Prosthetic Hand Based on Human Hand Anatomy Controlled by Surface Electromyography and Artificial Neural Network by Larisa Dunai, Isabel Seguí Verdú, Dinu Turcanu, Viorel Bostan

“…To validate the method, 100 signals for three gestures with 64 samples each signal have been recorded from 2 users with OYMotion sensors and 100 signals for three gestures from 4 users with the MyWare sensors. …”
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User Adaptive and Context-Aware Smart Home Using Pervasive and Semantic Technologies by Aggeliki Vlachostergiou, Georgios Stratogiannis, George Caridakis, George Siolas, Phivos Mylonas

“…Context information is collected via sensors and corresponds to various aspects of the pervasive interaction such as temperature and humidity, but also smart city sensors and services. …”
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Active Vibration Suppression of a 3-DOF Flexible Parallel Manipulator Using Efficient Modal Control by Quan Zhang, Jiamei Jin, Jianhui Zhang, Chunsheng Zhao

“…Modal filters are developed to extract the modal displacements and velocities from the vibration sensors. Numerical simulation and vibration control experiments are conducted to verify the proposed dynamic model and controller. …”
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Effect of Pd and Au Sensitization of Bath Deposited Flowerlike TiO2 Thin Films on CO Sensing and Photocatalytic Properties by Ashok K. Singh, S. B. Patil, Umesh T. Nakate, K. V. Gurav

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Remote Sensing of Aboveground Biomass in Tropical Secondary Forests: A Review by J. M. Barbosa, E. N. Broadbent, M. D. Bitencourt

“…New remote sensing methods, including sensors, image processing, statistical methods, and uncertainty evaluations, are constantly being developed to estimate biophysical forest changes. …”
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Evaluation of Personal Protective Equipment Using Low-cost Aerosol Monitors by Alberto Baldelli, Andrew Poznikoff, Kevin Heieis, Robert Purdy

“…The low-cost sensors correlated well with the OPS used as a reference method and may provide a simple, low-cost, widely available alternative.…”
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PARAMETERS OF MINIATURE HALL ELEMENT WITH MAGNETIC FLOW CONCENTRATORS AS QUADRIPOLE by V. A. Yarmolovich

“…The parameters of the sensor such as a quadripole are evaluated.…”
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A Cyber-ITS Framework for Massive Traffic Data Analysis Using Cyber Infrastructure by Yingjie Xia, Jia Hu, Michael D. Fontaine

“…Traffic data is commonly collected from widely deployed sensors in urban areas. This brings up a new research topic, data-driven intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), which means to integrate heterogeneous traffic data from different kinds of sensors and apply it for ITS applications. …”
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Lamb Wave Directional Sensing with Piezoelectric Fiber Rosette in Structure Health Monitoring by Songlai Wang, Wanrong Wu, Yiping Shen, Hui Li, Binlong Tang

“…Directional piezoelectric sensors can detect the Lamb wave propagation direction to locate damage in structural health monitoring (SHM). …”
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New Trends in Robotics for Agriculture: Integration and Assessment of a Real Fleet of Robots by Luis Emmi, Mariano Gonzalez-de-Soto, Gonzalo Pajares, Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos

“…Computer-based sensors and actuators such as global positioning systems, machine vision, and laser-based sensors have progressively been incorporated into mobile robots with the aim of configuring autonomous systems capable of shifting operator activities in agricultural tasks. …”
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Measurement of Microvibration by Using Dual-Cavity Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer for Structural Health Monitoring by Dae-Hyun Kim, Jin-Hyuk Lee, Byung-Jun Ahn

“…Extensive researches have recently been performed to study structural integrity using structural vibration data measured by in-structure sensors. A fiber optic sensor is one of candidates for the in-structure sensors because it is low in cost, light in weight, small in size, resistant to EM interference, long in service life, and so forth. …”
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Experimental Evaluation of Precise Placement with Pushing Primitive Based on Cartesian Force Control by Jinseong Park, Jeong-Jung Kim, Doo-Yeol Koh

“…Modeling the exact contact friction between the gripper and the grasped object is challenging; therefore, instead of relying on a motion planning approach, we addressed the problem using a control method that leverages feedback from the external force information of the robot manipulator. Additional sensors such as external cameras or tactile sensors in the gripper are not required. …”
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SAILOR: perceptual anchoring for robotic cognitive architectures by Miguel Á. González-Santamarta, Francisco J. Rodrıguez-Lera, Vicente Matellan-Olivera, Virginia Riego del Castillo, Lidia Sánchez-González

“…In cognitive-based robots, this process of transforming sub-symbolic data generated by sensors to obtain and maintain symbolic knowledge is still an open problem. …”
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Temperature Profile Measurement in Simulated Fuel Assembly Structure with Wire-Mesh Technology by Hiroki Takiguchi, Masahiro Furuya, Takahiro Arai

“…In this study, we applied the principle of the wire-mesh sensor technology used in the void fraction measurement to the temperature measurement and developed a simulated fuel assembly (bundle) test loop with installing the temperature profile sensors. …”
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A Brain-Computer Interface for Teleoperation of a Semiautonomous Mobile Robotic Assistive System Using SLAM by Vidya Nandikolla, Bryan Ghoslin, Kevin Matsuno, Daniel A. Medina Portilla

“…The implementation of sensors and the camera systems enable both the mobile base and the arm to be semiautonomous. …”
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Application of MEMS technology in anti-electromagnetic radiation maternity clothes: state of the art and future perspectives by Ye-Cheng Luo, Qingmei Bai, Piotr Skrzypacz

“…Subsequently, the role of MEMS in maternity clothing is detailed, including the real-time monitoring of radiation via sensors, the enhancement of fabric shielding through electrospinning and material deposition, and the realization of intelligent functions such as micro-actuators and communication modules. …”
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Blockchain-IoT Healthcare Applications and Trends: A Review by Wafaa A. N. A. Al-Nbhany, Ammar T. Zahary, Asma A. Al-Shargabi

“…This review addresses IoT-based blockchain types and technologies, healthcare applications, sensors, hardware tools, application databases, programming languages, software tools, challenges and open issues, and solutions with their advantages and limitations. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Waste Classification with Transfer Learning Using EfficientNet-B0 Model by Risfendra Risfendra, Gheri Febri Ananda, Herlin Setyawan

“…Conventional techniques that use inductive and capacitive proximity sensors exhibit limitations in accuracy and flexibility for the detection of various types of waste. …”
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Vision-Based Damage Detection Method Using Multi-Scale Local Information Entropy and Data Fusion by Yiming Zhang, Zili Xu, Guang Li, Cun Xin

“…Low-spatial-resolution measurements from contact sensors and excessive measurement noise have impeded the implementation of vibration-based damage detection. …”
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Pedestrian navigation: how can inertial measurment units assist smartphones? by I. A. Chistyakov, I. V. Grishov, A. A. Nikulin, M. V. Pikhletsky, I. B. Gartseev

“…The advantages of the approach are the use of inexpensive sensors and the simplicity of the presented method. …”
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