APRIL 2015 VOLUME 64 NUMBER 4 IEIMAO (ISSN 0018-9456) SPECIAL SECTION ON SENSOR APPLICATIONS GUEST EDITORIAL Special Section on Sensor Applications ............................................................................ D. Gurkan and S. Baglio 838 SPECIAL SECTION PAPERS A Near-Field Magnetic Sensing System With High-Spatial Resolution and Application for Security of Cryptographic LSIs ....... .......................................................... N. N. Mai-Khanh, T. Iizuka, A. Sasaki, M. Yamada, O. Morita, and K. Asada Microfluidic Injector Simulation With FSAW Sensor for 3-D Integration ....................... T. H. Bui, T. B. Duc, and T. C. Duc The Planar Multipole Resonance Probe: Challenges and Prospects of a Planar Plasma Sensor .......................................... .......................................................................................... C. Schulz, T. Styrnoll, P. Awakowicz, and I. Rolfes Contactless Detection of State Parameter Fluctuations of Gaseous Media Based on an mm-Wave FMCW Radar .................... .................................................................................................. C. Baer, T. Jaeschke, N. Pohl, and T. Musch 840 849 857 865 REGULAR PAPERS Acoustics and Ultrasonics Instrumentation and Measurements An In-Situ Structural Health Diagnosis Technique and Its Realization via a Modularized System ...................................... .................................................................................................................. Q. Wang, M. Hong, and Z. Su 873 A/D and D/A Conversion, Analog and Digital Instrumentation Design and Implementation of A Rail-to-Rail 460-kS/s 10-bit SAR ADC for the Power-Efficient Capacitance Measurement ...... ....................................................................................................................... S. Wang and C. Dehollain A Direct Digital Readout Circuit for Impedance Sensors ......................................................... P. Vooka and B. George 888 902 Analog and Digital Data, Image and Signal Processing UHF RFID Localization Based on Phase Evaluation of Passive Tag Arrays .............. M. Scherhäufl, M. Pichler, and A. Stelzer 913 Instrumentation for Measurement of Electric Power Systems, Energy Metering, Electric Power Quality Calibrated Single-Contact Voltage Sensor for High-Voltage Monitoring Applications ..................................................... ............................................................................................... J. S. Bobowski, M. S. Ferdous, and T. Johnson Fast Measurement of Dielectric Loss Angle With Time-Domain Quasi-Synchronous Algorithm ........................................ ...................................................................................................... K. Wang, Z. Teng, H. Wen, and Q. Tang Estimation of Electromechanical Oscillations From Phasor Measurements Using Second-Order Generalized Integrator ............. ........................................................ M. Mansouri, M. Mojiri, M. A. Ghadiri-Modarres, and M. Karimi-Ghartemani 923 935 943 (Contents Continued on Page 837) (Contents Continued from Front Cover) Imaging Techniques and Instrumentation Spatially Resolved Measurements of Magnetic Fields Applied to Current Distribution Problems in Batteries ......................... ..................................................................................... J. E. Green, D. A. Stone, M. P. Foster, and A. Tennant A Real-Time Palm Dorsa Subcutaneous Vein Pattern Recognition System Using Collaborative Representation-Based Classification ..................................................................................................... S. Joardar, A. Chatterjee, and A. Rakshit 951 959 Mechatronics, Industrial Applications and Robotics Biomimetic Investigation of Intrabolus Pressure Signatures by a Peristaltic Swallowing Robot .......................................... .................................................................................................. S. Dirven, W. Xu, L. K. Cheng, and J. Allen 967 Medical and Biomedical Instrumentation and Applications Lossless Compression Technique for Real-Time Photoplethysmographic Measurements ...................................... R. Gupta 975 Measurement Techniques Speed Estimation of an Induction Motor Operating in the Nonstationary Mode by Using Rotor Slot Harmonics .................... .................................................................................................. W. L. Silva, A. M. N. Lima, and A. Oliveira An Improved Rectangular Cavity Approach for Measurement of Complex Permeability of Materials .................................. ..................................................................................................................... A. K. Jha and M. J. Akhtar Initial Rotor Position Estimation and Sensorless Control of SRM Based on Coordinate Transformation ....... J. Cai and Z. Deng Networking, Networks and Sensor Networks A Low-Cost and Noninvasive System for the Measurement and Detection of Faulty Streetlights ..... H.-C. Lee and H.-B. Huang Low-Complex Synchronization Algorithms for Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks .................................................... .......................................................................... A. Berger, M. Pichler, J. Klinglmayr, A. Pötsch, and A. Springer Optical Instrumentation, Measurement and Systems A Fully Analog High Performances Automatic System for Phase Measurement of Electrical and Optical Signals ................... .................................................................................................... A. De Marcellis, G. Ferri, and E. Palange Simultaneous Measurement of Magnetic Field and Temperature Based on Magnetic Fluid-Infiltrated Photonic Crystal Cavity .... ............................................................................................................ Y. Zhao, Y.-N. Zhang, and R.-Q. Lv Vision-Based On-Loom Measurement of Yarn Densities in Woven Fabrics ............... D. Schneider, Y.-S. Gloy, and D. Merhof Instrument for Real-Time Measurement of Low Turbidity by Using Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Technique .......... ..................................................................................................... H. Wang, Y. Yang, Z. Huang, and H. Gui Sensors, Sensor Fusion and Transducers Assessment and Optimization for Novel Gas Materials Through the Evaluation of Mixed Response Surface Models ............... .................................................................. F. Bertocci, A. Fort, V. Vignoli, L. Shahin, M. Mugnaini, and R. Berni 984 995 1004 1019 1032 1043 1055 1063 1075 1084