Electrodynamics Sensor for the Image Reconstruction Process in an Electrical Charge Tomography System.docVIP

Sensors 2009, 9, 10291-10308; doi:10.3390/OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Electrodynamics Sensor for the Image Reconstruction Process in an Electrical Charge Tomography System Mohd Fua’ad Rahmat 1,*, Mohd Daud Isa 2, Ruzairi Abdul Rahim 1 and Tengku Ahmad Raja Hussin 3 1 Control and Instrumentation Engineering Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Technologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bharu, Johor, Malaysia; E-Mail: ruzairi@fke.utm.my 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Politeknik Kota Bharu, KM.24 Kok Lanas, 16400 Ketereh, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia; E-Mail: peppkb@ 3 Department of General Studies, Politeknik Kota Bharu, KM.24 Kok Lanas, 16400 Ketereh, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia; E-Mail: tabs2104@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: fuaad@fke.utm.my. Received: 28 October 2009; in revised form: 24 November 2009 / Accepted: 6 December 2009/ Published: 18 December 2009 Abstract: Electrical charge tomography (EChT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that is aimed to reconstruct the image of materials being conveyed based on data measured by an electrodynamics sensor installed around the pipe. Image reconstruction in electrical charge tomography is vital and has not been widely studied before. Three methods have been introduced before, namely the linear back projection method, the filtered back projection method and the least square method. These methods normally face ill-posed problems and their solutions are unstable and inaccurate. In order to ensure the stability and accuracy, a special solution should be applied to obtain a meaningful image reconstruction result. In this paper, a new image reconstruction method – Least squares with regularization (LSR) will be introduced to reconstruct the image of material in a gravity mode conveyor pipeline for electrical charge tomog