Date Available

12-3-2014

Year of Publication

2014

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

College

Engineering

Department/School/Program

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor

Dr. Zhi D. Chen

Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Dr. Yuan Liao

Abstract

Humidity measurement has been increasingly important in many industries and process control applications. This thesis research focus mainly on humidity sensor calibration and characterization. The humidity sensor instrumentation is briefly described. The testing infrastructure was designed for sensor data acquisition, in order to compensate the humidity sensor’s temperature coefficient, temperature chambers using Peltier elements are used to achieve easy-controllable stable temperatures. The sensor characterization falls into a multivariate interpolation problem. Neuron networks is tried for non-linear data fitting, but in the circumstance of limited training data, an innovative algorithm was developed to utilize shape preserving polynomials in multiple planes in this kind of multivariate interpolation problems.

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