Sensors: Detecting, Sensing and Tracking

Sensors are used in everyday objects such as touch-sensitive elevator buttons (tactile sensor) and lamps which dim or brighten by touching the base, besides innumerable applications of which most people are never aware. With advances in micromachinery and easy-to-use microcontroller platforms, the uses of sensors have expanded beyond the more traditional fields of temperature, pressure or flow measurement, for example into MARG sensors. Moreover, analog sensors such as potentiometers and force-sensing resistors are still widely used. Applications include manufacturing and machinery, airplanes and aerospace, cars, medicine and robotics.

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Prof. Leong Wai Yie promovierte in Elektrotechnik an der University of Queensland (UQ), Australien. Wai Yie ist derzeit Vorsitzende der Sektion für weibliche Ingenieure in Malaysia und Vorsitzende der Women Engineers-AFEO (WEAFEO). Sie ist auf medizinische Signalverarbeitung und Telekommunikation spezialisiert und wurde mit dem Richard-Jago-Forschungspreis ausgezeichnet.