Publications related to Normalized frequency (signal processing)

A technique for non-intrusive greedy piecewise-rational model reduction of frequency response problems over wide frequency bands

In the field of model order reduction for frequency response problems, the minimal rational interpolation (MRI) method has been shown to be quite effective. However, in some cases, numerical instabilities may arise when applying MRI to build a surrogate mo ...

2022

Step detection in power system waveforms for improved RoCoF and frequency estimation

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo, Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

The evaluation of the signal frequency and Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF) from voltage or current waveforms is used for critical grid control, monitoring and protection applications. However, when step changes in the amplitude or phase of the signal o ...

Elsevier2022

Analysis system and method for analysing the movement of a portion of the body and/or of a human prosthesis

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Fiorenzo Artoni

An analysis method (200) for analysing the pressure exerted by a portion of the body and/or of a human prosthesis comprises the following steps: sampling data generated by the portion of the body and/or the human prosthesis during a threshold calibration p ...

2021

Uncertain Sampling with Certain Priors

Golnooshsadat Elhami

Sampling has always been at the heart of signal processing providing a bridge between the analogue world and discrete representations of it, as our ability to process data in continuous space is quite limited. Furthermore, sampling plays a key part in unde ...

EPFL2021

Input-Admittance Passivity Compliance for Grid-Connected Converters With an LCL Filter

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Enrique Rodriguez Diaz

This work presents a design methodology and its experimental validation for the input-admittance passivity compliance of LCL grid-connected converters. The designs of the LCL filter parameters and discrete controller are addressed systematically, and suita ...

2019

Optimized Sampling Rate for Voltammetry-Based Electrochemical Sensing in Wearable and IoT Applications

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa

The recent advancements in electrochemical measurements are guiding the development of new platforms for in situ point-of-care monitoring of human-metabolite, markers, and drugs. Despite this, the application of voltammetry-based sensing (VBS) techniques i ...

2019

Investigating The Size-Dependent Static And Dynamic Behavior Of Circular Micro-Plates Subjected To Capillary Force

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan

The size-dependent static deflection, pull-in instability and resonant frequency of a circular microplate under capillary force have been studied using modified couple stress elasticity theory. SiZe-dependency is a phenomenon in which the normalized quanti ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Wearable, multi-parametric wireless system-in-patch for hydration level monitoring

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Hoël Maxime Guérin

Wearable system based on an in-situ four-probe impedance measurement at different signal frequencies for the topical monitoring of at least one physiological parameter reflecting the hydration status such as skin conductivity, ion concentration in sweat or ...

2016

Real-Time Control of Microgrids with Explicit Power Setpoints: Unintentional Islanding

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Andrey Bernstein

We propose a method to perform a safe unintentional islanding maneuver of microgrids. The method is derived in the context of a framework for the real-time control of microgrids, called Commelec, recently proposed by the authors. The framework uses a hiera ...

IEEE2015

Multiresolution Information Mining for Pavement Crack Image Analysis

Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel

Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is a multiresolution data analysis method recently developed to cater to the inherent nonstationarity in real-world signals. A two-dimensional (2D) extension of EMD is used in this paper as a pavement distress image analy ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2012

A speckle-based CMOS sensor array for arbitrary surface movement detection

Pierre-André Farine, Chao Wang, Steve Tanner

The paper presents a CMOS sensor array for the detection of speckle movements, for applications requiring accurate movement tracking of arbitrary surfaces. The array is made of eight sensors incorporating each a spatial comb filter with a pitch of 2.8μm so ...

SPIE Society2011

Robust Controller Design by Convex Optimization based on Finite Frequency Samples of Spectral Models

Alireza Karimi, Roland Longchamp, Gorka Galdos Sanz de Galdeano

Some frequency-domain controller design problems are solved using a finite number of frequency samples. Consequently, the performance and stability conditions are not guaranteed for the frequencies between the frequency samples. In this paper, all possible ...

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Subthreshold Current-Mode Delta-Sigma Quantizer with 3-Decade Scalable Sampling Rate and pico-Ampere Range Resolution

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici

A current-mode

\Delta\Sigma

analog-to-digital data converter (ADC) for biomedical readout front-end systems is being presented. The core of this circuit is a current-controlled ring oscillator (CCO) whose oscillation frequency is proportional to the inpu ...

2010

Fixed-Order Robust Controller Design by Convex Optimization Using Spectral Models

Gorka Galdos Sanz de Galdeano

This thesis proposes a new method to design fixed-order controllers in frequency domain using convex optimization. The method is based on the shaping of open-loop transfer function in the Nyquist diagram with infinity norm constraints on weighted closed-lo ...

EPFL2010

A 16-bit, 150-μW, 1-kS/s ADC with hybrid incremental and cyclic conversion scheme

Pierre-André Farine, Luca Rossi, Steve Tanner

This paper presents the design, realization and characterization of a new hybrid A/D converter based on a combined incremental and cyclic conversion. The proposed implementation offers a configurable resolution, and permits to share the same hardware for t ...

2009

Nanogap MEM resonators on SOI

Nicoleta-Diana Ciressan

Today's consumer electronics based on a large variety of time-keeping and frequency reference applications is based on quartz-crystal oscillators, because of their excellent performances in terms of quality factor, thermal and frequency stability. However, ...

EPFL2009

Music Onset Detection Based on Resonator Time Frequency Image

Marco Mattavelli, Giorgio Zoia, Ruohua Zhou

This paper describes a new method for music onset detection. The novelty of the approach consists mainly of two elements: the time–frequency processing and the detection stages. The resonator time frequency image (RTFI) is the basic time–frequency analysis ...

2008

Hybrid continuous-discrete-time multi-bit delta-sigma A/D converters with auto-ranging algorithm

Sergio Pesenti

In wireless portable applications, a large part of the signal processing is performed in the digital domain. Digital circuits show many advantages. The power consumption and fabrication costs are low even for high levels of complexity. A well established a ...

EPFL2007

An orientation measuring system suitable for routine uses made by the fusion of a 3D gyroscope and a magnetic tracker

Julien Favre

Many studies have shown the efficacy of orientation and three-dimensional joint angle measurement for patient evaluation or rehabilitation purposes. But currently, the use of these systems for routine practice is questionable. The commercially available de ...

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Super-Resolution from Unregistered and Totally Aliased Signals Using Subspace Methods

Martin Vetterli, Luciano Sbaiz, Patrick Vandewalle

In many applications, the sampling frequency is limited by the physical characteristics of the components: the pixel pitch, the rate of the A/D converter, etc. A low-pass filter is then often applied before the sampling operation to avoid aliasing. However ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2007