Special Sessions
Special Session 1
Advanced Measurement and Instrumentation for Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring
Session Organizer:
Professor Gui-Yun Tian, Newcastle University, UK
email: g.y.tian@ncl.ac.uk
Professor Rong-Sheng LU, Hefei University of Technology, China
email: rslu@hfut.edu.cn
The increasing use of materials in critical structural components for industries as diverse as aerospace, chemical and petrochemical, semiconductor, civil construction, marine, renewable energy (wind turbine, tidal and solar) and transport, combined with stringent requirements for safety and quality, has resulted in the development of non-destructive testing (NDT) and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods for characterizing materials and defects. The presence of defects and material abnormalities including residual stresses and microstructural changes in safety critical components may result in the structural integrity being compromised and increase in likelihood of failure.
NDT & E provides a means of identifying damage and irregularities in materials and is often the only means of obtaining information about the current 'health' of a structure. NDT&E is used for on-line production quality control through to in-service inspection, structural health monitoring (SHM) and life management. As NDT&E is predominantly reliant on the gathering of information about components and structures through sensing technologies, advances in the field are often driven by innovations in instrumentation and measurement. The special session aims to promote the advancement of measurement and instrumentation underpinning non-destructive testing & evaluation, condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering (including structural health monitoring) for design and quality assurance purposes. Selected papers on recent research and development on advanced sensor technologies, simulation and experimental studies of NDT&E, SHM, detection and classification of defects and material abnormality detection, lifetime assessment and intelligent maintenance for safety critical components and systems, etc. will be organized. The special session will promote papers from emerging R&D on the expansion of measurement and instrumentation for NDT&E and SHM, distributed measurement and instrumentation in particular.
Special Session 2
Advanced Non-stationary Signal Processing for Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis and Prognosis of Mechanical Systems.
Session Organizer:
Associate Professor, Zhongkui Zhu, Soochow University, China
email: zkzhu@ustc.edu
Condition monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis of mechanical systems play an important role for production safety and preventative maintenance of equipment, thus scientific research on these areas have attracted more and more attention over the past decades. Condition monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis of mechanical systems mainly concern the fault mechanism, information acquisition, feature extraction, pattern classification, and monitoring and diagnosis instrumentation. Non-stationary signal processing is practically one of the key issues involved in mechanical system condition monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis, as defects in a dynamic mechanical system shall cause non-stationarity in the vibration signal.
This special session aims to promote the advancement of non-stationary signal processing techniques for condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and prognosis. Suitable topics for this special session include but are not limited to:
- Time-frequency analysis
- Wavelet transform
- Fractional Fourier transform
- Cyclostationary signal analysis
- Evolutionary spectral analysis
- Empirical mode decomposition
- Other-related topics
Special Session 3
Navigation technologies and related applications
Session Organizer:
Professor Xi-Yuan CHEN, Southeast University, China
email: chxiyuan@seu.edu.cn
The increasing use of navigation technologies for industries as diverse as aerospace, marine and transport civil construction , deformation measurement has resulted in the development of navigation systems such as strapdown inertial navigation systems, integrated navigation systems, GPS receivers, GNSS software receivers ,wireless positioning and inertial sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers etc..
The special session aims to promote the advancement of measurement and instrumentation supporting navigation technologies and related applications. Selected papers on recent research and development on advanced inertial sensor technologies, wireless sensor technologies, GNSS signal processing, inertial alignment, calibration, filtering simulation and experimental studies for related application, etc. will be organized. The special session will promote papers from emerging R&D on the expansion of measurement and instrumentation for navigation technologies and related applications for aerospace, marine transport etc.
Special Session 4
High Performance Sensing and Instrumentation for Inspection of Food
Session Organizer:
Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Massey University, New Zealand
email: S.C.Mukhopadhyay@massey.ac.nz
The I2MTC 2011 special session on High Performance Sensors for Food Inspection is intended to bring together leading researchers working in the field of sensor and instrumentation systems for food inspection to present and discuss relevant issues. This special session aims at covering issues regarding measurements and monitoring in any kind of inspection of food product. Though destructive testing will be considered but the importance will be given for the non-destructive and non-invasive testing and inspection. These include:
- New sensors development for food inspection
- Quality and control of food production
- On-line measurement of food composition and quality
- Sensors for taste, color, odor, and feel in foodstuffs
- On-line monitoring
- Other related topics
Special Session 5
Advanced Instrumentation for Healthcare
Session organizer:
Prof. Din Ping Tsai, Instrument Technology Research Center, Taiwan
email: dptsai@itrc.org.tw
The I2MTC 2011 special session on advanced instrumentation for healthcare features on the point-care, disease detection and diagnosis, physiological measurement and monitoring of the elderly and patients with chronic disease for the improvement of living quality. This session covers the new development of bio-physic and machine-human interfaces, architecture of the ubiquities health monitoring system, innovative physiological data collecting and the application of data on diagnosis, in-situ monitoring and feedback dose control, and the apparatus for infectious disease.
Description of research area:
- Non-invasion diagnosis apparatus and systems
- Smart and Robust system for physiological measurement
- Sensors and Devices for long-term physiological and behavioral data collecting
- Tele- and Ubiquitous health monitoring system for older people and chronic diseases patients
- Devices for detecting the infectious disease
- In situ treatment monitoring and dose control
- Other related topics
Special Session 6
Personalized wireless health monitoring and decision making systems
Session Organizers:
Dr. Ratko Magjarevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
email: ratko.magjarevic@fer.hr
Dr. Vedran Bilas, University of Zagreb, Croatia
email : vedran.bilas@fer.hr
The I2MTC 2011 special session on Personalized wireless health monitoring and decision making systems is intended to bring together leading researchers working in the field of unobtrusive physiological monitoring and wireless sensor networks to present and discuss relevant issues. This special session aims at covering issues regarding development and applications of wireless health monitoring systems for management of chronic diseases. These include:
- Non-invasive and contactless sensors
- Low power signal processing
- Low power wireless communication
- Real time DSP
- Body area networks
- Integration of personal and environmental monitoring
- Mobile phone sensing applications
- Information processing and data reduction
- Other related topics.
Special Session 7
Sensors and Instrumentation for the Environment and Climate Change Monitoring
Session Organizer:
Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Massey University, New Zealand
email: S.C.Mukhopadhyay@massey.ac.nz
Dr. Rujun Chen, Central South University, China
email: chrujun@yahoo.com.cn
The proposed special session seeks submission of technical research articles addressing topical issues, underpinning better sensors and instrumentation for monitoring environment and climate change. The need for monitoring parameters of environment and climate change has never been greater - driving research in accurate, robust and reliable sensors and associated instrumentation to achieve reliable measurement of these parameters. Key examples include temperature (e.g. water, atmospheric), gas concentration (CO2, NO2, NO SO2, etc) and water quality (e.g. poisoning by algal blooms). Suitable topics for this special session include but are not limited to:
- Sensors and sensor network for environment and climate change monitoring
- Sampling methods in environment and climate change monitoring
- Special instrument design for environment and climate change monitoring
- Data processing and analysis in environment and climate change monitoring
- Other related topics
Special Session 8
Special session on Imaging Systems and Techniques
Session Organizer:
George C. Giakos, The University of Akron, United States
This Special session deals with the metrology, design, development, evaluation and applications of imaging systems, instrumentation, and measuring techniques.
Applications for aerospace, medicine and biology, molecular imaging, metrology, ladar and lidars, radars, homeland security, and industrial imaging with emphasis on industrial tomography, corrosion imaging, and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) will be particularly considered.
- Detectors and image information - design, development and characterization of high resolution electronic imaging detectors.
- Imaging system design, instrumentation and measuring techniques - imaging system design parameters, such as spectral response, spatial resolution, contrast resolution, temporal response, modulation transfer function (MTF), system efficiency, noise analysis, data acquisition systems, and measuring techniques.
- Linear and nonlinear techniques for image processing - advanced image enhancement and processing algorithms, fuzzy neural and evolutionary techniques for image enhancement, wavelets and fractal analysis, noise estimation and filtering, image restoration, feature extraction, edge detection, image analysis and classification.
- Emerging Technologies - Novel imaging principles and/or concepts leading to the development of high resolution high-specificity imaging technological paradigms on areas such as: active/passive imaging architectures; remote sensing; polarimetric imaging; space object detection, identification, and discrimination techniques; imaging and spectroscopy; advanced electromagnetic imaging techniques including impedance tomography; homeland security, cargo inspection, IED detection; characterization of defects and surface anomalies, corrosion imaging, imaging of composite structures; medical imaging such as multi-modality imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), guided biopsy imaging, biomedical optics and cancer detection; microarray imaging chips, miniaturized portable imaging devices.
Special Session 9
Special session on Intelligent Robotics: Making Human Life Better
Session Organizers:
Dr. Gourab sen Gupta, Massey University, New Zealand
email: g.sengupta@massey.ac.nz
Prof. Serge Demindenko, RMIT International Univeristy, Vietnam
email: serge.demidenko@rmit.edu.vn
In the past decade, significant advances have been made in the field of intelligent robotics including perception, comprehension, information processing and reaction of robot systems. Such systems are increasingly being deployed in real-world scenarios: manufacturing, services, medicine, etc. A key feature of these robotic systems is the requirement to function in uncertain, dynamic environments, in close contact with and assisting human beings, thus making their life better. These challenges require new advanced I&M related techniques and tools that are to be integrated with intelligent data acquisition, control and manipulation systems in the modern and future robotics.
The proposed special session is intended to bring together leading researchers working in the field of intelligent robotics and relevant fields under the common topic of improvement of human life quality in the modern society. This could include (but not be limited to) the following areas:
- Human-robot interface;
- Service robots;
- Robotics in the areas of security;
- Robotics in elderly care;
- Robotics for disabled and challenged;
- Robotics-assisted medicine;
- Rescue robotics;
- Robotics for education.