by Fan Kai Leung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [87-96]). / Abstract / Acknowledgement / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.0 --- Foreword / Chapter 1.1 --- Project Objective / Chapter 1.2 --- Historical Background / Chapter 1.3 --- The properties of Radial Pulse Wave-An Engineering View / Chapter 1.4 --- The development in RPW acquisition and research-An Overview / Chapter 1.5 --- Problems to be solved for RPW data acquisition system / Chapter 1.6 --- The contribution of this project / Chapter Chapter 2 --- System Realisation / Chapter 2.0 --- Foreword / Chapter 2.1 --- System Development-An Overview / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Signal Preprocessing Unit / Chapter 3.0 --- Foreword / Chapter 3.1 --- Earlier Methods for offset Cancellation / Chapter 3.2 --- Feedback control of the offset and d.c. transient cancellation / Chapter 3.3 --- The level shifting circuit / Chapter 3.4 --- Amplifier / Chapter 3.6 --- The 50Hz notch filter / Chapter 3.7 --- The 4th order low pass filter / Chapter 3.8 --- Circuit for controlling valves and pump / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Signal Processing for RPW Acquisition / Chapter 4.0 --- Foreword / Chapter 4.1 --- Artefact and signal noise / Motion artefact / Respiratory Artefact / Base line shift due to tissue displacement / Electromagnetic Interference and circuit noise / Chapter 4.2 --- Artefact Correction by the Switch Capacitive Device(MF-6) / Operating principle / Result and Discussion / Chapter 4.3 --- Artefact Correction by Recursive Moving Average(RMA) / The RMA Operation / Software Implementation of RMA / Chapter 4.4 --- Further Improvement of the RMA baseline estimator / Chapter 4.5 --- Signal Noise Suppression by Non-linear filtering / Chapter 4.6 --- An arithmetic cycle detector for RPW and ECG / Chapter Chapter 5 --- The Software for the DAS / Chapter 5.0 --- Foreword / Chapter 5.1 --- The present DAS software / Chapter 5.2 --- The software design / Chapter 5.3 --- Important points about the software / Signal input / Waveform display and smooth scrolling / Dynamic display area allocation / The software FIFO data buffer / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Recapitulation and Topics for Further Investigation / Chapter 6.0 --- Foreword / Chapter 6.1 --- Recapitulations / Objective / Difficulties / System Realisation / Signal Preprocessing Unit / Signal Processing / The software / Chapter 6.2 --- Direction for further investigation / Improvement to the DAS / Data analysis and modelling research / Appendix A The Comparasion of the RMA and SMA Characteristics / Appendix B List of Publications

Xiang Guoliang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-53). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.1 / Abstract --- p.6 / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 2 --- The Pulse Detection Sensor --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1 --- Pulse Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Pulse Detection Sensor --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- The Sensor Design --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Pulse Signal Acquisition --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Experiment Results --- p.21 / Chapter 3 --- Internet Communication --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1 --- Network Basics --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Java --- p.24 / Chapter 3.3 --- Program Flow Diagram --- p.24 / Chapter 3.4 --- Results --- p.27 / Chapter 4 --- The Haptic Device --- p.28 / Chapter 4.1 --- Overview --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Design --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The First Design --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Prototype --- p.32 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Kinematics --- p.34 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Dynamics --- p.35 / Chapter 4.5 --- Reproducing Pulses by Position Control --- p.37 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- The Motor Controller --- p.37 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Trajectory Following --- p.40 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Experiment Results --- p.41 / Chapter 4.6 --- Reproducing Pulses by Force Control --- p.45 / Chapter 4.6.1 --- The Desired Forces --- p.46 / Chapter 4.6.2 --- The Force Controller Design --- p.46 / Chapter 4.6.3 --- Experiment Results --- p.47 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusions and Future works --- p.49 / Bibliography --- p.51