7 research outputs found
Noise Impact in Designed Conditioning System for Energy Harvesting Units in Biomedical Applications
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Processing stabilometric data for electronic knee: Training and calibration
Electronic knee is new opportunity for people having one or two amputated legs. Differently from traditional prosthesis, electronic knee is the first one to be driven by a microprocessor with an hydraulic control for the static and dynamic steps. It is become a positive key issue for the comfort and movement freedom for transfemoral amputed people. Despite the use of microprocessor, many difficulties arise during connection on human being and from calibration. This paper presents a technique of predicting calibration operations and stabilometric measurements in order to allow a better connection between electronic knee and the amputated patient. The technique is based on a novel genetic doped algorithm capable of producing the postural positions and correct calibration
STFT-based spectral analysis of urban waterworks leakage detection
peer reviewedWater is an essential good for human being
necessity. It must be protected against pollution and useless
leakage. Urban waterworks is a strategic infrastructure to be
managed with particular attention and care so that users
must be satisfied. Different techniques are used to detect
leaks from waterworks, specifically from pipelines carrying
water. Among them, spectral analysis is very interesting to
apply amid problems related to the pipeline section. This
paper presents an application of STFT (short-term Fourier
transform) technique for identifying urban waterworks
leaks; STFT technique is usually used in processing speech.
For the purposes of this research, a specific pipeline plant
has been build in other to feature a real case. The pipeline
section is almost one inch; the adopted section makes the
research very interesting since spectral analysis, based
essentially on FFT, is generally used for section greater
than 20 cm
Thermoelectric generator design based on power from body heat for biomedical autonomous devices
Energy harvesting from human body has been undergoing an interesting and quick development thanks to the technological availability of new electronic components and the growing of different applications, in particular, for biomedical and social impacts on human beings' daily life. The main scope of this paper is to modeling and to design a thermoelectric generator that extracts energy from human tissue warmth in order to supply a biomedical hearing prosthesis for death persons. An array of sensors based on thermocouple effect has been used. A conditioning and accumulator circuitry has been designed and teste