• Fluxgate sensor with increased homogeneity 

      Autor: Ripka, Pavel; Jireš, František; Macháček, Milan
      (IEEE, 1990-09)
      Several types of fluxgate sensors were developed for measuring microvariations of the earth's magnetic field. Sensor cores were produced by etching, leading to better geometric homogeneity and long-term stability. This ...
    • Fluxgate: Tuned vs. Untuned Output 

      Autor: Ripka, Pavel; Billingsley, S.W.
      (IEEE, 1998-07)
      Fluxgate voltage output contains information about the measured DC magnetic field in amplitude of even harmonic components. Tuning the sensor output causes the concentration of output energy to specific harmonics (usually ...
    • Giant Magnetoimpedance Sensors 

      Autor: Hauser, Hans; Kraus, Luděk; Ripka, Pavel
      (IEEE, 2001-06)
      Magnetoinductance and giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) sensors have greatly benefited from the development of amorphous wires. These soft ferromagnetic substances exhibit exquisite sensitivity (in the nT range) and wide bandwidth ...
    • Impact of Different Active-Speech-Ratios on PESQ’s Predictions in Case of Independent and Dependent Losses (in Presence of Receiver-Side Comfort-Noise) 

      Autor: Počta, P.; Holub, J.; Vlčková, H.; Polková, Z.
      (2010)
      This paper deals with the investigation of PESQ’s behavior under independent and dependent loss conditions from an Active-Speech-Ratio perspective in presence of receiver-side comfort-noise. This reference signal ...
    • Impact of Different Active-Speech-Ratios on PESQ’s Predictions in Simulated VoIP Environment 

      Autor: Počta, P.; Holub, J.; Mrvová, M.
      (2009)
      In this work, we experimentally study how behaviour of the PESQ predictions varies with reference signal characteristic. In particular we investigate the impact of different Active-Speech-Ratios on speech quality ...
    • Inductance position sensor for pneumatic cylinder 

      Autor: Ripka, Pavel; Chirtsov, Andrey; Mirzaei, Mehran; Vyhnánek, Jan
      (American Institute of Physics, 2018)
      The position of the piston in pneumatic cylinder with aluminum wall can be measured by external inductance sensor without modifications of the aluminum piston and massive iron piston rod. For frequencies below 20 Hz the ...
    • Influence of External Current on Yokeless Electric Current Transducers 

      Autor: Ripka, P.; Chirtsov, A.
      (IEEE, 2017)
      Yokeless electric current transducers have compact size, but they are sensitive to external magnetic fields, including those caused by electric currents in their vicinity. It is often believed that this unwanted sensitivity ...
    • Linearity of Pulse Excited Coil-Less Fluxgate 

      Autor: Butta, Mattia; Ripka, Pavel
      (IEEE, 2009-10)
      In this paper, we study the open-loop linearity of pulse excited coil-less fluxgate. Narrow current pulses can be used instead of classical sinewave for the excitation of the coil-less fluxgate. This method has shown several ...
    • Low-Power Printed Circuit Board Fluxgate Sensor 

      Autor: Kubík, Jan; Pavel, Lukáš; Ripka, Pavel; Kašpar, Petr
      (IEEE, 2007-02)
      A new printed circuit board flat fluxgate sensor with integrated coils and amorphous alloy core was developed and its excitation parameters optimized for low-power consumption. The power consumption achieved with 10 kHz, ...
    • Magnetic Microwires With Field-Induced Helical Anisotropy for Coil-Less Fluxgate 

      Autor: Butta, M.; Ripka, P.; Infante, G.; Badini-Confalonieri, G. A.; Vázquez, M.
      (IEEE, 2010-07)
      We present a new method for production of magnetic microwire with helical anisotropy. Coil-less fluxgate sensors are generally composed of a bimetallic wire excited by an alternating current; in order for the wire to work ...
    • Multiple Layer Scanning in Magnetopneumography 

      Autor: Tomek, Jiří; Platil, Antonín; Ripka, Pavel
      (IEEE, 2009-04)
      In magnetopneumography (MPG), we scan weak remanent magnetic fields (in the range of nT) of ferromagnetic dust deposited in the lungs of affected workers. This is carried out in an unshielded lab. Variations of the background ...
    • Off-Center Error Correction of AMR Yokeless Current Transducer 

      Autor: Mlejnek, Pavel; Ripka, Pavel
      (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2017)
      We present a method of calibration and error correction of the AMR yokeless current transducer consisting of a circular array of eight anisotropic magnetoresistors (AMR) with one feedback compensation loop. The main sources ...
    • Predicting the Quality of Synthesized and Natural Speech Impaired by Packet Loss and Coding Using PESQ and P.563 Models 

      Autor: Počta, P.; Holub, J.
      (2011)
      This paper investigates the impact of independent and dependent losses and coding on speech quality predictions provided by PESQ (also known as ITU-T P.862) and P.563 models, when both naturally-produced and synthesized speech ...
    • Pulse Excitation of Micro-Fluxgate Sensors 

      Autor: Ripka, Pavel; Choi, San On; Tipek, Alois; Kawahito, Shoji; Ishida, Makoto
      (IEEE, 2001-07)
      Miniature fluxgate sensors with symmetrical closed core elements on both sides of the planar coils were manufactured using standard microtechnology. The new sensors have shown substantial improvement over the standard ...
    • Sensitivity and Noise of Wire-Core Transverse Fluxgate 

      Autor: Ripka, Pavel; Butta, Mattia; Jie, Fan; Li, Xiaoping
      (IEEE, 2010-02)
      Fluxgate sensors with cores made of amorphous microwire have low sensitivity due to the small cross-sectional area of the wire. Previous studies with multiwire cores have shown nonlinear increase of sensitivity with number ...
    • Single-core fluxgate gradiometer with simultaneous gradient and homogeneous feedback operation 

      Autor: Janošek, Michal; Ripka, Pavel; Ludwig, Frank; Schilling, Meinhard
      (American Institute of Physics, 2012-03-06)
      A novel configuration of a single-core gradiometer, utilizing both homogeneous and gradient feedback operation, is presented. The fluxgate gradiometer comprises of a standard pick-up/ feedback coil and an additional gradient ...
    • Two-Domain Model for Orthogonal Fluxgate 

      Autor: Butta, Mattia; Ripka, Pavel
      (IEEE, 2008-11)
      In this paper a new model for orthogonal fluxgate is presented. A first attempt to explain the working principle of the orthogonal fluxgates was done in the 1970's. We show that this model does not work well on recently ...