Spacecraft used in space mission have on-board a large number of peripherals such as instruments, mass-memory, downlink telemetry, sensors, actuators and processors. The State-Of-The-Art for the on-board spacecraft communication is the SpaceWire...
The CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) uses 215 beam position monitors (BPMs) to observe the beam orbit when accelerating protons or ions on a fast ramp cycle to beam energies of up to 450 GeV/c. In the frame of the CERN LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU)...
Abstract Technology improvements and cost reduction allow electrochemical energy storage systems based on Lithium-ion cells to massively be used in medium-power applications, where the low system cost is the major constraint. Battery pack maintenance...
A multi-transmitter configuration made by an array of passive resonant elements placed in the proximity of the driver coil for inductive Wireless Power Transfer applications is presented. The array is able to significantly decrease the electric field...
Indoor localisation is currently regarded as one of the most useful services offered to human beings and robotics agents, as it can support a variety of applications. Among all the possible sensing solutions developed to address this problem (which is...
Distributed ledgers allow us to replicate databases of records across mutually untrusted parties. The best known example of distributed ledger is perhaps the Bitcoin blockchain, which maintains a consistent history of financial transactions organized...
Urban population is expected to continuously grow in size. The smart city concepts allows to handle the new challenges and issues created by this growth by applying a wide range of technologies that can provide citizens with a better living...
This paper presents an original low-voltage CMOS, bipolar transistor free, sub-threshold voltage reference capable of operating with sub-1V supply voltages. Novel aspects of the proposed solution are (i) use of a bandgap core with a single MOSFET to...
A compact anemometer, capable of detecting the magnitude and direction of the wind in a plane, is presented. The device constitutes an evolution of a class of sensors that exploit a recently proposed original approach, involving fluidic processing of...
This paper introduces a comprehensive test equipment for early adopters of the new ECSS satellite on-board serial high-speed communication protocol, SpaceFibre, maintaining also retro-compatibility with its precursor, SpaceWire. The presented system is...
In this paper, the development and implementation of the clustering algorithm (CA) developed for an instrument to detect lightning phenomena (Lightning Imager) is presented. The aim of the Lightning Imager (LI) instrument is to provide information...
PXI FPGA Peripheral Modules by National Instruments are meant to be used in LabView even without any previous knowledge of Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and let users to hardware-accelerate their own test and measurement setups. However,...
In the last few years, satellite on board data handling data rate requirements increased dramatically, from hundreds of megabits per second to several gigabits per second. SpaceWire, the current generation European standard communication protocol, is...
SpaceFibre is an high speed communication protocol suitable for on board satellite communication. It is the successor of the SpaceWire protocol, allowing higher data rates (up to 6.25Gbps per lane), maintaining also compatibility with it. The...
Warehouse logistics is a rapidly growing market for robots. However, one key procedure that has not received much attention is the unwrapping of pallets to prepare them for objects picking. In fact, to prevent the goods from falling and to protect...
This paper presents an ultra-low voltage, ultra-low power, inverter-based, discrete-time delta sigma modulator. The modulator employs a novel, two-stage, switched capacitor integrator that overcomes most of the issues introduced by ultra-low voltage...
This paper proposes a multi-antenna approach of a synthetic aperture radar method for 3D UHF-RFID tag localization by exploiting an Unmanned Grounded Vehicle (UGV). The UGV is remote-controlled to move inside a complex indoor environment, and the...
This paper presents a novel, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy solution to discriminate the direction of goods crossing a UHF-RFID gate in warehouse scenario. The system is based on a grid of UHF-RFID tags deployed on the floor underneath the gate...
The correct determination of the antenna phase center is a key point when performing UHF-RFID localization through a phase-based method. In this paper, we investigate the effect of a wrong knowledge on the reader antenna phase center in phase-based...
VR navigation systems have emerged as a particularly useful tool for the guidance of minimally invasive surgical procedures to restore the 3D perception of the surgical field and augment the visual information available to the surgical team. Over the...