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A simple measuring method for acquiring the radiation pattern of an ultrawide band Vivaldi antenna is presented. The measuring is performed by combining two identical Vivaldi antennas and some of the intrinsic properties of a stepped-frequency continue wave radar (SFCW radar) in the
range from 1.0 GHz to 6.0 GHz. A stepper-motor provided the azimuthal rotation for one of the antennas from 0 ◦ to 360 ◦. The tests have been performed within the conventional environment (laboratory / office) without using an anechoic chamber or absorbing materials. Special measuring devices have not been used either. This method has been tested with different pairs of Vivaldi antennas and it can be also used for different ones (with little or no change in the system), as long as their operational
bandwidth is within the frequency range of the SFCW radar.
Keywords — SFCW Radar, Antenna Gain Characterization,
Azimuthal Radiation Pattern
Electronic pills, smart capsules or miniaturized microsystems swallowed by human beings or animals for various biomedical and diagnostic applications are growing rapidly in the last years. This paper searched out the important existing electronic pills in the market and prototypes in research centers. Further objective of this research is to develop a technology platform with enhanced feature to cover the drawback of most
capsules. The designed telemetry unit is a synchronous bidirectional communication block using continuous phase DQPSK of 115 kHz low carrier frequency for inductive data transmission suited for human body energy transfer. The communication system can assist the electronic pill to trigger an actuator for drug delivery, to record temperature, or to measure pH of the body. It consists additionally to a 32bit processor, memory, external peripheries, and detection facility. The complete system is designed to fit small-size mass medical application with low power consumption, size of 7x25mm. The system is designed, simulated and emulated on FPGA.
In short-reach connections, large-diameter multimode fibres allow for robust and easy connections. Unfortunately, their propagation properties depend on the excitation conditions. We propose a launching technique using a fibre stub that can tolerate fabrication tolerances in terms of tilts and off-sets to a large extent. A study of the influence of displaced connectors along the transmission link shows that the power distributions approach a steady-state power distribution very similar to the initial distribution established by the proposed launching scheme.
Air traffic control today still works primarily with classical sensors like primary and Secondary Surveillance Radars (PSR, MSSR, Mode-S) [1]. Upcoming is a new technology, ADS (Automatic Dependent Surveillance), which derives positional information from a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and distributes this data together with additional information from the on-board Flight Management System (FMS) to other aircraft (air-to-air) and to ADS groundstations (air-to-ground). [2] Because the transmission of the data takes place on a shared broadcasting media, like the 1090 MHz Extended Squitter (ES) channel, the technology is also referred to as ADS-Broadcast (ADS-B).
The Metering Bus, also known as M-Bus, is a European standard EN13757-3 for reading out metering devices, like electricity, water, gas, or heat meters. Although real-life M-Bus networks can reach a significant size and complexity, only very simple protocol analyzers are available to observe and maintain such networks. In order to provide developers and installers with the ability to analyze the real bus signals easily, a web-based monitoring tool for the M-Bus has been designed and implemented. Combined with a physical bus interface it allows for measuring and recording the bus signals. For this at first a circuit has been developed, which transforms the voltage and current-modulated M-Bus signals to a voltage signal that can be read by a standard ADC and processed by an MCU. The bus signals and packets are displayed using a web server, which analyzes and classifies the frame fragments. As an additional feature an oscilloscope functionality is included in order to visualize the physical signal on the bus. This paper describes the development of the read-out circuit for the Wired M-Bus and the data recovery.
This Master's Thesis discusses intelligent sensor networks considering autonomous sensor placement strategies and system health management. Sensor networks for an intelligent system design process have been researched recently. These networks consist of a distributed collective of sensing units, each with the abilities of individual sensing and computation. Such systems can be capable of self-deployment and must be scalable, long-lived and robust. With distributed sensor networks, intelligent sensor placement for system design and online system health management are attractive areas of research. Distributed sensor networks also cause optimization problems, such as decentralized control, system robustness and maximization of coverage in a distributed system. This also includes the discovery and analysis of points of interest within an environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate a method to control sensor placement in a world with several sources and multiple types of information autonomously. This includes both controlling the movement of sensor units and filtering of the gathered information depending on individual properties to increase system performance, defined as a good coverage. Additionally, online system health management was examined in this study regarding the case of agent failures and autonomous policy reconfiguration if sensors are added to or removed from the system. Two different solution strategies were devised, one where the environment was fully observable, and one with only partial observability. Both strategies use evolutionary algorithms based on artificial neural networks for developing control policies. For performance measurement and policy evaluation, different multiagent objective functions were investigated. The results of the study show that in the case of a world with multiple types of information, individual control strategies performed best because of their abilities to control the movement of a sensor entity and to filter the sensed information. This also includes system robustness in case of sensor failures where other sensing units must recover system performance. Additionally, autonomous policy reconfiguration after adding or removing of sensor agents was successful. This highlights that intelligent sensor agents are able to adapt their individual control policies considering new circumstances.
Deutschland hat nicht zuletzt durch seine zentrale Lage eine führende Rolle im Bereich der Transportlogistik in Europa übernommen. Allerdings stehen die großen Logistikunternehmen in den letzten Jahren zunehmend vor neuen Herausforderungen. Zum einen steigt die Menge zu transportierender Güter jährlich, zum anderen entstanden durch Verschmelzungen großer Logistikunternehmen wie z. B. Deutsche Post, Danzas und Exel, UPS und Fritz riesige Fahrzeugflotten, deren effiziente Planung die Unternehmen vor enorme Probleme stellt. Die einzige Möglichkeit, diese meist heterogenen, also aus vielen verschiedenen Verkehrsmitteln bestehenden Flotten mit herkömmlichen Mitteln effizient zu planen, ist die Aufteilung in (regionale) Geschäftsbereiche. Dadurch können viele Synergieeffekte nicht genutzt werden, was unter anderem zu unnötig hohen Transportkilometerleistungen und Leerfahrten führt. Mit Hilfe agentenbasierter Systeme können heute schon Kosteneinsparungen von 3 – 6 % bei homogenen Verkehrsmitteln erzielt werden. Das Einsparpotenzial dürfte bei heterogenen Flotten ähnlich hoch, wenn nicht noch etwas höher sein. Allerdings liefern derzeit agentenbasierte Systeme für heterogene Flotten noch keine zufriedenstellenden Ergebnisse. Durch die Kombination der beiden vorrangig für die Transportoptimierung eingesetzten Techniken agentenbasierte (bottomup) Optimierung und der klassischen (topdown)Optimierung soll auch das Einsparpotenzial von heterogenen Flotten realisiert werden. Diese Optimierung ist Gegenstand des Attractive Forschungsprojekts, das von August 2009 bis Juli 2012 im Rahmen des Programms ingenieurNachwuchs gefördert wird.
An Ultra-Low-Power RFID/NFC Frontend IC Using 0.18 μm CMOS Technology for Passive Tag Applications
(2018)
Battery-less passive sensor tags based on RFID or NFC technology have achieved much popularity in recent times. Passive tags are widely used for various applications like inventory control or in biotelemetry. In this paper, we present a new RFID/NFC frontend IC (integrated circuit) for 13.56 MHz passive tag applications. The design of the frontend IC is compatible with the standard ISO 15693/NFC 5. The paper discusses the analog design part in details with a brief overview of the digital interface and some of the critical measured parameters. A novel approach is adopted for the demodulator design, to demodulate the 10% ASK (amplitude shift keying) signal. The demodulator circuit consists of a comparator designed with a preset offset voltage. The comparator circuit design is discussed in detail. The power consumption of the bandgap reference circuit is used as the load for the envelope detection of the ASK modulated signal. The sub-threshold operation and low-supply-voltage are used extensively in the analog design—to keep the power consumption low. The IC was fabricated using 0.18 μm CMOS technology in a die area of 1.5 mm × 1.5 mm and an effective area of 0.7 mm2. The minimum supply voltage desired is 1.2 V, for which the total power consumption is 107 μW. The analog part of the design consumes only 36 μW, which is low in comparison to other contemporary passive tags ICs. Eventually, a passive tag is developed using the frontend IC, a microcontroller, a temperature and a pressure sensor. A smart NFC device is used to readout the sensor data from the tag employing an Android-based application software. The measurement results demonstrate the full passive operational capability. The IC is suitable for low-power and low-cost industrial or biomedical battery-less sensor applications. A figure-of-merit (FOM) is proposed in this paper which is taken as a reference for comparison with other related state-of-the-art researches.
Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wurde im Labor Telekommunikationstechnik der Hochschule Offenburg ein flexibel konfigurierbares Funknetz nach dem ZigBee-Standard aufgebaut. Mit Hilfe diverser Messgeräte und Analyse-Tools wurden die wesentlichen Performance Parameter dieses Funknetzes unter realen Betriebsbedingungen evaluiert. So wurden z.B. Erkenntnisse über die Empfängerempfindlichkeit, die effektiv erreichbare Datenrate sowie das Interferenzpotential gewonnen, die Voraussetzungen für die optimale Nutzung dieser neuen Funktechnologie sind.
Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wurde im Labor Telekommunikationstechnik der Hochschule Offenburg die Übertragungsqualität von Mehrantennensystemen durch theoretische Analysen und Simulationen analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich bereits in der ersten Projektphase bei einfachen Mehrantennenkonfigurationen mit einer Sendeantenne und mehreren Empfangsantennen wie aufgrund von Antennendiversität bei verschiedenen Kombinationsstrategien der Empfangssignale sich die Übertragungsqualität bei Rayleigh Fading deutlich verbessert.