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. 2021 Apr 22;21(9):2929. doi: 10.3390/s21092929
Acronym
AAF Anti Aliasing Filter
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
AFE Analog Front-End
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIC Akaike Information Criterion
AlN Aluminum Nitride
ANN Artificial Neural Network
ASCS Aircraft Smart Composite Skin
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
BD Big Data
BSS Bioinspired Stretchable Sensors
CAN Controller Area Network
CFRP Composite Fiber Reinforce Polymer
CMRR Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMUT Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer
CNN Convolutanional Neural Network
CNT Carbon Nanotubes
COPV Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel
COTS Component Of The Shelf
CWT Continuous Wavelet Transform
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DToA Differential Time of Arrival
EMI Electro-Mechanical Impedance
FBG Fiber Bragg Grating
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FUT Flexible Ultrasonic Transducers
GFRP Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer
IDT Interdigital Transducer
INA Instrumentation Amplifier
IoT Internet of Things
ISHM Integrated Structural Health Monitoring
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
MEMS Micro Electrical Mechanical System
MFC Macro Fiber Composite
ML Machine Learning
NDI Non Destructive Inspection
NDT Non Destructive Testing
NF Noise Figure
PLC Power Line Communication
PMUT Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
PTP Precise Time Protocol
PVDF Polyvinylidene fluoride
PVDF–TrFE Polyvinyledenedifluoride–trifluoroethylene copolymer
PZT Lead zirconate titanate
PWAS Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors
ROI Region Of Interest
RPL Routing protocols for low-power networks
RTD Resistive Temperature Device
SH Shear Horizontal
SHM Structural Health Monitoring
SiC Silicon Carbide
SL SMART Layer®
SS Smart-Skin
SLDV Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SOC System on Chip
STFT Short Time Fourier Transform
TOF Time Of Flight
UGM Ultrasonic Guided Mode
UGW Ultrasonic Guided Wave
VGA Variable Gain Amplifier
WSN Wireless Sensor Network