Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Sensors and Sensors Network.- Analysis of Hardware Encryption Versus Software Encryption on Wireless Sensor Network Motes.- Development and Experiment of Networked Control Systems with Congestion Control.- Data Messaging and Control in Sensor-Actuator Networks using PowerBus Technology.- Gas/Bio Sensors.- Remarks on Emotion Recognition Using Breath Gas Sensing System.- Electrochemically Synthesised Pd- and Au-Nanoparticles as Sensing Layers in NOx-Sensitive Field Effect Devices.- Phthalocyanine Functionalized Hybrids as Receptors for Enhanced Gas/Bio Sensing.- A Comparison of the Gas Sensing Properties of Purified and Platinum Decorated Chemical Vapour Deposition Grown Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes.- Electrical Sensing of Biochemicals using Macroporous Silicon.- Saw Sensors.- Combined Infrared and Acoustic Beacon Tracker and its Application on an Autonomous Following Vehicle.- Electrostatic Microactuator Design Using Surface Acoustic Wave Devices.- Wide Band Linearization of a Millimetre-Wave, Linear Frequency Modulated Radar Employing a Surface Acoustic Wave, Delay Line Discriminator.- Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors.- Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Piezoelectric Actuators in Co-Located Configuration for Active Vibration Control Applications.- A Transmit Reflect Detection System for Fibre Bragg Grating Acoustic Emission and Transmission Sensors.- Magnetic Sensor.- A Real-Time Tracking System for an Endoscopic Capsule using Multiple Magnetic Sensors.- Ultrasonic.- High Frequency Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Porous Aluminium.- Capacitive Sensors.- Capacitance-Based Sensing of Material Moisture in Bulk Solids: Applications and Restrictions.- Sensors Based on CNT.- The Design and Performance of Tactile/Proximity Sensors Made of Carbon Microcoils.- Novel Sensors Techniques.- Post-Earthquake Pipeline Leak Detection Technologies.- Multiple-Rangefinders Calibration Based on Light-Section Method Using Spheres.- An Adaptive Wiener Filter for Automatic Speech Recognition in a Car Environment with Non-Stationary Noise.- 3D-Shape Recognition Based Tactile Sensor.- Development of A Low Cost Compact Low Profile Phase Array Antenna for RFID Applications.- Implementation and Characterization of a Novel Acoustic Imaging through Beamformers for Automotive Applications.- Development of a Smart Home for Elder-People Based on Wireless Sensors.- Optimisation of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method for Its Implementation in A Self-Mixing Laser Displacement Sensor.