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Development And Evaluation Of A Real-Time Framework For A Portable Assistive Hearing Device, Aleksandar Dimitrov Mihaylov
Development And Evaluation Of A Real-Time Framework For A Portable Assistive Hearing Device, Aleksandar Dimitrov Mihaylov
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Testing and verification of digital hearing aid devices, and the embedded software and algorithms can prove to be a challenging task especially taking into account time-to-market considerations. This thesis describes a PC based, real-time, highly configurable framework for the evaluation of audio algorithms. Implementation of audio processing algorithms on such a platform can provide hearing aid designers and manufacturers the ability to test new and existing processing techniques and collect data about their performance in real-life situations, and without the need to develop a prototype device. The platform is based on the Eurotech Catalyst development kit and the Fedora Linux …
Development Of A Novel Handheld Device For Active Compensation Of Physiological Tremor, Abhijit Saxena
Development Of A Novel Handheld Device For Active Compensation Of Physiological Tremor, Abhijit Saxena
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In microsurgery, the human hand imposes certain limitations in accurately positioning the tip of a device such as scalpel. Any errors in the motion of the hand make microsurgical procedures difficult and involuntary motions such as hand tremors can make some procedures significantly difficult to perform. This is particularly true in the case of vitreoretinal microsurgery. The most familiar source of involuntary motion is physiological tremor. Real-time compensation of tremor is, therefore, necessary to assist surgeons to precisely position and manipulate the tool-tip to accurately perform a microsurgery. In this thesis, a novel handheld device (AID) is described for compensation …
A Study For Detection Of Drift In Sensor Measurements, Sungwhan Cho
A Study For Detection Of Drift In Sensor Measurements, Sungwhan Cho
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This study aims to develop methods for detection of drift in sensor measurements. The study consists of three major components; 1) residual generation, 2) statistical change detection, and 3) model building.
To identify the statistical properties of the residuals and to utilize them for detection of the drift, a new method for estimation of the drift rate is proposed. The method formulates an augmented system matrix model and processes the model using a Kalman filter. An analytical method for estimation of the drift rate is also derived. A Hamiltonian approach is used for evaluation of the steady state covariance of …
Metrics For Evaluating Surgical Microscope Usage During Myringotomy, Arefin M. Shamsil
Metrics For Evaluating Surgical Microscope Usage During Myringotomy, Arefin M. Shamsil
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Abstract
Although teaching and learning surgical microscope manoeuvring is a fundamental step in middle ear surgical training, currently there is no objective method to teach or assess this skill. This thesis presents an experimental study designed to implement and test sets of metrics capable of numerically evaluating microscope manoeuvrability and qualitatively assessing surgical expertise of a subject during a middle ear surgery called myringotomy. The experiment involved performing a myringotomy on a fixed cadaveric ear. As participants, experienced ear-nose-throat (ENT) surgeons and ENT surgical residents were invited. While performing the procedure, their microscope manoeuvring motions were captured as translational and …
Technique For Measurement Of Weld Resistance For Ac Resistance Spot Welding Via Instantaneous Phasor Measurement, Mian Mohsin Irshad
Technique For Measurement Of Weld Resistance For Ac Resistance Spot Welding Via Instantaneous Phasor Measurement, Mian Mohsin Irshad
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The resistance measurement in the resistance spot welding (RSW), is an ongoing research topic. The high current flow during the welding process induces an electromagnetic field in the wires which are attached to the electrodes to measure tip voltage. This results an additional voltage drop which is proportional to the derivative of current. Also the presence of silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) in the welding power supply generates harmonics in both supply voltage and current. These issues together complicate the methods for resistance estimation.
A set of simultaneous linear equations is derived for the on-line measurement of dynamic resistance and induced …