Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827021
Mohamed E. M. Salem, Ruoshi Wen, Maggie Xu, Liu Yan, Ma Xiang, Qiang Wang
The human hand is a very complex mechanism which dealing with the external environment with a high range of degree of freedoms to allowing it to do a big variety of movements. Humanoid robotic hands are robotic hands that resemble human hands, especially with respect to their shape and their kinematic abilities. Recently, soft actuators are drawing attention in robotics field due to their high flexibility, lightness, ease of fabrication and its low cost. In this paper, we present a novel soft humanoid pneumatic hand which consists of nine soft bending actuators assembled together in one hand which can be matching the mobility of the human hand as closely as possible and verify this ability by using the hand sign language configurations. Direct 3D printing technique has been presented in the fabrication process of the soft pneumatic hand as a new technique by using a TPU 3D printer filament. Soft actuators characterization such as the bending performance is presented by using the advantage of ABAQUS/CAE software and experimental tests. All control actions were achieved by using Arduino Mega board supported with MATLAB SIMULINK model working with graphical user interface computer application (GUI).
{"title":"A Novel Underactuated Soft Humanoid Hand For Hand Sign Language","authors":"Mohamed E. M. Salem, Ruoshi Wen, Maggie Xu, Liu Yan, Ma Xiang, Qiang Wang","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827021","url":null,"abstract":"The human hand is a very complex mechanism which dealing with the external environment with a high range of degree of freedoms to allowing it to do a big variety of movements. Humanoid robotic hands are robotic hands that resemble human hands, especially with respect to their shape and their kinematic abilities. Recently, soft actuators are drawing attention in robotics field due to their high flexibility, lightness, ease of fabrication and its low cost. In this paper, we present a novel soft humanoid pneumatic hand which consists of nine soft bending actuators assembled together in one hand which can be matching the mobility of the human hand as closely as possible and verify this ability by using the hand sign language configurations. Direct 3D printing technique has been presented in the fabrication process of the soft pneumatic hand as a new technique by using a TPU 3D printer filament. Soft actuators characterization such as the bending performance is presented by using the advantage of ABAQUS/CAE software and experimental tests. All control actions were achieved by using Arduino Mega board supported with MATLAB SIMULINK model working with graphical user interface computer application (GUI).","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129108364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827080
Emmanuel Leite de Medeiros, C. A. D. S. Filho, F. Carvalho, R. Cruz, C. Moreira
This paper presents the development of a data acquisition system that uses a hybrid communication network based on Long Range (LoRa) modules. The goal of the system is to provide the gathered information over long distances. The proposed hybrid structure minimizes the costs involved with the usage of LoRa transmitters, deploying a wired network to interconnect the sensors and actuators in the vicinity of the transmission point. This structure is compatible with the main existing industrial communication protocols, facilitating the connection with the already installed networks. The system was conceived for a hydraulic plant, aiming its instrumentation as a form of optimization of water distribution systems monitoring. In this paper the performance of LoRa module is analysed in terms of the maximum distance achieved to forward the data gathered with acceptable quality. The acquired results demonstrated the viability of the proposed solution for remote and local monitoring of water distribution systems.
{"title":"Data Acquisition System Development for a Hydraulic Plant using Hybrid Communication Network based on LoRa","authors":"Emmanuel Leite de Medeiros, C. A. D. S. Filho, F. Carvalho, R. Cruz, C. Moreira","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827080","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a data acquisition system that uses a hybrid communication network based on Long Range (LoRa) modules. The goal of the system is to provide the gathered information over long distances. The proposed hybrid structure minimizes the costs involved with the usage of LoRa transmitters, deploying a wired network to interconnect the sensors and actuators in the vicinity of the transmission point. This structure is compatible with the main existing industrial communication protocols, facilitating the connection with the already installed networks. The system was conceived for a hydraulic plant, aiming its instrumentation as a form of optimization of water distribution systems monitoring. In this paper the performance of LoRa module is analysed in terms of the maximum distance achieved to forward the data gathered with acceptable quality. The acquired results demonstrated the viability of the proposed solution for remote and local monitoring of water distribution systems.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132405227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826829
Hoyong Lee, Choe Eunho, Jinyi Lee, Gyejo Jung
A system that can calculate the abrasive corrosion and wall thinning of water-cooled wall tubes of boiler by measuring magnetic flux change was developed. A magnetizer, which is curved according to the cross-sectional shape of the tube, membrane and weld line, magnetizes a part of the water-cooled wall in the axial direction. At this time, the magnitude of the magnetic flux changes in a region where the thickness becomes thinner. This change in magnetic flux is measured by a magnetic sensor array deflected to one side from the center of the magnetizer.
{"title":"Magnetic Flux Leakage Measurement System for Nondestructive Testing of Water-Cooled Wall","authors":"Hoyong Lee, Choe Eunho, Jinyi Lee, Gyejo Jung","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826829","url":null,"abstract":"A system that can calculate the abrasive corrosion and wall thinning of water-cooled wall tubes of boiler by measuring magnetic flux change was developed. A magnetizer, which is curved according to the cross-sectional shape of the tube, membrane and weld line, magnetizes a part of the water-cooled wall in the axial direction. At this time, the magnitude of the magnetic flux changes in a region where the thickness becomes thinner. This change in magnetic flux is measured by a magnetic sensor array deflected to one side from the center of the magnetizer.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132993659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826981
G. Scandurra, G. Giusi, C. Ciofi
DC coupled transimpedance amplifiers based on operational amplifiers are common in the field of noise measurements on electron devices. The current required to bias the device under test typically flows through a resistor whose noise adds to the background noise of the amplifier with a contribution inversely proportional to the resistance value. The supply voltage of the circuit (typically a few volts) sets a limit to the maximum resistance for a given bias current and, hence, a minimum to the background noise that can be reached. To address this issue we propose to employ integrated solar cells to make available in the circuit voltages in the tens of volts range from which bias currents can be sourced with larger resistances leading to lower background noise. We propose the design and preliminary testing of such a system that is intended for applications in which bias currents are in the tens of nA range.
{"title":"A programmable bias current compensation approach in current noise measurement applications","authors":"G. Scandurra, G. Giusi, C. Ciofi","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826981","url":null,"abstract":"DC coupled transimpedance amplifiers based on operational amplifiers are common in the field of noise measurements on electron devices. The current required to bias the device under test typically flows through a resistor whose noise adds to the background noise of the amplifier with a contribution inversely proportional to the resistance value. The supply voltage of the circuit (typically a few volts) sets a limit to the maximum resistance for a given bias current and, hence, a minimum to the background noise that can be reached. To address this issue we propose to employ integrated solar cells to make available in the circuit voltages in the tens of volts range from which bias currents can be sourced with larger resistances leading to lower background noise. We propose the design and preliminary testing of such a system that is intended for applications in which bias currents are in the tens of nA range.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127980810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827087
S. Trivedy, M. Goyal, Madhusudhan Mishra, N. Verma, A. Mukherjee
Spirometry is the most common and effective way to diagnose various severe respiratory diseases such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma, occupational lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension. A variety of measurements can be taken and expounded from spirometry; Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), the maximal amount of air one can forcefully exhale in one second (FEV1) and the ratio FEV1/FVC are significant measurements to diagnose the problems with lung functionality (Fig. 1). The objective of this study was to accurately classify the abnormal spirometry using stacked autoencoder (SAE) based neural network by extracting the features from the flow-volume curve. Abnormal spirometry is decided based on the values of FEV1, FVC and the ratio of FEV1/FVC are less than the Lower Limit of Normal (LLN) [1], predicted from the standard reference equations [2].The proposed method shows accuracy of 96.57% for FEV1, 96.01% for FVC and 98.98% for the ratio FEV1/FVC.
{"title":"Classification of Spirometry Using Stacked Autoencoder based Neural Network","authors":"S. Trivedy, M. Goyal, Madhusudhan Mishra, N. Verma, A. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827087","url":null,"abstract":"Spirometry is the most common and effective way to diagnose various severe respiratory diseases such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma, occupational lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension. A variety of measurements can be taken and expounded from spirometry; Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), the maximal amount of air one can forcefully exhale in one second (FEV1) and the ratio FEV1/FVC are significant measurements to diagnose the problems with lung functionality (Fig. 1). The objective of this study was to accurately classify the abnormal spirometry using stacked autoencoder (SAE) based neural network by extracting the features from the flow-volume curve. Abnormal spirometry is decided based on the values of FEV1, FVC and the ratio of FEV1/FVC are less than the Lower Limit of Normal (LLN) [1], predicted from the standard reference equations [2].The proposed method shows accuracy of 96.57% for FEV1, 96.01% for FVC and 98.98% for the ratio FEV1/FVC.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123186859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826961
M. Carratù, C. Liguori, A. Pietrosanto, M. O’nils, J. Lundgren
In many industrial fields, the direct measurement of a specific parameter of interest can be too costly to be feasible. Using data from other parameters about the process, a data driven approach can instead be used for a cost-efficient estimation of the parameter of interest. For the Swedish forest industry, the measurement of the timber bundles volume sets the price for the customers. Volume is in this case an expensive parameter to measure, where manual measurements have been used as reference to a remote imaging estimation system involving operators. In this paper a data driven approach is presented for the estimation of timber bundles volume, using correlated features such as weight, date of cut, storage time etc., to demonstrate a costefficient software estimation system. The proposed approach, based on neural networks, shows comparable results to the existing remote estimation method when using a few features and even better performance when adding feature information from the timber harvesters.
{"title":"Data Fusion for Timber Bundle Volume Measurement","authors":"M. Carratù, C. Liguori, A. Pietrosanto, M. O’nils, J. Lundgren","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826961","url":null,"abstract":"In many industrial fields, the direct measurement of a specific parameter of interest can be too costly to be feasible. Using data from other parameters about the process, a data driven approach can instead be used for a cost-efficient estimation of the parameter of interest. For the Swedish forest industry, the measurement of the timber bundles volume sets the price for the customers. Volume is in this case an expensive parameter to measure, where manual measurements have been used as reference to a remote imaging estimation system involving operators. In this paper a data driven approach is presented for the estimation of timber bundles volume, using correlated features such as weight, date of cut, storage time etc., to demonstrate a costefficient software estimation system. The proposed approach, based on neural networks, shows comparable results to the existing remote estimation method when using a few features and even better performance when adding feature information from the timber harvesters.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126386893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826864
V. Magnago, L. Palopoli, D. Fontanelli, D. Macii, A. Motroni, P. Nepa, A. Buffi, B. Tellini
Indoor localisation is currently regarded as one of the most useful services offered to human beings and robotics agents, as it can support a variety of applications. Among all the possible sensing solutions developed to address this problem (which is usually made challenging by the complex, heterogeneous and crowded nature of indoor environments), RFID systems based on passive tags are very promising due to their relatively low cost and the ease of deployment. In this paper, a theoretical analysis of the localisation problem using Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID tags for mobile robots is considered. The feasibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated by analysing the local nonlinear observability of the system at hand, despite the inherent ambiguity of the phase of backscattered RF signals, which can be measured by a system installed on the moving agent. The validity of the analysis and the practicality of this localisation approach is further confirmed by using a position tracking estimator based on an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF).
{"title":"Robot Localisation based on Phase Measures of backscattered UHF-RFID Signals","authors":"V. Magnago, L. Palopoli, D. Fontanelli, D. Macii, A. Motroni, P. Nepa, A. Buffi, B. Tellini","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826864","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor localisation is currently regarded as one of the most useful services offered to human beings and robotics agents, as it can support a variety of applications. Among all the possible sensing solutions developed to address this problem (which is usually made challenging by the complex, heterogeneous and crowded nature of indoor environments), RFID systems based on passive tags are very promising due to their relatively low cost and the ease of deployment. In this paper, a theoretical analysis of the localisation problem using Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID tags for mobile robots is considered. The feasibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated by analysing the local nonlinear observability of the system at hand, despite the inherent ambiguity of the phase of backscattered RF signals, which can be measured by a system installed on the moving agent. The validity of the analysis and the practicality of this localisation approach is further confirmed by using a position tracking estimator based on an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF).","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126052773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827117
Yan Zhu, Qiaoqiao Zeng, L. Niu, Xiaoting Li, Ning Zhao, Lide Fang
Interfacial disturbance waves play a very important role in the mass, momentum and energy transport phenomena and modeling of gas-to-liquid momentum transfer and liquid film behavior in annular flow. The disturbance waves are not only the major source of entrained droplets, but also act as a roughness to the central gas flow and contribute to the frictional pressure drop in annular flow. In spite of their importance, majority of the experimental data available in literature on wave properties (wave velocity, wave frequency and wave spacing) are limited to near atmospheric conditions. In view of this, based on NIR technology, horizontal wet-gas annular flow is investigated by theoretical analysis and experimental verification in 50mm inner pipe diameter at five pressures $(0.1 sim 0.5$ MPa). Total 35 points under 7 groups flow conditions are selected for qualitative and quantitative research. By data analysis of wave velocity and wave frequency and the light signals analyses of probability density function and wavelet energy, the effect of pressure on the wave behavior is preliminary investigated and discussed.
{"title":"Effect of Pressure on the Wave Behavior in Horizontal Wet-gas Annular Flow","authors":"Yan Zhu, Qiaoqiao Zeng, L. Niu, Xiaoting Li, Ning Zhao, Lide Fang","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827117","url":null,"abstract":"Interfacial disturbance waves play a very important role in the mass, momentum and energy transport phenomena and modeling of gas-to-liquid momentum transfer and liquid film behavior in annular flow. The disturbance waves are not only the major source of entrained droplets, but also act as a roughness to the central gas flow and contribute to the frictional pressure drop in annular flow. In spite of their importance, majority of the experimental data available in literature on wave properties (wave velocity, wave frequency and wave spacing) are limited to near atmospheric conditions. In view of this, based on NIR technology, horizontal wet-gas annular flow is investigated by theoretical analysis and experimental verification in 50mm inner pipe diameter at five pressures $(0.1 sim 0.5$ MPa). Total 35 points under 7 groups flow conditions are selected for qualitative and quantitative research. By data analysis of wave velocity and wave frequency and the light signals analyses of probability density function and wavelet energy, the effect of pressure on the wave behavior is preliminary investigated and discussed.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"152 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120947115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827066
Yu Zhao, P. Ye, Jinpeng Song, Jie Meng, Kuojun Yang, Jian Gao
A deterministic description of bandwidth-interleaved (BI) system with offset, gain and time mismatches among subADCs is firstly developed in this paper. Based on the analysis, spurious spectra caused by gain and time mismatches are correlated with the input signal, while spurious spectra caused by offset mismatch are independent with the input signal but related to the frequency of the local oscillator in each subband. The analysed results can be used as a reference for calibration of mismatch errors among the subbands in BI systems.
{"title":"Explicit analysis of subADCs mismatch errors in band-interleaved ADC systems","authors":"Yu Zhao, P. Ye, Jinpeng Song, Jie Meng, Kuojun Yang, Jian Gao","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8827066","url":null,"abstract":"A deterministic description of bandwidth-interleaved (BI) system with offset, gain and time mismatches among subADCs is firstly developed in this paper. Based on the analysis, spurious spectra caused by gain and time mismatches are correlated with the input signal, while spurious spectra caused by offset mismatch are independent with the input signal but related to the frequency of the local oscillator in each subband. The analysed results can be used as a reference for calibration of mismatch errors among the subbands in BI systems.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121245068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826927
P. Kwiatkowski, R. Szplet
This paper presents a time-to-digital converter (TDC) with pseudo-segmented delay line implemented in 28 nm field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device (Kintex-7 XC7K160T, Xilinx). The TDC employs a carry chain based delay line wherein each tap is connected to multiple flip-flops. Proposed solution gives the same measurement resolution and comparable precision improvement as using multiple time coding lines (TCL) but allows to save logical resources available in FPGA chip. The TDC was tested in timestamps based time interval counter operating at 700 MHz clock and provides 1.1 ps resolution and 5 ps precision.
{"title":"Time-to-Digital Converter with Pseudo-Segmented Delay Line","authors":"P. Kwiatkowski, R. Szplet","doi":"10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/I2MTC.2019.8826927","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a time-to-digital converter (TDC) with pseudo-segmented delay line implemented in 28 nm field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device (Kintex-7 XC7K160T, Xilinx). The TDC employs a carry chain based delay line wherein each tap is connected to multiple flip-flops. Proposed solution gives the same measurement resolution and comparable precision improvement as using multiple time coding lines (TCL) but allows to save logical resources available in FPGA chip. The TDC was tested in timestamps based time interval counter operating at 700 MHz clock and provides 1.1 ps resolution and 5 ps precision.","PeriodicalId":132588,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131612593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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