Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1109/mim.2023.10238366
R. Dyer
In November 2021, the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) approved the establishment of the IEEE TAB Award for Society/Council Impact in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This award is administered and given annually by the TAB Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and was given for the very first time in 2022.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217026
Huan Song, Xianjian Zou
Aiming at the problem of real-time visualization analysis of the internal structural morphological characteristics for in-situsoil-rock mixture, an experimental system for the ultrasonic transmission imaging analysis of soil-rock mixture was constructed, and a morphological reconstruction method of internal structures for the in-situ soil-rock mixture was proposed by using multiple ultrasonic profile images. The system device and its analysis method can obtain series of profile images of internal structures for insitu soil-rock mixture. First, the image processing method is used to analyze the characteristics of the imaging spots and the bright bands of the internal structure, and the feature map of the bright band in the image is obtained. Second, the ratio of pixel points in the non-zero region of bright spot band to whole pixel points in the feature map is obtained, and the ratio is taken as the pore space ratio of the dual structure in the soil-rock mixture. Last, the evaluation of pore space ratio and the reconstruction of boundary structure morphology inside the soil-rock mixture can be realized according to the feature map and the pore space ratio of light spot and bright band. This method effectively solves the real-time analysis and 3D reconstruction problems of soil-rock mixture structures when the simulation method is complicated and lacks the actual internal profile image or the measured structure data.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217024
Xianrui Li, Bin Xu, Xiaodong Zhang, Wen-Yao Ni
River suspended sediment content (sand content) is one of the most important hydrological parameters, and its measurement application in water resources is of great significance. In this paper, an online sand content measurement device is developed that is based on near-infrared short-wave scattering optical measurement at 850 nm wavelength to study the complex variation relationship between scattered light intensity and sand content. The sand content measurement method is obtained after several groups of experimental research, ensuring the sand content is in the range of 0–20 kg/m3, the relative error of measurement accuracy after calibration is less than 3.44%, and the uncertainty of $1.0148pm 0.0174 text{kg}/mathrm{m}^{3}$. The maximum relative error of field measurement accuracy is 9.84%, which meets the requirement of 10% set as a national standard. The research results have good application prospects in river and channel erosion control and automatic monitoring of water extraction for industry and agriculture.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217030
C. Spandonidis, Fotis Giannopoulos, Jerónimo Agulló, N. Tachos, Lars Frederiksen, Aarón Martín, Ramón González Carvajal
An active healthy workforce is a key determinant to sustainable economic and human development. As part of this ensemble, the aging workforce offers years of experience and wisdom to their workplaces, providing critical mentorship to younger workers or newly assigned employees. Among the most relevant chronic diseases hitting the aged person, visual ability is reducing at a rate of about 3% every year, threatening productivity and limiting the tasks they may be assigned. See Far smart glasses aim to develop a human-machine system that aids visually-impaired people, helping them to remain actively involved in professional life, sustain and renew their work and personal life-related skills, and support independent, active, healthy lifestyles. See Far glasses can enhance the user's vision by projecting an enhanced image of what the user sees within his/her field of view, counteracting several visual impairments that the user may experience and greatly improving his/her work performance. Such enhancements include image contrast and/or brightness modification, text and image magnification and more. The system is comprised of a pair of low-profile Augmented Reality (AR) lenses, a number of different sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, and a powerful processing unit that drives the lenses, processes sensor data and runs AI algorithms.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/mim.2023.10217028
James A. Smith, H. Ramos
This short column is to remind IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine readers about the technical and industrial opportunities offered by Technical Committee-01. The Nondestructive Evaluation and Industrial Inspection (NDE&II) technical committee was formed in 2018 to address the needs of the NDE community of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS). The NDE&II TC is designed to engage and cross-pollinate the technical and industrial communities. The resulting interactions will lead to technical innovations that solve industrial applications.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217029
Zaimin He, Lan Li, Runzhi Zhang, Juan Hou, Gongwei Xiao, Wei Guang, Jihai Zhang, Xiangyi He
Time transfer based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS) using precise point positioning (PPP) is a critical technique in universal time coordinated (UTC) calculation. PPP relies on precise satellite orbit and satellite clock offset products obtained through network solutions. Since August 2020, the Beidou global navigation satellite system (BDS-3) has provided GNSS users with the PPP product using PPP-B2b signal through three geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites instead of a network in the Asia-Pacific area. Network interruption will cause PPP reconvergence and terminate the time transfer, which hinders the application of PPP time transfer. The real-time PPP-B2b product broadcast by GEO satellites can be considered to solve the problem of interruption caused by network fluctuation in the field of real-time PPP. To promote the application of real-time PPP time comparison in UTC calculation and develop PPP-B2b application in time transfer, single-frequency (SF) PPP-B2b time transfer is investigated. Meanwhile, the treatment of ionospheric delay of SF PPP-B2b is crucial, and a GRAPHIC SF PPP-B2b model is proposed and validated in order to keep PPP-B2b network-independent. Data from two international atomic time (TAI) time-keeping laboratories and two international GNSS service (IGS) stations were used to analyze the accuracy in SF time comparison applications using the PPP-B2b product from common clock difference (CCD) and long-baseline time links. Results show that the SF PPP-B2b CCD sequences can be concentrated within 0.2 ns. The long-baseline time difference between SF time transfer using PPP-B2b product and dual-frequency (DF) time transfer using the final product fluctuated within 2 ns. In addition, the standard deviation (STD) values of PPP-B2b time comparison are mainly distributed at 0.5 ns. Meanwhile, only BDS and $text{BDS}+text{GPS}$ can achieve similar SF PPP-B2b time transfer accuracy.
基于全球导航卫星系统（GNSS）的精确点定位（PPP）时间传递是世界时间协调（UTC）计算中的一项关键技术。PPP依赖于通过网络解决方案获得的精确卫星轨道和卫星时钟偏移产品。自2020年8月以来，北斗全球导航卫星系统（BDS-3）通过三颗地球静止轨道卫星（GEO）而不是亚太地区的网络，向全球导航卫星网用户提供了使用PPP-B2b信号的PPP产品。网络中断会导致PPP重新聚合并终止时间转移，从而阻碍PPP时间转移的应用。GEO卫星实时广播的PPP-B2b产品可以考虑解决实时PPP领域因网络波动而造成的中断问题。为了促进实时PPP时间比较在UTC计算中的应用，并发展PPP-B2b在时间传递中的应用。同时，SF PPP-B2b电离层延迟的处理至关重要，为了保持PPP-B2b网络的独立性，提出并验证了GRAPHIC SF PPP-B2b模型。使用来自两个国际原子时（TAI）计时实验室和两个国际全球导航卫星系统服务（IGS）站的数据，使用来自通用时钟差（CCD）和长基线时间链路的PPP-B2b产品，分析SF时间比较应用的准确性。结果表明，SF-PPP-B2b CCD序列可以在0.2ns内集中。使用PPP-B2b产品的SF时间转移和使用最终产品的双频（DF）时间转移之间的长基线时间差在2ns内波动。此外，PPP-B2b时间比较的标准偏差（STD）值主要分布在0.5ns处。同时，只有BDS和$text{BDS}+text{GPS}$可以实现类似的SF PPP-B2b时间传递精度。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217027
F. Rodes, X. Hochart
Ultra high-Q ceramic chip capacitors exhibit quality factors (Q) higher than 1000. The Resonant Coaxial-Line, manufactured by Boonton [1], has enough resolution for measuring such High-Q factors. As a result, in 1982, the resonant coaxial-line method was standardized by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) that issued the: “Standard Test Method for Effective Series Resistance (ESR) and Capacitance of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors at High Frequencies” [2]. Applying this method, we found an error that concerns the measurement of a capacitor serially connected with a resonant coaxial-line and more particularly the frequency extrapolations that are mandatory for taking into account the skin effect [3]. Besides warning a user about an error, this paper is an opportunity to recall the principle of the resonant coaxial-line method and thereafter to present successively: the direct error free frequency extrapolation solution and the more complex procedure of the ASTM [2]. After comparison, the error that plagues the ASTM method is computed and is finally experimentally evaluated. Authors' note: In this paper, the symbols are identical to the ones specified by the ASTM [2].
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217031
Moisés Arredondo-Velázquez, L. Rebolledo-Herrera, B. D. C. Alonso, E. Moreno-Barbosa
Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are instruments used to measure time intervals from digital signals accurately. They play an essential role in areas such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Positron Emission To-mography (PET) [1] and Particle Physics Experiments (PPE) [2]. Particularly, PPE involves the identification of particles resulting from collisions in accelerators. The estimation is carried out by measuring their Time of Flight (ToF) and deposited charge in the scintillator materials, becoming a radiation detector, as observed in Fig. 1.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2023.10217023
D. Macii
As known, cyber-physical systems and ICT technologies in general are the backbone of the fourth industrial revolution (also known as Industry 4.0 in Europe). However, flexibility, efficiency, resilience and, above all, high-quality smart manufacturing could not be achieved without the essential contribution of measurement science. This is supposed to play a key role also for the development of value-centric, fully sustainable organizations envisioned in the forthcoming fifth industrial revolution. The most recent measurement techniques and technologies (e.g., networked and distributed measurement systems, advanced sensing solutions, machine-learning-based diagnostic solutions) supporting process and product monitoring in smart manufacturing companies are essential to reach specified quality targets and/or to ensure compliance with given technical, regulatory or legal requirements. Industrial metrology comprises all organizational and measurement procedures, techniques and technologies that contribute to reach the aforementioned goals, thus improving both customers' satisfaction and company competitiveness. In [1], Savio et al. highlight the strong economic benefits of industrial metrology in four different case studies. In particular, it turns out that, despite relevant initial investments, Internal Return Rates (RRs) ranging between 20% and 44% can be achieved with payback times shorter than three years. A pre-Brexit survey reports that UK companies using measurement standards are twice as likely to export goods compared with companies of the same size that instead make a marginal use of metrology within their processes, with an estimated impact on yearly turnover that ranges from 1.7% to 5.3% [2].
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