Towards Continuous Monitoring of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Gastrointestinal Tract

Much like wearable devices today, ingestible devices have emerged as a promising platform for continuous health monitoring, and potentially even intervention. Recent research has demonstrated the feasibility of ingestible devices with a retention mechanism, enabling them to remain in the stomach for weeks. Equipping these devices with sensors...

Ultrasonic imaging through aberrating layers using covariance matching

We consider the scenario of finding the transfer function of an aberrating layer in front of a receiving ultrasound (US) array, assuming a separate non-aberrated transmit source. We propose a method for blindly estimating this transfer function without exact knowledge of the ultrasound sources or acoustic contrast image, and without directly...

Mapping the magnetic field using a magnetometer array with noisy input Gaussian process regression

Ferromagnetic materials in indoor environments give rise to disturbances in the ambient magnetic field. Maps of these magnetic disturbances can be used for indoor localisation. A Gaussian process can be used to learn the spatially varying magnitude of the magnetic field using magnetometer measurements and information about the position of the...

Self-Calibration of Acoustic Scalar and Vector Sensor Arrays

In this work, we consider the self-calibration problem of joint calibration and direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation using acoustic sensor arrays. Unlike many previous iterative approaches, we propose solvers that can be readily used for both linear and non-linear arrays for jointly estimating the sensor gain, phase errors, and the source...

Bio-inspired combinable self-powered soft device operating during the disintegration and reconstruction for next-generation artificial electric organs

Hydrogel materials have biocompatibility, flexibility, transparency, self-healing ability, adhesion with various substrates, anti-freeze ability, and high-temperature resistance. However, the existing hydrogel devices cannot continue to operate in the case of damage, and they cannot work during the repair period, which brings great challenges...

Gas Sensor Based on Array of Multi-Layer Graphene Decorated with Metal/Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

Graphene as an allotrope of carbon is promising for the detection of gaseous molecules due to its extremely high surface-to-volume ratio. However, its low selectivity poses a major problem for practical applications. The work presented in this thesis addresses the selectivity problem by depositing metal/metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) on the...

A 3-by-3 400-MHz LC microsensor array for wireless capacitive biosensing

Biosensing has been developed rapidly for a number of biomedical applications, including neural monitoring, protein detection, bacteria detection and blood glucose monitoring. Among the branches of bio-sensing, capacitive sensing is a promising technique and utilized widely, since it is rapid, simple, label free and inexpensive. Compared with...

DoA estimation via unlimited sensing

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation is a mature topic with decades of history. Despite the progress in the field, very few papers have looked at the problem of DoA estimation with unknown dynamic range. Consider the case of space exploration or near-field and far-field emitters. In such settings, the amplitude of the impinging wavefront can be...

The design of a distributed sensing system for contactless substrate transport

In the PHD researches of Jasper Wesselingh and Phuc Vuong, an active air film positioning system for thin substrates was developed. To apply this concept in an industrial environment, this research has to be extended to include both a positioning and a transportation system. An important part for up scaling the system is having an accurate...