Smart Sensors Measurements and Instrumentation (eBook)

This book presents the select proceedings of Control Instrumentation and System Conference, (CISCON 2020) held at Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal. It examines a wide spectrum covering the latest trends in the fields of instrumentation, sensors and systems, and industrial automation and control. The topics covered include image and signal processing, robotics, renewable energy, power systems and power drives, performance attributes of MEMS, multi-sensor data fusion, machine learning, optimization techniques, process control, safety monitoring, safety critical control, supervisory control, system modeling and virtual instrumentation. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in sensors, adaptive control, automation and control and allied fields.

Dr. Santhosh K V is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, and Dy. Director Research (Technical) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education. He received Bachelors and Masters from VTU, Belgaum, and Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology, Silchar, in 2013. His research interest is in the area of sensors, wireless sensor network, multi-sensor data fusion and smart sensors. He has published around 80 publications and delivered several technical talks. He is serving as reviewer and editorial board member for several peer-reviewed journals. He is also BOE and BOS Member at various universities and active member of several professional societies.

Dr. K. Guruprasad Rao is presently serving as a teaching faculty since October 2000 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, INDIA. Dr Guruprasad obtained his Ph.D. in the year 2008 from IISc, Bangalore, and postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Nebraska, USA. His research interests are robotics - dynamics, control and path planning; multi-agent (robot) systems - deployment, coverage, search, cooperative and distributed control; location optimization; Voronoi partition - application to multi-agent systems and sensor networks, distributed algorithms for Voronoi cell computation and generalization of Voronoi partition; physics of musical instruments. He has published over 30 publications and is serving as reviewer in peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowship like the INAE fellowship during June-July 2010.

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This book presents the select proceedings of Control Instrumentation and System Conference, (CISCON 2020) held at Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal. It examines a wide spectrum covering the latest trends in the fields of instrumentation, sensors and systems, and industrial automation and control. The topics covered include image and signal processing, robotics, renewable energy, power systems and power drives, performance attributes of MEMS, multi-sensor data fusion, machine learning, optimization techniques, process control, safety monitoring, safety critical control, supervisory control, system modeling and virtual instrumentation. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in sensors, adaptive control, automation and control and allied fields.