Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends II (Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation Book 8)

This book is written for academic and industry professionals working in the field of sensing, instrumentation and related fields, and is positioned to give a snapshot of the current state of the art in sensing technology, particularly from the applied perspective. The book is intended to give a broad overview of the latest developments, in addition to discussing the process through which researchers go through in order to develop sensors, or related systems, which will become more widespread in the future Front Matter....Pages i-viii Cochlear Implant Electrode Improvement for Stimulation and Sensing....Pages 1-25 Machine Vision Based Techniques for Automatic Mango Fruit Sorting and Grading Based on Maturity Level and Size....Pages 27-46 Region Adaptive, Unsharp Masking Based Lanczos-3 Interpolation for 2-D Up-Sampling: Crisp-Rule Versus Fuzzy-Rule Based Approach....Pages 47-73 Gaze-Controlled Stereo Vision to Measure Position and Track a Moving Object: Machine Vision for Crane Control....Pages 75-93 Integrated Determination of Tea Quality Based on Taster’s Evaluation, Biochemical Characterization and Use of Electronics....Pages 95-117 Electronic Nose and Its Application to Microbiological Food Spoilage Screening....Pages 119-140 Multiclass Kernel Classifiers for Quality Estimation of Black Tea Using Electronic Nose....Pages 141-160 Electronic Nose Setup for Estimation of Rancidity in Cookies....Pages 161-187 Optimization of Sensor Array in Electronic Nose by Combinational Feature Selection Method....Pages 189-205 Exploratory Study on Aroma Profile of Cardamom by GC-MS and Electronic Nose....Pages 207-216 High Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Device for Toxic Vapor Detection: Prospects and Challenges....Pages 217-241 Electronic and Electromechanical Tester of Physiological Sensors....Pages 243-261 Back Matter....Pages 263-265 This book provides a broad overview of advanced sensor technologies. It addresses the identification, modeling, selection, operation and integration of a wide variety of sensors, and presents the concepts of different sensor technologies through simulation, design and real implementations