20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium Measurements of Electrical Quantities 2014 (and 18th International Workshop on ADC and DAC Modelling and Testing, IWADC) Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn Benevento, Italy 15-17 September 2014 Volume 1 of 2 ISBN: 978-1-63439-425-3 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. Copyright© (2014) by the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) All rights reserved. Printed by Curran Associates, Inc. (2014) For permission requests, please contact the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) at the address below. IMEKO Secretariat P.O. Box 457 H-1371 Budapest Hungary Phone/Fax: +36 1 353 1562 imeko@t-online.hu Additional copies of this publication are available from: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2634 Email: curran@proceedings.com Web: www.proceedings.com TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION OF MOBILE ROBOTS: FROM BASIC SENSING TO PROBLEM SOLVING ............................ 1 Paolo Tripicchio, Massimo Satler, Carlo Alberto Avizzano, Massimo Bergamasco AN INCREMENTAL SLAM ALGORITHM FOR INDOOR AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION ........................................................... 7 Mario Di Castro, Alessandro Masi, Giacomo Lunghi, Roberto Losito NEW INFRARED TIME OF-FLIGHT MEASUREMENT SENSOR FOR ROBOTIC PLATFORMS .............................................. 13 Massimiliano Ruffo, Mario Di Castro, Luca Molinari, Roberto Losito, Alessandro Masi, Jan Kovermann, Luis Rodrigues CHALLENGES IN MONITORING TOWARD A NEW MULTI-UTILITY NETWORK FOR ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Attilio Di Nisio, Mario Savino, Maurizio Spadavecchia CURRENT AND VOLTAGE SYNCHRONOUS MEASUREMENTS USING NI CRIO SYSTEM WITH SIGMADELTA ADC NI 92xx AND S.E.A. GPS MODULES .................................................................................................................................. 25 Yuri Grigorievich Kononov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Ospishchev, Vyacheslav Yuryevich Rudnev MATLAB BASED FLICKERMETER .......................................................................................................................................................... 31 Goran Petrovic, Roman Malaric, Ivana Kardum MEASUREMENT METHOD OF AC CURRENT UP TO 1 MHZ ........................................................................................................... 35 Dominique Fortuné, Daniela Istrate, François Ziadé, Isabelle Blanc A PC-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR AUTOMATIC MONITORING AND CONTROL OF A CPVT POWER PLANT............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40 Mirko Brando, Antonio Cataliotti, Cesare Caramazza, Valentina Cosentino, Giuseppina Ciulla, Dario Di Cara, Davide Gambino, Felice Vesco, Giuseppe Marsala, Antonella Ragusa, Giovanni Tinè EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION AND MODELING OF PLUCKED PIEZOELECTRIC FOR UNDERWATER ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................................. 45 Daniel M. Toma, Joaquin Del Rio, Montserrat Carbonell-Ventura, Ferran Bernet Piquet, Jaume Miquel Masalles ATTENUATION OF RELATIVE OSCILLATION BY MEANS OF SELF-ACTIVE COMPOSITE ELASTOMAGNETIC ATTENUATORS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 50 Enrico Ricciardi, Giovanni Ausanio, Vincenzo Iannotti, Vittorio Pasquino, Luciano Lanotte MEASUREMENT OF THE MAGNETIZATION OF THIN-FILM SAMPLES SUBJECTED TO MECHANICAL STRESS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 55 Michael Löffler, Ruben Piepgras, Alexander Sutor, Reinhard Lerch A COMBINED TECHNIQUE APPROACH FOR THE STUDY OF A LANDSLIDE IN THE CALABRIA REGION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 60 Ausilio Ernesto, Zimmaro Paolo EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF GEOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS IN 1-G TESTS ................................................................ 64 Maria Giovanna Durante, Luigi Di Sarno, Stefania Sica, George Mylonakis, Colin A. Taylor, Armando Lucio Simonelli SINGLE-SHOT AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE LONGITUDINAL MONITOR BY MEANS OF ELECTROOPTICAL SAMPLING FOR FUTURE PLASMA WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION EXPERIMENTS ........................................... 69 Riccardo Pompili, Maria Pia Anania, Marco Bellaveglia, M. Castellano, Enrica Chiadroni, Alessandro Cianchi, Domenico Di Giovenale, Giampiero Di Pirro, Giancarlo Gatti, F. Giorgianni, Massimo Ferrario, F. Massimo, Andrea Mostacci, C. Vaccarezza, F. Villa ULTRA-SHORT LASER PULSES FOR NOVEL PARTICLE ACCELERATORS............................................................................... 75 Maria Pia Anania, Giancarlo Gatti, Marco Belleveglia, Enrica Chiadroni, Alessandro Cianchi, Domenico Di Giovenale, Giampiero Di Pirro, Andrea Mostacci, Riccardo Pompili, Cristina Vaccarezza, Fabio Villa, Massimo Ferrario RF COUPLING IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS FOR PARTICLE ACCELERATOR DEVICES ................................................ 80 Andrea Mostacci, David Alesini, Nicolò Biancacci, Fritz Caspers, Luca Ficcadenti, Joseph Kuczerowski, Mauro Migliorati, Luigi Palumbo, Benoit Salvant, Bruno Spataro CLIC BPM-QUADRUPOLE PRE-ALIGNMENT IN THE FRAME OF THE PACMAN MARIE CURIE ACTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 86 Silvia Zorzetti, Manfred Wendt, Luca Fanucci A SELF-OSCILLATING SYSTEM TO CHARACTERIZE LIQUID SALINITIES WITHIN A SINGLE TRIANGULAR WAVEFORM SIGNAL ...................................................................................................................................................... 91 Laurent A. Francis, Sylvain Druart, Denis Flandre A MAGNETIC CURRENT SENSOR WITH SQUID READOUT ............................................................................................................ 97 Luca Callegaro, Bruno Trinchera, Luca Roncaglione Tet COAXIAL-CAGE LINE FOR GEO-MATERIALS ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION .......................................... 102 Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Elisabetta Mattei, Barbara Cosciotti, Federico Di Paolo, Elena Pettinelli MEASUREMENT OF DIELECTRIC ABSORPTION OF CAPACITORS BY SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION ............................... 106 Linus Michaeli, Ján Šaliga, Marek Godla, Jozef Lipták CMOS RECEIVER FOR A PULSED TOF LASER RANGEFINDER UTILIZING THE TIME DOMAIN WALK COMPENSATION SCHEME ...................................................................................................................................................................... 111 Sami Kurtti, Juha Kostamovaara LATERAL IMPACT LOADING AND SNAP-BACK TESTING TO ESTIMATE LINEAR AND NONLINEAR DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF NEAR-SHORE PILES................................................................................................................................. 116 Francesca Dezi, Fabrizio Gara, Davide Roia EVALUATION OF A BI-LAYERED SOIL DEPOSIT DYNAMIC PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOR BY MEANS OF ACCELEROMETRIC MEASURES..................................................................................................................................................... 122 Roberto Cairo, Andrea Chidichimo, Giovanni Dente ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS ON CANTILEVER RETAINING WALL MODELS DURING EARTHQUAKE SIMULATIONS.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 127 Augusto Penna, Anna Scotto Di Santolo, Panos Kloukinas, Colin A. Taylor, George Mylonakis, Aldo Evangelista, Armando L. Simonelli AN EXAMPLE OF EMPLOYMENT OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC MONITORING TO UNDERSTAND THE BEHAVIOUR OF A FLEXIBLE RETAINING WALL............................................................................................................................ 133 Giovanni Fabbrocino, Carlo Rainieri, Michele Di Tullio, Filippo Santucci De Magistris ESTABLISHING C3, THE COHERENCE BETWEEN ACCELERATOR PHYSICS REQUIREMENTS, MAGNET MANUFACTURE, AND MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................. 139 Stephan Russenschuck, Oliver Boine-Frankenheim THE ATLAS INSERTABLE B-LAYER (IBL) DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND INTEGRATION CHALLENGES ....................... 144 Javier Bilbao De Mendizabal, Giuseppe Iacobucci EMULSION CLOUD CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY TO MEASURE THE FRAGMENTATION OF CARBON ION BEAMS USED IN HADRON THERAPY .......................................................................................................................................... 148 Giovanni De Lellis, Antonia Di Crescenzo, Adele Lauria, Maria Cristina Montesi BEAM DIAGNOSTICS BY INFRARED TIME RESOLVED DETECTORS ....................................................................................... 153 Alessandro Drago, Mariangela Cestelli Guidi, Antonio De Sio, Augusto Marcelli, Emanuele Pace THE BOLTZMANN CONSTANT FROM THE SHAPE OF A H218O VIBRATION-ROTATION LINE ......................................... 159 Eugenio Fasci, Maria Domenica De Vizia, Luigi Moretti, Antonio Castrillo, Livio Gianfrani HYBRID TIME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS................................................................... 164 Oriol Pallares, Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Joaquin Del Río SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME OF THREE TERMINAL MTJ DEVICES...................................................................................... 169 Riccardo Tomasello, Mario Carpentieri, Giovanni Finocchio ABOUT THE CONVENTIONALITY OF SIMULTANEITY AND SYNCHRONIZATION .............................................................. 174 Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri, Alfonso Nastro LOGICALLY SYNCHRONOUS MODELS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS WITH EXPLICIT TIMING SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 178 Patricia Derler, Edward A. Lee, Michael Zimmer THE IMPACT OF GPS VULNERABILITIES ON THE ELECTRIC POWER GRID........................................................................ 183 Bernhard Baumgartner, Christian Riesch, Wolfgang Schenk SPECTROSCOPIC OPTICAL SENSORS FOR WELDING DIAGNOSTICS ..................................................................................... 189 Jesus Mirapeix, Adolfo Cobo, Jose J. Valdiande, Ruben Ruiz-Lombera, Pilar B. Garcia-Allende, Olga M. Conde, Luis RodriguezCobo, Jose Miguel Lopez-Higuera SOIL TESTING USING A CHIRP RC ....................................................................................................................................................... 195 Adolfo Cavallari VS PROFILES PROVIDED BY SDMT FOR SOIL CHARACTERIZATION IN NUMERICAL SEISMIC RESPONSE ANALYSES............................................................................................................................................................................... 200 Paola Monaco, Sara Amoroso, Diego Marchetti, Gianfranco Totani APPLICATION OF ERT AND GPR GEOPHYSICAL TESTING TO THE GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HISTORICAL SITES ................................................................................................................................. 206 Filomena De Silva, Anna D'Onofrio, Lorenza Evangelista, Flavia Fascia, Francesco Silvestri, Anna Scotto Di Santolo, Stefania Sica, Giuseppe Cavuoto, Vincenzo Di Fiore, Michele Punzo, Paolo Scotto Di Vettimo, Daniela Tara A HIGH CAPACITY TENSIOMETER TO MEASURE SOIL SUCTION ............................................................................................ 212 Claudio Mancuso, Raffaele Papa APPLICATION OF A HIGH RESOLUTION DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR IN A PHYSICAL MODEL REPRODUCING SUBSURFACE WATER FLOW .................................................................................................................. 216 Silvia Bersan, Luca Schenato, Aneesh Rajendran, Luca Palmieri, Simonetta Cola, Alessandro Pasuto, Paolo Simonini A LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF A VOLCANIC ASH ..................................... 221 Valeria Bandini, Ernesto Cascone, Giovanni Biondi, Elisabetta Feudale Foti FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF THE SETTLEMENTS INDUCED BY PRELOADING AND VERTICAL DRAINS ON A CLAYEY DEPOSIT ........................................................................................................................................................... 226 Ernesto Cascone, Giovanni Biondi ADC TESTING IN STANDARDIZED AND NON-STANDARDIZED WAYS, USING A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 232 Tamás Virosztek, István Kollár REALIABLE ADC TESTING USING LABVIEW.................................................................................................................................... 238 Vilmos Pálfi, István Kollár DESIGN OF AN ULTRA-LOW NOISE ANALOGUE FRONT-END FOR FAST VOLTAGE PULSES MEASUREMENT .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 243 Pasquale Arpaia, Carlo Baccigalupi, Miguel Cerqueira Bastos, Michele Martino ROUNDOFF ERRORS IN THE EVALUATION OF THE COST FUNCTION IN SINE WAVE BASED ADC TESTING ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 249 Balázs Renczes, István Kollár PERFORMANCE AND INFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTIMIZED FLASH AND ADAPTIVE CYCLIC A/D CONVERTERS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 254 Anatoliy Platonov, Konrad Jedrzejewski DISTRIBUTED GABRIEL GRAPH CONSTRUCTION AND META-INFORMATION GATHERING......................................... 260 Gabriele Oliva, Roberto Setola, Marios Polycarpou PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF WM-BUS-BASED SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOLS IN SENSOR NETWORKS................................................................................................................................................................................................... 266 Domenico Capriglione, Luigi Ferrigno, Antonio Del Giudice, Giorgio Graditi, Vincenzo Paciello, Antonio Pietrosanto IMPLEMENTATION AND TRANSITION CONCEPTS FOR IEEE 1588 PRECISION TIMING IN IEC 61850 SUBSTATION ENVIRONMENTS .............................................................................................................................................................. 273 Bernhard Baumgartner, Christian Riesch, Manfred Rudigier NEW HARDWARE INTERFACE TO SYNCHRONIZE STAND-ALONE MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS .......................... 279 Francesco Lamonaca, Domenico Luca Carnì, Domenico Grimaldi SYNCHRONIZED WSNS ARCHITECTURE FOR EFFICIENT REMOTE TASKS SCHEDULING ............................................. 284 Amilcare Francesco Santamaria, Cesare Sottile, Salvatore Marano CURRENT SITUATION AND CHALLENGES AT FUKUSHIMA: HANDS-ON MEASUREMENTS OF RADIATION CONTAMINATION AFTER FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT......................... 290 Shinzo Kimura, Toshihiro Takatsuji, Koji Uchiyama, Yukako Komasa, Akiko Kitamura, Hitoshi Sato, Michael Buzinny ANALYSIS OF FMRI DATA USING THE COMPLEX SYSTEMS APPROACH .............................................................................. 294 Angela Lombardi, Pietro Guccione, Luigi Mascolo MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS TO STUDY PATHOGENIC MUTATIONS IN PROTEINS ................................... 300 Valentina Mirabelli, Rocco Caliandro, Giovanni Nico, Giovanni Luca Tiscia, Giovanni Favuzzi, Elvira Grandone ANALYSIS OF THE PATIENT'S ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT .................................................................. 306 Vytautas Markevicius, Justas Viciunas, Dangirutis Navikas, Algimantas Valinevicius, Darius Andriukaitis, Paulius Kantautas OPTICAL FIBRE MAGNETOFLUIDIC SENSORS AND ACTUATORS............................................................................................ 312 Stavros Pissadakis, Maria Kosntantaki, Alessandro Candiani EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DYNAMICAL PERFORMANCES OF A NOVEL FIBER-OPTIC PRESSURE SENSOR FOR PULMONARY VENTILATION ................................................................................................................. 316 Luigi Battista, Andrea Scorza, Giulia Lupi, Salvatore Andrea Sciuto A PYROMETRIC TECHNIQUE FOR GAS TURBINE INLET TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ........................................... 321 E. Golinelli, S. Musazzi, U. Perini, F. Barberis, C. Cherbaucich TOWARD A GENERAL BILATERAL TELEOPERATION FRAMEWORK BETWEEN DISSIMILAR KINEMATIC STRUCTURES ...................................................................................................................................................................... 326 Gionata Salvietti, Leonardo Meli, Guido Gioioso, Domenico Prattichizzo A RGB-D CAMERA-BASED APPROACH FOR ROBOT ARM-HAND TELEOPERATED CONTROL....................................... 332 Francesca Cordella, Loredana Zollo, Eugenio Guglielmelli CHARACTERIZATION OF MISMATCHES IN TIME-INTERLEAVED ADC ................................................................................. 337 Manel Ben-Romdhane, Asma Maalej, Chiheb Rebai, Dominique Dallet ARCHITECTURE OF SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH SINGLE SET OF DELAY LINES................................................................................................................................................................................ 342 Dariusz Koscielnik, Jakub Szyduczynski, Dominik Rzepka, Wojciech Andrysiewicz, Marek Miskowicz CAPACITANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER FOR ACCURATE DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT IN THE SUB-NANOMETRE RANGE ............................................................................................................................................................. 348 Roumen Nojdelov, Stoyan Nihtianov, Andrew Yacoot, Dirk Voigt DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION STAGE OF THE FBD ΣΔ-BASED ADC ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTISTANDARD RECEIVER ................................................................................................................................................................ 354 Rihab Lahouli, Manel Ben-Romdhane, Chiheb Rebai, Dominique Dallet ENHANCED FAST DIGITAL INTEGRATOR FOR MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS .................................................................... 360 Pasquale Arpaia, Pasquale Cimmino, Lucio Fiscarelli EVALUATION OF THE UNCERTAINTY TYPE A OF THE RANDOM STATIONARY SIGNAL COMPONENT FROM ITS AUTOCORRELATED OBSERVATIONS................................................................................................. 366 Zygmunt Lech Warsza, Mykhaylo Dorozhovets TOWARDS A HARMONIZED TREATMENT OF DYNAMIC METROLOGY ................................................................................. 372 Sascha Eichstädt, Clemens Elster REPEATABILITY AND REPRODUCIBILITY TECHNIQUES FOR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS.......................... 376 Marcantonio Catelani, Lorenzo Ciani, Bianca Sereni, Andrea Zanobini EXTREME VALUE STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TIME DOMAIN PULSE-TO-PULSE MEASUREMENTS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 382 Pasquale Arpaia, Carlo Baccigalupi, Michele Martino FORENSIC METROLOGY: WHERE LAW MEETS MEASUREMENTS .......................................................................................... 386 Veronica Scotti FORENSIC METROLOGY: UNCERTAINTY OF MEASUREMENTS IN FORENSIC ANALYSIS .............................................. 391 Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo, Donato Papalillo, Lorenzo Cozzella, Fabio Leccese ANALOGUE FINGERPRINTING FOR PAINTING AUTHENTICATION......................................................................................... 397 Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo, Lorenzo Cozzella, Maurizio Caciotta, Roberto Colasanti, Gianluca Ferrari A NEW PLATFORM FOR HIGH ACCURACY POWER QUALITY MEASUREMENTS: THE FORENSIC POINT OF VIEW........................................................................................................................................................................................... 403 Stefano Di Pasquale, Sabino Giarnetti, Fabio Leccese, Daniele Trinca, Maurizio Caciotta LABORATORY AND FIELD GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MEASUREMENTS FOR BURIED WEAPONS DETECTION............................................................................................................................................................................. 409 Elena Pettinelli, Elisabetta Mattei, Barbara Cosciotti, Federico Di Paolo, Sebastian Emauel Lauro Π-SHIFTED FIBER BRAGG GRATING RING RESONATOR AS A SPLITTING MODE RESONANT SENSOR ..................... 413 Carlo Edoardo Campanella, Lorenzo Mastronardi, Francesco De Leonardis, Vittorio M. N. Passaro FIBER OPTIC SENSING PROBES USING SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUES ................................................................................ 419 M. Pisco, F. Galeotti, R. Parente, G. Quero, A. Iadicicco, M. Giordano, A. Cusano HAPTIC GUIDANCE IN URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE SCENARIOS WITH REDUCED VISIBILITY ................................ 424 Stefano Scheggi, Gionata Salvietti CALIBRATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LOW-COST IMUS ............................................................................. 430 Alberto Pretto, Giorgio Grisetti LOW-COST MOBILE ROBOTICS PLATFORM FOR ACTIVE TEACHING................................................................................... 436 Gianmichele Siano, Luigi Glielmo HAPTICS FORCE FEEDBACK BASED ON CURRENT CONTROL LOOP FOR REMOTE MANIPULATION ....................... 440 Jose Breñosa, Manuel Ferre PIECEWISE AFFINE VIRTUAL SENSOR: A CASE STUDY - ESTIMATION OF STEPPING MOTOR CURRENT FROM LONG DISTANCES .................................................................................................................................................... 446 Alberto Oliveri, Mark Butcher, Alessandro Masi, Marco Storace PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON AUTONOMOUS SENSOR SYSTEMS DEDICATED TO AIR QUALITY MONITORING............................................................................................................................................................................................... 451 Farid Touati, Claudio Legena, Alessio Galli, Damiano Crescini, Paolo Crescini, Adel Ben Mnaouer AN AUTOMATIC TEST SYSTEM FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF QUICK CHARGING STATIONS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES ...................................................................................................................................................................... 456 Edoardo Fiorucci, Giovanni Bucci, Antonio Ometto, Antonio Ragonese, Flavio D’Innocenzo, Antonino Genovese ENERGETICAL AND INFORMATIONAL ASPECTS IN TRANSDUCERS ...................................................................................... 462 Dan Mihai Stefanescu PERFORMANCES OF RAINFALL ENERGY HARVESTER ............................................................................................................... 468 Rosario Miceli, Pietro Romano, Ciro Spataro, Fabio Viola JOINT CLASSIFICATION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF COMPRESSIVE SAMPLED FSK SIGNALS......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 474 Luca De Vito, Octavia A. Dobre IMPROVEMENT OF INFORMATION RELIABILITY OF DIGITAL SYSTEMS WITH QAM/COFDM MODULATION.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 479 Alexey Arlenovich Lvov, Michael Semenovich Svetlov, Pavel Vladimirovich Martynov DESIGN OF COUPLING INTERFACE FOR NARROWBAND POWER LINE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION............................................................................................................................................................................... 484 Souha Souissi, Ons Ben Rhouma, Chiheb Rebai CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAGNETIC INDUCTION FIELD PRODUCED BY SECONDARY SUBSTATIONS .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 490 G. Cangemi, A. Cataliotti, G. Cipriani, V. Di Dio, A. Lipari, R. Miceli, G. Tinè A DEPENDENCY MATRIX-BASED APPROACH FOR DESIGNING ATE CALIBRATION STRATEGY.................................. 496 Wei Jiang, Qi Zhang INVESTIGASTIONS ON A SELECTABLE-VALUE, HIGH DC VOLTAGE STANDARD .............................................................. 502 Flavio Galliana, Roberto Cerri, Luca Roncaglione, Andrea Sosso DIFFUSED CAPACITANCE-BASED SENSING FOR HYDRIC CONTROL AND WATERING OPTIMIZATION ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 508 Nicola Giaquinto, Andrea Cataldo, Emanuele Piuzzi, Egidio De Benedetto, Giuseppe Maria D’Aucelli, Giuseppe Cannazza AN AUTOMATED DIGITAL TESTING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION ADC BASED ON THE FEEDBACK LOOP METHOD USING LOW-RESOLUTION DAC SIGNAL ..................................................................................... 514 Nan Wang, Cheng Huang, Jianhui Wu THE SAGNAC EFFECT IN GPS, ABSOLUTE SIMULTANEITY AND THE NEW MEANING OF TIME .................................. 519 Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri, Amrit Sorli PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF FLOODING TIME SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOL IN TRAFFIC MONITORING SCENARIOS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 524 Domenico Capriglione, Deborah Casinelli, Luigi Ferrigno DESIGN AND PROTOTYPING OF WIRELESS SENSOR NODES FOR NON-CONTACT ROAD-LEVEL CLIMATE MONITORING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 529 Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Francesco Picariello, Sergio Rapuano, Ioan Tudosa DETERMINISTIC SAMPLING FOR UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION IN COMPLEX ALGORITHMBASED MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 535 Leopoldo Angrisani, Felice Cennamo, Annalisa Liccardo, Michele Vadursi, Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS TO ASSESS THE PROPERTIES OF SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 541 Enrico Silva, Nicola Pompeo, Kostiantyn Torokhtii QA AND QC FOR ITER MAGNET CONDUCTOR PRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 545 Simonetta Turtù, Riccardo Righetti, Federico Quagliata A SYSTEM FOR ASSISTED LIVING AND HOME AUTOMATION................................................................................................... 549 Giovanni Bucci, Fabrizio Ciancetta, Emidio Della Loggia, Flavio D'Innocenzo, Edoardo Fiorucci TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES, POSSESSING REDOX-ISOMERISM AS A BASIS FOR NEW SMART SENSING MATERIALS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 555 Alla V. Arapova, Michail P. Bubnov, Nina A. Skorodumova, Natalia N. Smirnova, Gleb A. Abakumov AUTOMATIC INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT FIRING PREVENTION USING INFRARED TERMOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 559 Maurizio Caciotta, Fabio Leccese, Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo, Lorenzo Cozzella RISK ANALYSIS IN AVIATION: THE FORENSIC POINT OF VIEW............................................................................................... 564 Ettore De Francesco, Ruggero De Francesco, Fabio Leccese, Marco Cagnetti VOLUME 2 A FAST MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION ADC TEST ....................................................... 570 Cheng Huang, Guojiao Wang, Weiguang Yang MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING BY MEANS OF ELECTRICAL SIGNATURE ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY .......................... 575 Marco Faifer, Stefano Ierace, Massimo Lazzaroni DUST EFFECTS ON THE PV PLANT EFFICIENCY: A NEW MONITORING STRATEGY......................................................... 581 Marco Faifer, Massimo Lazzaroni, Sergio Toscani USING AMBIENT LIGHT SENSORS ON SMARTPHONES TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR CHARGERS.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 587 Christian Schuss, Tore Leikanger, Bernd Eichberger, Timo Rahkonen CRITICAL COMPONENTS TEST AND RELIABILITY ISSUES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTER ...................................... 593 Marcantonio Catelani, Lorenzo Ciani, Alberto Reatti ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT OF PERMITTIVITY IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS AT LOW FREQUENCIES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 598 Bernardo Tellini, Mauro Bologna, Mirko Marracci, Roberto Micheletti EFFECTS OF REGENT SUIT ON LOWER LIMB ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF HEMIPARETIC SUBJECTS........................................................................................................................................................................ 603 Giovanni D’Addio, Luigi Iuppariello, Maria Romano, Paolo Bifulco, Nicola Pappone, Bernardo Lanzillo, Mario Cesarelli A NEW SYSTEM TO DELIVER VIBRATION, MEASURE MOTION AND EMG REACTION FOR FOREARM MUSCLES....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 607 Mario Cesarelli, Giovanni D’Angelo, Maria Romano, Paolo Bifulco, Fabrizio Clemente QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EMG PATTERNS OF UPPER LIMB MUSCLES DURING ROBOTIC REHABILITATION .................................................................................................................................................................. 611 Maria Romano, Giovanni D’Addio, Luigi Iuppariello, Paolo Bifulco, Bernardo Lanzillo, Nicola Pappone, Mario Cesarelli WIND TURBINE VIBRATION MONITORING BASED ON FINITE-ELEMENT (FE) SIMULATION ........................................ 616 Marcantonio Catelani, Lorenzo Ciani, Susanna Papini, Andrea Rindi AN AUTOMATED TEST SYSTEM FOR SPEARFISHING RUBBERS CHARACTERIZATION .................................................. 621 Francesco Adamo, Filippo Attivissimo, Giuseppe Cavone, Giampaolo Cice CAMERA CALIBRATION PROCEDURE TO IMPROVE SAFETY IN RAILWAY TUNNEL ....................................................... 627 Gregorio Andria, Antonio Bruno, Anna Maria Lucia Lanzolla, Maurizio Spadavecchia, Valeria Leonarda Scarano THE STRATEGIES OF DATA RECORDING IN POWER QUALITY PARAMETERS MEASURING INSTRUMENT ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 632 Romuald Masnicki, Janusz Mindykowski, Damian Hallmann MEASUREMENTS IN THE HYPERPOLARIZED HELIUM-3 FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS............................................... 638 Onofrio Losito, Vincenzo Dimiccoli, Attilio Di Nisio, Maurizio Spadavecchia, Francesco Prudenzano THERMAL SIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES WITH MAGNETITE MICROINSERTIONS UNDER MICROWAVE ENERGY IN SUPPORT OF CHEMO-HYPERTHERMAL DELIVERY.................................................................. 643 Romeo Ciobanu, José Francisco Blanco Villalba, Thomas Schreiner, Bogdan Tamba ANALYZE OF THE DISRUPTIVE POTENTIAL OF TWO RF SOURCES INSIDE A NEONATES I.C.U. .................................. 648 Alexandru Salceanu, Fanel Iacobescu, Catalina Luca, Mirela Anghel DESIGN, STABILITY ANALYSIS AND UNCERTAINTY CONTRIBUTION OF A VOLTAGE DIVIDER DESIGNED FOR A PHASE METER.......................................................................................................................................................... 653 Stanislav Maslan, Martin Sira, Vera Nováková Zachovalová CALORIMETRIC SENSOR TO MEASURE LOCAL CALORIFIC DISSIPATIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY ........................... 657 Ch. Jesus, Fabiola Socorro, Manuel Rodriguez De Rivera, Hector Jesus Rodriguez De Rivera, Roberto Sarmiento FAILURE ANALYSIS BASED ON EMULATION SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................... 662 Leopoldo Angrisani, Felice Cennamo, Giacomo Ianniello, Aniello Stellato ADVANCED SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR PARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION BASED ON QUANTIZED DATA....................... 666 Antonio Moschitta, Paolo Carbone ADC TEST LIBRARY IN LABVIEW......................................................................................................................................................... 668 Ján Šaliga, Jozef Lipták, Vojtech Vitkovic, Linus Michaeli ADCTEST TOOLBOX FOR MATLAB...................................................................................................................................................... 670 Tamás Virosztek, István Kollár ADC TEST TOOL FOR LABVIEW............................................................................................................................................................ 672 Vilmos Pálfi, Tamás Virosztek, István Kollár AN APPLICATION TO COMBINE AND COMPARE MEASUREMENT RESULTS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF RANDOM-FUZZY VARIABLES.......................................................................................................................................................... 674 Alessandro Ferrero, Marco Prioli, Simona Salicone DESIGN OF A FLEXIBLE FILTER FOR SYNCHRONOUS RESAMPLING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS................................................................................................................................................................................................... 676 Jürgen Funck, Clemens Gühmann ENERGY HARVESTING USING PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER: IMPROVED SPICE MODEL, SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................................................................ 682 Gianluigi De Giuseppe, Alfonso Centuori, Angelo Malvasi A METHODOLOGY FOR DESIGNING POWER MANAGEMENT IN AUTONOMOUS LOW-POWER NODES..................... 688 Aikaterini Kalaitzopoulou, Vasileios Konstantakos, Theodore Laopoulos IMPROVEMENTS ON ROTATING COIL SYSTEMS AT CERN ........................................................................................................ 694 Lucio Fiscarelli, Olaf Dunkel, Stephan Russenschuck DESIGN OF A BITONAL DIELECTRIC RESONATOR FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ANISOTROPIC SURFACE IMPEDANCE ............................................................................................................................................................................. 699 Nicola Pompeo, Kostiantyn Torokhtii, Enrico Silva POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTION: A NEW MATHEMATICAL TOOL TO EXPRESS MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 704 Alessandro Ferrero, Marco Prioli, Simona Salicone SINE-WAVE AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION BY A TWO-POINT INTERPOLATED DFT METHOD ROBUST TO SPECTRAL INTERFERENCE FROM THE IMAGE COMPONENT ........................................................................................... 710 Daniel Belega, Dominique Dallet, Dario Petri ABOUT THE FREQUENTIST AND THE BAYESIAN APPROACH TO UNCERTAINTY.............................................................. 715 Nicola Giaquinto, Laura Fabbiano, Amerigo Trotta, Gaetano Vacca MIDRANGE AS ESTIMATOR OF MEASURED VALUE FOR SAMPLES FROM POPULATION OF UNIFORM AND FLATTEN-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS.................................................................................................................. 721 Zygmunt L. Warsza, Stefan Kubisa EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF A TERABYTE SCALE WEB CORPUS ......................................................................................... 727 Vasilis Kolias, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Eleftherios Kayafas ERROR PROPAGATION IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT & ESTIMATION .............................................................................. 732 Luca Santillo SOFTWARE PRODUCT QUALITY: SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT ITS EVOLUTION AND PERSPECTIVES .......................... 738 Luigi Buglione MEASURING THE DOMAIN-ORIENTED QUALITY OF DIFF ALGORITHMS ............................................................................ 744 Gioele Barabucci, Paolo Ciancarini, Angelo Di Iorio, Fabio Vitali MEASUREMENTS TO ASSESS THE EFFORT RELATED TO DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 750 Alessandro Murgia, Marco Ortu, Roberto Tonelli, Giulio Concas, Michele Marchesi, Steve Counsell ON APPLICABILITY OF IMPULSE-RADAR SENSORS FOR MONITORING OF HUMAN MOVEMENTS ............................ 755 Roman Zdzislaw Morawski, Yevhen Yashchyshyn, Rafal Brzyski, Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, Wieslaw Winiecki 2D VIDEO-BASED HUMAN GAIT ANALYSIS: A NOVEL MARKERLESS APPROACH ............................................................. 761 Andrea Castelli, Gabriele Paolini, Andrea Cereatti, Ugo Della Croce A WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE INTER-FOOT DISTANCE DURING GAIT ........................... 766 Diana Trojaniello, Andrea Cereatti, Alan K Bourke, Kamiar Aminian, Ugo Della Croce PERFORMANCE OF A REMOTE EYE-TRACKER IN MEASURING GAZE DURING WALKING ........................................... 771 Valeria Serchi, Agnese Peruzzi, Andrea Cereatti, Ugo Della Croce MONITORING AND CONTROLLING THE AIR QUALITY- ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS. EVALUATION OF UNCERTAINTY BUDGET ....................................................................................................................................... 776 Fanel Iacobescu, Alexandru Salceanu, Mirela-Adelaida Anghel, Albert-Ciprian Anghel STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN EXPOSURE TO GSM ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD........................... 781 Paolo Bifulco, Attilio Marrese, Nicola Pasquino, Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello MONITORING OF RESPIRATION, SEISMOCARDIOGRAM AND HEART SOUNDS BY A PVDF PIEZO FILM SENSOR............................................................................................................................................................................................... 787 Paolo Bifulco, Gaetano Gargiulo, Giovanni D’Angelo, Annalisa Liccardo, Maria Romano, Fabrizio Clemente, Mario Cesarelli ESTIMATION OF QUANTUM NOISE IN FLUOROSCOPY BY ANALYZING DIFFERENCES OF STATIC IMAGES .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 791 Paolo Bifulco, Maria Romano, Mario Cesarelli, Luigi Iuppariello, Nicola Pasquino USER TRACKING FOR AAL: AN INERTIAL APPROACH ................................................................................................................ 795 Bruno Andò, Salvatore Baglio, Cristian Orazio Lombardo, Vincenzo Marletta A VIBROTACTILE BRACELET TO IMPROVE THE NAVIGATION OF OLDER ADULTS IN LARGE AND CROWDED ENVIRONMENTS .................................................................................................................................................................. 799 Stefano Scheggi, Marco Aggravi, Domenico Prattichizzo RF RANGING BASED ON SPACE DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES AND DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS ................................................ 803 Valter Pasku, Mario Luca Fravolini, Antonio Moschitta WEARABLE INSTRUMENT FOR SKIN POTENTIAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS IN AAL APPLICATIONS ............................... 808 Antonio Affanni, Giovanni Chiorboli UTOKYO VDEC’S CMOS-MEMS TECHNOLOGY VIA NANOTECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FOR PROSPECTIVE INTEGRATED MAGNETIC SENSOR......................................................................................................................... 813 Yoshio Mita, Eric Lebrasseur, Tomoki Sawamura, Naoko Kondo, Kunihiro Asada PCB COIL ARRAY FOR MEASURING CURVED ACCELERATOR DIPOLES: TWO CASE STUDIES ON THE MEDAUSTRON ACCELERATOR ................................................................................................................................................... 817 Giancarlo Golluccio, Anthony Beaumont, Marco Buzio, Olaf Dunkel, Markus Stockner, Thomas Zickler CHALLENGES IN MEASURING THE LONGITUDINAL FIELD PROFILE OF A MAGNET BY A VIBRATING WIRE....................................................................................................................................................................................... 823 Pasquale Arpaia, Domenico Caiazza, Carlo Petrone, Stephan Russenschuck SMALL-DIAMETER ROTATING COILS FOR FIELD QUALITY MEASUREMENTS IN QUADRUPOLE MAGNETS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 828 H. Braun, M. Buzio, R. Deckardt, O. Dunkel, R. Felder, L. Fiscarelli, R. Ganter, S. Kasaei, F. Löhl, S. Sanfilippo, G. Severino, V. Vrankovic, L. Walckiers SIMULATION, MEASUREMENT AND TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR PSEUDO RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CIRCUITS............................................................................................................................................................................ 834 Galia Marinova, Zdravka Tchobanova GENERALIZED EXTREMAL OPTIMIZATION OF PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE TO ENHANCE MONITORING OF LARGE EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS................................................................................................................... 840 Pasquale Arpaia, Mario Girone, Domenico Maisto, Carlo Manna, Marco Pezzetti THE NON-PARAMETRIC AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION USING MSL WINDOWS ........................................................................ 845 Tomaž Lušin, Damir Ilic, Dušan Agrež ON THE ACCURACY OF VECTOR METRICS FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN IMAGE FILTERING ................................ 851 Fabrizio Russo KINEMATIC EVALUATION OF HORIZONTAL REACHING MOVEMENTS IN ROTATOR CUFF DISEASE DURING ROBOTIC REHABILITATION................................................................................................................................................. 857 Luigi Iuppariello, Giovanni D’Addio, Paolo Bifulco, Giuliana Faiella, Bernardo Lanzillo, Nicola Pappone, Mario Cesarelli USING WEARABLE SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE............................. 863 Erika Rovini, Dario Esposito, Carlo Maremmani, Paolo Bongioanni, Filippo Cavallo INSTRUMENT FOR THE ESTIMATION OF COGNITIVE AND MOTOR CONTROL FUNCTION OF HUMAN MOVEMENT ................................................................................................................................................................................. 869 Enrico M. Staderini, Jérôme Rampazzo COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF GAIT TEMPORAL PARAMETERS USING A SINGLE INERTIAL SENSOR MOUNTED ON THE LOWER TRUNK: APPLICATION TO ELDERLY AND HEMIPARETIC SUBJECTS ..................................................................................................... 875 Diana Trojaniello, Andrea Cereatti, Laura Mori, Andrea Ravaschio, Ugo Della Croce MEASUREMENT TIME OPTIMIZATION OF IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO A VIBRATING WIRE VISCOSITY SENSOR........................................................................................................................................... 881 José Santos, Fernando M. Janeiro, Pedro M. Ramos ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY CIRCUIT IDENTIFICATION THROUGH GENE EXPRESSION PROGRAMMING.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 886 Fernando M. Janeiro, Jorge R. Costa, Carlos A. Fernandes, Pedro M. Ramos MONITORING OF EARTH-FILL DAM AND SNOW COVER USING EIS METHOD.................................................................... 890 Jana Parílková, Jaroslav Veselý, Michael Novák EFFECT OF ELECTRODE CONTACT IMPEDANCE MISMATCH ON 4-ELECTRODE MEASUREMENTS OF SMALL BODY SEGMENTS USING COMMERCIAL BIA DEVICES .......................................................................................... 896 Paco Bogónez -Franco, Pascale Pham, Claudine Gehin, Bertrand Massot, Georges Delhomme, Regis Guillemaud, Eric McAdams SCATTERING OF MICROWAVES IN THIN METALLIC FILMS NEAR THE METAL - NON-METAL TRANSITION................................................................................................................................................................................................. 901 Jan Obrzut MAGNETIC SURVEY OF LARGE MAGNETS: A 1 TO 5 SCALE MODEL SYSTEM .................................................................... 905 K. Buhagiar, Philippe Lerch, A. Gabard, Marco Buzio, Stephane Sanfilippo, A. Foussat A FLUXMETER BASED ON TRANSLATING COILS FOR AXIALLY-SYMMETRIC MAGNETS ............................................. 911 Pasquale Arpaia, Marco Buzio, Mario Kazazi, Stephan Russenschuck EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A ROTATING COIL TRANSDUCER FOR LOCAL MULTIPOLE SCANNING ........................................................................................................................................................................... 916 Pasquale Arpaia, Marco Buzio, Ernesto De Matteis, Olaf Dunkel, Stephan Russenschuck CALIBRATING THE SENSING-COIL RADIUS BY FEED-DOWN FROM A HARMONIC REFERENCE................................. 921 Pasquale Arpaia, Marco Buzio, O. Köster, Stephan Russenschuck, Giordana Severino HIGH-ACCURACY TESLAMETER WITH THIN THREE-AXIS HALL PROBE ............................................................................ 927 Dragana Popovic Renella, Sasa Dimitrijevic, Sasa Spasic, Radivoje S. Popovic 1 Ω–10 KΩ HIGH PRECISION RESISTANCE SETUP TO CALIBRATE MULTIFUNCTION ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTS............................................................................................................................................................................................. 933 Pier Paolo Capra, Flavio Galliana, Marco Lanzillotti TRACEABILITY FOR ACCURATE RESISTIVE DIVIDERS .............................................................................................................. 938 Umberto Pogliano, Bruno Trinchera, Danilo Serazio NEW GENERATION OF CAGE-TYPE CURRENT SHUNTS AT CMI............................................................................................... 943 Vera Nováková Zachovalová, Martin Šíra, Pavel Bednár DC VOLTAGE LINEARITY MEASUREMENTS AND DVM CALIBRATION WITH CONVENTIONAL AND PROGRAMMABLE JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS .............................................................................................................. 948 Regis Pinheiro Landim, Waldemar Guilherme Kürten Ihlenfeld RECENT RESULTS ON THE POWER QUALITY OF ITALIAN 2X25 KV 50 HZ RAILWAYS .................................................... 954 Jacopo Bongiorno, Andrea Mariscotti CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF MEASUREMENTS IN AC POWER SUPPLY OF DC TRACTION SUBSTATIONS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF HARMONIC DISTURBANCES........................................................... 959 Adam Szelag, Tadeusz Maciolek, Marek Patoka EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE ELECTRIC NETWORK MODEL OF THE ITALIAN 2X25 KV 50 HZ RAILWAY................................................................................................................................................................................................ 965 Jacopo Bongiorno, Andrea Mariscotti DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A POWER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM OVER INTERNET.......................... 972 Irwin A. Diaz-Diaz, Ilse Cervantes UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT IN THE MEASUREMENTS OF LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS....................... 977 Salvatore Caldara, Rosario Miceli, Pietro Romano, Ciro Spataro, Fabio Viola BIG DATA AND EFFICIENCY OF PV PLANTS..................................................................................................................................... 982 Silvano Vergura SIMULATION OF COLOURING METHODS FOR SILICON PV CELLS ......................................................................................... 988 Massimiliano Bestetti, Giancarlo Bernasconi, Sergio Brofferio, Loredana Cristaldi IMPACT OF DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE OUTPUT BEHAVIOUR OF PHOTOVOLTAICS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 994 Christian Schuss, Toni Kotikumpu, Bernd Eichberger, Timo Rahkonen MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC AND THERMAL CONCENTRATOR PLANT .......................... 1000 Alberto Reatti, Lorenzo Ciani, Marian K. Kazimierczuk, DYNAMIC AND RECONFIGURABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC EMULATOR BASED ON FPAA ...................................................... 1006 Francesco Barra, Marco Balato, Luigi Costanzo, Daniele Gallo, Carmine Landi, Mario Luiso, Massimo Vitelli SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN PRIMARY VOLTAGE METROLOGY AT INRIM ........................................................................... 1012 Andrea Sosso, Paolo Durandetto, Matteo Fretto, Vincenzo Lacquaniti EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING THE CRITICAL CURRENT IN SUPERCONDUCTING STRANDS...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1016 Valentina Corato, Gianluca De Marzi, Chiarasole Fiamozzi Zignani, Luigi Muzzi, Rosario Viola, Antonio Della Corte THE MGB2 BULK CYLINDERS AS MAGNETIC SHIELDS FOR PHYSICAL INSTRUMENTATION ..................................... 1021 Giovanni Giunchi MEASURING THE MICROWAVE RESPONSE OF SUPERCONDUCTORS: BROADBAND CORBINO AND RESONANT STRIPLINE TECHNIQUES ............................................................................................................................................... 1026 Marc Scheffler, M. Maximilian Felger, Markus Thiemann, Daniel Hafner, Katrin Schlegel, Martin Dressel, Konstantin S. Ilin, Michael Siegel, Silvia Seiro, Christoph Geibel, Frank Steglich A SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETER FOR TERAHERTZ RADIATION DETECTION .......................................................... 1032 Guido Torrioli, Sara Cibella, Fabio Chiarello, Roberto Leoni, Pasquale Carelli, Roberto Casini, Giorgio Dall’Oglio, Licia Pizzo, Lucia Sabbatini ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR RELIABILITY AND CURRENT CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENTS OF FLASH NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES ........................................................................................................ 1037 Vincenzo Della Marca, Tariq Wakrim, Jérémy Postel-Pellerin, Pierre Canet VERY LOW TUNNELING CURRENT MEASUREMENTS USING THE FLOATING-GATE TECHNIQUE IN A VERY LOW-NOISE ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................................................ 1042 Jérémy Postel-Pellerin, Gilles Micolau, Philippe Chiquet, Jeanne Melkonian, Guillaume Just, Daniel Boyer, Cyril Ginoux OPTIMAL NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF 1/F NOISE SPECTRUM IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1047 Paolo Magnone, Pier Andrea Traverso, Claudio Fiegna CONSIDERATIONS ON MEASUREMENT OF LOW FREQUENCY EMISSIONS GENERATED BY TRACTION VEHICLES............................................................................................................................................................................. 1053 Marek Patoka, Adam Szelag, Tadeusz Maciolek COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SIGNAL CABLE IMPACT IN DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITIVE POSITION MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................................................................................. 1058 Pasquale Arpaia, Ernesto De Matteis, Donato De Paola, Mateusz Sosin TRAIN CARBODY EMC SHIELDING MEASUREMENT .................................................................................................................. 1064 Riccardo Briante, Pina Imbesi RESPONSE SURFACE-BASED DESIGN OF STANDARD INDUCTANCES FOR MINIMIZING PARASITIC CAPACITANCES ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1069 Pasquale Arpaia, Luca Sabato TWO DIFFERENT WAYS IN EVALUATING THE UNCERTAINTY OF S-PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS...................... 1075 Marco Sellone, Nosherwan Shoaib, Luca Callegaro, Luciano Brunetti A PERSPECTIVE ON ADVANCED SIGNAL GENERATION TECHNIQUES ................................................................................ 1081 Aldo Baccigalupi, Mauro D’Arco, Annalisa Liccardo ANALYSING THE EFFECT OF CONICAL COAXIAL PROBE ANGLE IN DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1087 Homa Arab, Cevdet Akyel NOISE WITH COLORED POWER SPECTRUM DERIVED FROM A SINGLE BIT WHITE NOISE INPUT .......................... 1091 Ettore Napoli, Giorgio Lopez, Antonio G. M. Strollo THE NEW POWER PROCESSOR AND ITS APPLICATION FOR AC POWER AND ENERGY MEASUREMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1096 Jerzy Kolanko, Piotr Modzel, Zbigniew Wierzbicki, Janusz Dudzik, Przemyslaw Musz A COMPRESSED SAMPLING-BASED METHOD COMPLIANT WITH IEC 61000-4-30 FOR HARMONIC AND INTERHARMONIC MEASUREMENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 1102 Francesco Bonavolontà, Massimo D'Apuzzo, Annalisa Liccardo, Gianfranco Miele AN ADVANCED TRACEABILITY SYSTEM BASED ON SEMIACTIVE RFID DEVICES .......................................................... 1107 Francesco Abate, Giuseppe Di Leo, Alfredo Paolillo, Vincenzo Paciello A SOFTWARE SENSOR FOR MOTORCYCLE SUSPENSION STROKE........................................................................................ 1111 Consolatina Liguori, Vincenzo Paciello, Antonio Pietrosanto, Paolo Sommella THE EFFECT OF SAVITZKY-GOLAY SMOOTHING FILTER ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A VEHICULAR DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS METHOD............................................................................................................... 1117 Leopoldo Angrisani, Domenico Capriglione, Gianni Cerro, Luigi Ferrigno, Gianfranco Miele A LOW-COST ULTRASONIC RANGEFINDER BASED ON FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1123 Luigi Battaglini, Pietro Burrascano, Alessio De Angelis, Antonio Moschitta, Marco Ricci ARCHITECTURE OF THE MONITORING SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR AN ACTIVE GUARD RAIL....................................... 1128 Giuseppe Caliano, Luca De Vito, Francesco Paolo Di Candia, Gianluca Mazzilli, Francesco Picariello Author Index