Edgar Dietrich
CAPABILITY OF MEASUREMENT PROCESSES BASED ON ISO/FDIS 22514-7 AND VDA 5

Calculations of capability and performance indices are based on measurement results. The uncertainty of the measurement process used to generate capability and performance indices must be estimated before the indices can be meaningful. The actual measurement uncertainty needs to be adequately small.
To demonstrate the suitability of measurement processes, were in the industrial production process based on the MSA version 4 (AIAG Measurement System Analysis) is used.
Another procedure is based on the ISO 98-3 ISO; Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). But this is not practical in production. Therefore, the ISO 22514-7 was published. This document is in the FDIS (Final Draft ISO) status and will be official until mid- 2012 as an ISO Standard. The VDA 5; Measurement Process Capability is also based on this new standard.

Tsukasa Watanabe
COMPACT SELF-CALIBRATABLE ROTARY ENCODER

SelfA (Self-calibratable Angle device) rotary encoder has an advanced function that can detect and estimate the angular deviation in the signal by itself. National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) developed the small and low cost SelfA encoder with keeping high accuracy ± 0.2".

A. Bruno Gil, B. Raul Martins, C. Isabel Rocha
NON-INVASIVE BLADDER VOLUME MONITORIZATION THROUGH NON-GALVANIC ELECTRODES

In this paper we study the feasibility of bringing together the classic rheographic volume measurement approach with non-galvanic electrodes which would allow for a fatigue free holter approach in daily monitoring of bladder volume. This approach relies on a multi-frequency FPGA-based system. This viability analysis will be approached both regarding the measurement accuracy and robustness to motion artifacts. In this preliminary study focus is essentially on the accuracy.

Mokhaled M., Mohammed, Imran M. Khan, Sheroz Khan, Jalel Chebil, Khalid A. S. Al-Khateeb
UWB PULSE GENERATION AND MODULATION FOR SIGNAL EXTRACTION FROM IMPLANTABLE DEVICES

Ultra WideBand (UWB) communication systems have been undergoing tremendous developments over the recent past years. The areas of interests are industrial automation, identification for short range geolocational positioning systems and for extraction of signals from implants and wearable gadgets used in the bio-medical field. Such interests are the motivation of exploring this technology in terms of its utility in estimating the bit-error-rate (BER) various modulation techniques offer as performance indices. In this paper, a UWB pulse generator is designed and the performance of different modulation techniques utilizing the same pulse generator is presented. The results include frequency domain power spectral density estimates for gauging the power requirements and BER for highlighting its performance index for benchmarking purposes. The power spectral density of the different modulated streams is also compared to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mask to check the adherence to the FCC power emission regulations.

Jovan Bojkovski, Dejan Durdevic
DIAGNOSTIC OF MAXILLOFACIAL PATHOLOGY

This paper describes importance of use of modern temperature measuring equipment in diagnostic of maxillofacial pathology. Each change in the maxillofacial region of human body caused by tumour, inflammation or other disease typically causes small change in temperature on the skin of patient. In this paper, we will present preliminary study and suggest procedures how to detect these temperature changes with use of thermal imagining cameras.