Measuring platform

It is important to note that the enhancements mentioned above are achievable using current planar microfabrication techniques and the resultant sensor chips are mass-producible, low-cost and disposable and also have the potential to be integrated into a variety of diagnostic microsystems. This work has significant implications for the production of low-cost, yet efficient measurement platforms for applications in modem society. 

Forster AM, Zhang WH, Crosby AJ, Stafford CM (2005) A multilens measurement platform for high-throughput adhesion measurements. Meas Sci Technol 16 81-89... 

A critical concern of all approaches is measurement specificity. The atmosphere is a complex mixture of gases and aerosols with a multitude of opportunities for interferences and artifacts. One means of approaching definite specificity is through spectroscopic techniques. Such techniques are most readily applied to the stratosphere, where the ambient pressure is low enough to avoid serious pressure broadening of spectroscopic features. Stratospheric applications are briefly surveyed in the Measurement Platforms section. 

Extension of measurement capabilities. Techniques must be developed for species that at present cannot be measured. Additionally, for species presently measured, new techniques, as well as adaptations of present techniques to other measurement platforms, are required. 

Instrument Name Height of measurement Species measured Platform... 

Mockel and Seehase (1986) developed the idea of establishing a measuring platform at the Darss Sill in the 1980s based on a floating aluminum mast, which was connected to a heavy... 

In order to produce the instruments and platforms that meet the specifications required by the measurement strategies listed in Box 1, advances in enabling technologies must be exploited. Table 2 lists some of the enabling technologies that are currently undergoing rapid development and presents examples of the improvements in environmental instrumentation and measurement platforms they have or may soon allow. 

Hoile, R., Yuen, M., James, G., Gilbert, G. L. (2006). Evaluation of the rapid analyte measurement platform (RAMP) for the detection of Bacillus anthracis at a crime scene. Forensic Sci Int. 171, 1-4. 

Force sensors are most commonly used in aerospace, medical, and automation measurement platforms, while torque sensors are often used in process monitoring and control. Different types of force and torque sensors can be used together to improve the quality of measurement in manufacturing processes. 

To summarize, the correction for asymmetry of the measuring platforms in Fig. 4.54 due to their thermal resistances and their heat capacities with Eq. (3) eliminates the main effect of the baseline curvature with temperature, as is shown in Fig. A.11.1. Further corrections include the mass differences of the pans and the thermal resistance between calorimeters and measuring platforms. 

Figure 3.13 MEMS-based tensile measurement platform with CNF. Reprinted with permission from [83].

There are several possible techniques for measuring the controlled variable. For instance, one can measure the grinding forces in the normal and tangential directions to the surface of the grinding wheel by means of a multiaxis piezoelectric force measurement platform mounted beneath the grinding spindle. Since this is, however, an expensive solution, the active electrical power required by the grinding spindle serves as a control variable, making the spindle a multifunctional element [172]. 

In contrast to traditional instrumentation approaches, regular consumer optoelectronic devices transformed into measuring platforms are affordable alternatives that are being increasingly explored. A non-negligible added value behind this approach is that successful sensing applications can be as pervasive as the devices supporting them. 

Horeman T, Rodrigues SP, Jansen FW, Dankelman J, van den Dobbelsteen JJ. Force measurement platform for training and assessment of laparoscopic skills. Surg Endosc... 

Westerink, J.H.D.M., Ouwerkerk, M., de Vries, G.-J., de Waele, S., van den Eerenbeemd, J., van Boven, M., 2009. Emotion measurement platform for daily Ufe situations, bi Affective Computing and bitelbgent Interaction and Workshops, 3rd International Conference. IEEE. 

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