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Mechanical structures for smart-phone enabled sensing

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posted on 2015-04-24, 10:27 authored by Simon Lawes, Peter KinnellPeter Kinnell
The paper presents a new strategy for sensor design that is made possible by the usage of ubiquitous mobile devices for signal capture, digitization, and data processing. The approach taken is to design simple mechanical sensor elements such that they produce a sensor output that is easily acquired by a mobile smart device such as a phone or tablet computer. To illustrate this concept, two mechanical displacement transducers have been designed and tested. These sensors make use of displacement amplification structures, Moiré pattern gratings and a double-ended-tuning-fork (DETF) resonant structure. The sensors produced either an acoustic or optical signal in response to an input load or displacement, which can then be acquired using the camera or microphone of a mobile device. The computing power and connectivity of mobile devices makes a wide range of processing, visualisation and storage techniques possible at low cost. Using this technique an optical displacement transducer with a range of 150 µm, and a resolution of <5 µm; and an acoustic displacement transducer with a range of 20 µm and a standard error of 0.14 µm, are demonstrated.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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8th International Conference on Sensing Technology, http://www.s2is.org/icst-2014/papers/1569989991.pdf

Citation

LAWES, S. and KINNELL, P., Mechanical structures for smart-phone enabled sensing. IN: Eighth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2014), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England, 2-4 September 2014, pp. 179-183.

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International journal of Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2014

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This is a conference paper.

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  • en

Location

Liverpool, UK

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