Sensor Review: Volume 15 Issue 3

High speed print registration and colour quality control

P D King, T C West

Changes in the consumer market have resulted in many companiesallocating considerable resources to their logos and trademarks with asubsequent need for high quality product…

Sound, heat and light: photoacoustic and photothermal detection of gases

Oscar Oehler

Describes some of the current research into infrared spectroscopic gasdetection, outlining the need to produce a low cost device, whilst fulfillingthe required properties of high…

Sun shines on 3‐D vision sensor

A Bensrhair, P Miche, R Debrie

Describes current research work into the design of a 3‐D visionsensor for use in the field of robot navigation and autonomous vehicles.Outlines the development of a stereo vision…

Policing waterways for hydrocarbons

G Roscoe, E W Cookson

Describes the various sensing techniques that can be employed to monitorhydrocarbons in water, which can be applied to continuous organic monitoringas well as the detection of…

Blowing in the wind: Atmospheric pollutant monitoring

David Coe

Describes the various systems which have been developed for monitoringgaseous emissions from industrial chimney stacks and flues. Comparesextractive and non‐extractive systems and…

The world’s first automated laboratory comes on line

Tony Evans

Reports on the opening, in May 1995, of North West Water’s new watertesting laboratory in Warrington. It is the first automated laboratory in theworld, with 85 per cent of the…

Intelligent sensors: structure and system

E.T. Powner, F. Yalcinkaya

Outlines the current research work on intelligent sensors andintelligent transducers which will be required in complex systems. Discussesthe elements of an intelligent sensor and…