using small, simple and cheap smart sensor modules that together, form a distributed sensing network whose overall performance exceeds the sum of the individual sensors. A “safety by the meter” appr...

These days, many marine autonomous environment monitoring networks are set up in the world. These systems take advantage of existing superstructures such as offshore platforms, lightships, piers, breakwaters or are placed on specially designed buoys or underwater oceanographic structures. These systems commonly use various sensors to measure parameters such as dissolved oxygen, turbidity, condu...

Wireless sensor networks are commonly used to monitor various environmental conditions. Possible geometries for the region covered by a sensor include disks, wedges, and rays, among others, depending on the function of the sensor. In this paper we consider a network consisting of ray sensors deployed to detect intruders traversing a path, not necessarily straight, from a source α to a destinati...

This paper uses a new position sensor less drive for brushless DC (BLDC) motors. In conventional sensor less control methods such as the back-EMF detection method, the performance is high only at a high speed range due to the fact that the magnitude of the back-EMF is dependent on the rotor speed. A solution is derived that estimates the rotor position by using an unknown input observer over a ...

During the Shallow Water 2006 Experiment, SW06, a power supply for seabed-moored oceanographic equipment suffered an accidental explosion. The equipment was located on the New Jersey Shelf, 175 kilometers south-east of New York. Acoustic signals emitted by the explosion were detected by hydrophone sensors that form part of the International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive Test-Ban ...

Wafer-type PZT transducers are very effective as active sensors for Lamb wave studies in elastic plates and in steel bridge girders. It has been demonstrated that a single transducer can be used in pulse-echo mode, transmitting a transient waveform and then detecting return signals echoing from boundaries, irregularities, and flaws such as cracks. We describe here an inductively-coupled system ...

In this work a magnetoelectric (ME) current sensor design based on a magnetoelectric effect is presented and discussed. The resonant and non-resonant type of ME current sensors are considered. Theoretical calculations of the ME current sensors by the equivalent circuit method were conducted. The application of different sensors using the new effects, for example, the ME effect, is made possible...

For the students learning and training in the field of nanotechnology and microsystem engineering within the framework of blended learning paradigm we need high quality content; efficient learning technology; means of students motivation; evaluation tools. We propose an intelligent learning and testing system based on mixed diagnostic tests for effective comprehension of a number of subjects wi...