Processing of measured acceleration response for SHM purpose

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the process of characterization for existing civil structures that proposes for damage detection and structural identification. It's based firstly on the collection of data that are inevitably affected by noise. In this work a procedure to denoise the measured acceleration signal is proposed, based on EMD-thresholding techniques. Moreover the velocity and displacement responses are estimated, starting from measured acceleration.

Implementazione su fpga di un pre-distorsore digitale a banda larga per sistemi a microonde di backhaul

The development of next generation microwave technology for backhauling systems is driven by an increasing capacity demand. In order to provide higher data rates and throughputs over a point-to-point link, a cost-effective performance improvement is enabled by an enhanced energy-efficiency of the transmit power amplification stage, whereas a combination of spectrally efficient modulation formats and wider bandwidths is supported by amplifiers that fulfil strict constraints in terms of linearity. An optimal trade-off between these conflicting requirements can be achieved by resorting to flexible digital signal processing techniques at baseband. In such a scenario, the adaptive digital pre-distortion is a well-known linearization method, that comes up to be a potentially widely-used solution since it can be easily integrated into base stations. Its operation can effectively compensate for the inter-modulation distortion introduced by the power amplifier, keeping up with the frequency-dependent time-varying behaviour of the relative nonlinear characteristic. In particular, the impact of the memory effects become more relevant and their equalisation become more challenging as the input discrete signal feature a wider bandwidth and a faster envelope to pre-distort. This thesis project involves the research, design and simulation a pre-distorter implementation at RTL based on a novel polyphase architecture, which makes it capable of operating over very wideband signals at a sampling rate that complies with the actual available clock speed of current digital devices. The motivation behind this structure is to carry out a feasible pre-distortion for the multi-band spectrally efficient complex signals carrying multiple channels that are going to be transmitted in near future high capacity and reliability microwave backhaul links.

Progetto di un circuito di elaborazione dati per l'analisi reologica di singoli oggetti in tempo reale

Questo elaborato propone lo studio di un sistema ed il conseguente sviluppo di un’architettura elettronica versatile, capace di effettuare analisi reologiche in tempo reale su singoli oggetti di varia natura, sfruttando diversi metodi e tecnologie elettroniche a disposizione. Un caso particolare su cui ci si è soffermati per sviluppare il sistema riguarda l’implementazione di tecniche innovative di produzione e selezione dei prodotti agricoli. L'elaborato presenta dunque un sistema elettronico capace di effettuare l’analisi reologica con tecniche acustiche di singoli oggetti. Il sistema è stato progettato e costruito per essere versatile ed adattabile a diverse tipologie di applicazioni, mantenendo costi ridotti per renderlo adatto ad eventuali applicazioni industriali.