Development of autonomous triggering instrumentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6932, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Watkins, Steve E ^a,b,c   Swift, Theresa M ^b   Fonda, James W ^b  

^a SPIE ^*

^b University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded systems; Infrared detection; Sensor instrumentation; Smart structures

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DETECTION; SENSOR INSTRUMENTATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 44449099225     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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