Introduction: Understanding what properties of the human hand can to be incorporated in robotic hands has been an active area of investigation for a long time. Good strides have been made in designing robotic hands and a number of working dexterous robotic hands have also been built [1, 2]. However, the use of touch sensory (both, cutaneous/tactile/extrinsic as well as kinesthetic/intrinsic) in...

Ozone, a strong oxidizing gas, has dramatically increased its concentration in the troposphere during the last decades. Since high O3 concentrations are hazardous to human health, the development of effective methods and economic devices to detect this gas is an urgent need. In this frame, In2O3 is well known as an n-type ozone sensitive and selective material, generally displaying its optimal ...

Metallic nanostructures have recently been demonstrated to improve the performance of optical sensing and imaging techniques due to their remarkable localization capability of electromagnetic fields. Particularly, the zero-dimensional nanostructure, commonly called a nanoparticle, is a promising component for optical measurement systems due to its attractive features, e.g., ease of fabrication,...

Ozone, a strong oxidizing gas, has dramatically increased its concentration in the troposphere during the last decades. Since high O3 concentrations are hazardous to human health, the development of effective methods and economic devices to detect this gas is an urgent need. In this frame, In2O3 is well known as an n-type ozone sensitive and selective material, generally displaying its optimal ...

We consider spectrum sensing and Non-Contiguous OFDM (NC-OFDM) with interference avoidance to facilitate opportunistic secondary transmission. In this application protecting an incumbent primary user of the spectrum from secondary emissions is a key design requirement. We present an adaptive sense-and-carefully-transmit system which integrates a spectrum sensing module with an NC-OFDM transmitt...

The impact of enterprise systems (ES) on organisational agility (OA) is an under-researched area. Given the trends that most large organisations are moving towards ES and investing heavily on ES infrastructure and the increasing demand for agility, lack of research on ES and OA is a critical oversight. Using insights from the resource based view and dynamic capability theories; this paper argue...

Accurate correction of the corrupting effects of the atmosphere and the water’s surface are essential in order to obtain the optical, biological and biogeochemical properties of the water from satellite-based multiand hyper-spectral sensors. The major challenges now for atmospheric correction are the conditions of turbid coastal and inland waters and areas in which there are strongly-absorbing ...

A methodology for the predictive modeling of smart structures with in-situ sensing capability is presented and discussed. First, the smart structures concept is briefly reviewed. Then, self-sensing smart structures with in-situ sensing capabilities are introduced. Focus is placed on active sensing methods using ultrasonic guided waves in thin-wall structures. The challenges of modeling ultrason...

Widely distributed mobile vehicles wherein various sensing devices and wireless communication interfaces are installed bring vehicular participatory sensing into practice. However, the heterogeneity of vehicles in terms of sensing capability and mobility, and the participants' expectations on the incentives blackmake the collection of comprehensive sensing data a challenging task. A sensing dat...