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TC-6-Technical Committee
on Emerging Technologies in
Measurement: Opening the Doors
to Our Measurement Future
Vedran Bilas and Vincenzo Piuri
T
his technical committee is serving as incubator to
nurture emerging technologies and application areas
which are relevant to the field of instrumentation
and measurement science, methodologies, technologies, and
systems.
In the past years, several areas have been explored, technical
meetings (including special sessions in I2MTC, the
major conference of our Society, and workshops) have been
organized to broaden the analysis and discussion, and related
communities have been aggregated in our Society. The
committee organized special sessions also in other IEEE conferences
to attract attention on the specific areas in incubation
and promote the instrumentation and measurement principles,
methods, and technologies in other communities. Finally,
the committee organized special issues in the IEEE Transactions
on Instrumentation and Measurement, in our I&M Magazine, and
in other journals on the emerging areas. These efforts resulted
in some technical committees in our Society, like Intelligent
Measurement Systems and Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems.
In addition, the TC-6 inspired also the creation of other
groups and technical committees.
The TC-6 has been recently started focusing on measurement
for autonomous vehicles and quantum computing
technologies. Autonomous vehicles (such as those that fly or
are underwater) have become a widespread and affordable
tool for many sensing and measurement applications (such as
inspection and testing of infrastructure, environmental monitoring
and mariculture or agriculture), combining time and
spatial coverage and accessibility unattainable with other
technologies. A new generation of rovers are engaged in the
space missions. There is a demand for development of new
and advanced instruments as well as their calibration and testing.
Instruments for astronomical observations measuring the
Earth's atmosphere and telescope throughput are subject of interdisciplinary
research and development activities towards
accurate photometric measurements.
For quantum technologies, TC-6 started studying to determine
the main technical areas in which the experience and
expertise in our measurement community could be useful for
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supporting more efficiently the development and implementation
of the quantum-based systems. Recently, there have
been breakthroughs in accurate measurement of atomic qubit
states that is a key step in the development of quantum
computers.
If you are interested in one of these areas, as well as in proposing
new emerging topics from the technological point of
view, or are involved in an application area which is not already
covered by other technical committees of our Society,
you are warmly encouraged to contact us and work with TC-6
for the benefit of our scientific and professional community!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Vedran Bilas (SM) (vedran.bilas@fer.hr) is a Full Professor of
electrical engineering and Research Group Leader of the Laboratory
for Intelligent Sensor Systems at the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
His research interests are in the areas of sensor application,
computational sensors, low power electronic systems, sensor
interfaces and signal processing, networked embedded
sensors, electromagnetic induction sensors and electronic instrumentation
for harsh environments. He received the Ph.D.
degree in electronics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in
1999. He was the founding Chair of the IMS IEEE Croatia Section
from 2003-2010. He also served as a member of the IEEE
Sensors Application Symposium Steering Committee from
2014-2017. He was General Co-chair of the IEEE SAS 2015 in
Zadar, Croatia and Technical Program Co-chair of the IEEE
SAS 2016 in Catania, Italy. Prof. Bilas received the IEEE Croatia
Section Annual Award for Distinguished Engineering Educator
in 2011.
Vincenzo Piuri (vincenzo.piuri@unimi.it) is Full Professor in
computer engineering and is the Director of the Department
of Information Technology at the University of Milan, Italy,
where he received his Ph.D. in computer engineering in 1989.
He has been Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University
of Milan, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas
at Austin, Texas and at George Mason University, Fairfax,
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