The Border Effect in High-Precision Measurement

This book introduces various kinds of high-precision measurements, including the measurements of time and space, digital activity, border sensors and other physical quantities. Further, it demonstrates how to eliminate the quantitative errors believed to be the main problem in measurements using the border effect. In metrology technology, detection resolution is crucial to improving measurement precision in devices and instruments, and since the resolution is limited, a fuzzy area is usually found during detection. As such the book presents numerous experimental findings showing that the measurement precision can be improved by two or three orders of magnitude compared to traditional methods by achieving stability of resolution and more accurately detecting the border of the fuzzy area. 

Wei Zhou graduated from the specialty of automatic control at Xi’an Jiao Tong University in 1970; earned his Doctor of Engineering Degree from Shizuoka University, Japan in 2000. From 1970 to 1988, he was engaged in scientific research and measurement at the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Metrology and Measurement, acting as engineer, senior engineer and chief engineer. From 1988 on, he has been engaged in teaching and research at Xidian University, acting as senior engineer, professor and advisor of PhD candidates. He has over 10 years’ joint research experiences with the institutions of higher learning, research institutes and enterprises in the United States, Japan, Canada and Europe. He is member of the FCS Technical Steering Committee of the IEEE, special reviewer of the Chinese Physics Letters, member of the Executive Council of the China Instrument and Control Society, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Scientific Instrument, member of the Academic Committee of the Key National Defense Science & Technology Laboratory of Measurement and Calibration Technology, and part-time professor at the Shenyang University of Technology. He has obtained 2 National Invention Awards and 1 Chinese Instrumentation Invention Award. Prof. Zhou's areas for training master students include measuring techniques and instruments; detection techniques and automatic devices.
Zhiqi Li received her doctorate degree from Xidian University, Xi'an, China in 2012. She is now Doctor of Engineering, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at Xidian University. She has been engaged in the research of time & frequency measurement and control technology, automatic detection technology of precision electronic measuring instruments. She has won second prize of the Science and Technology Progress of the Instrument and Meter Society, secondary second prizes of the Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education for Universities, and second prize of the Science and Technology Progress of Shaanxi Province.

Lina Bai received her doctorate degree from Xidian University, Xi'an, China in 2015, and now she is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Xidian University. Her main research interests are time-frequency measurement and control technology, satellite navigation as well as measuring and instruments. She presided over 21 vertical projects such as international cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology and other class items, won 10 awards for scientific research achievements, published 2 academic works and published 27 academic papers, including 9 in SCI and 17 in EI databases.
Xiaoning Fu received his Master and Doctor degrees in from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1994 and 2005, respectively. Since Aug. 2005, Dr. Fu has been with Xidian University as an Associate Professor. Heg has worked in the development of petroleum instruments, participated in major scientific and technological research projects of the Oil and Gas Group Corporation, and won the second prize for scientific and technological innovation of the Corporation; The research on the measurement method of overdamped geophones testing has been incorporated into the standards of China's oil and gas industry. After 2000, he joined Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology, and has been engaged in photoelectric positioning, ground penetrating missile/missile tracking, etc. for a long time. He has written four books, including Photoelectric Positioning and Photoelectric Countermeasures, Photoelectric Detection Technology and System, and participated in the preparation of Basic Course of Electronic Packaging Technology and Equipment Technology, C51 Foundation and Application Examples, etc. 
Bayi Qu is currently an associate professor at the School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an, China. He graduated fromXidian University, majoring in measurement and control technology and instruments. The current research directions are: time-frequency measurement and control technology, navigation equipment and related signal processing technology, multi-sensor fusion technology and information collection and processing technology in the field of intelligent transportation.
His main scientific research projects include research on miniature atomic clock circuit based on digital compensation, GPS locking secondary frequency standard, research on precise time interval measurement based on length vernier method, and research on time-frequency processing and measurement based on time-phase and time-space relationship, etc. In terms of academic and scientific research achievements, he has published more than 10 academic papers in recent years, of which 7 are retrieved by EI. The representative papers include a new type of precise time difference measurement technology, the development of ahigh-precision time-domain frequency stability measuring instrument, and the frequency conversion compensation technology. Improve the frequency and temperature characteristics of rubidium clocks, and develop high-precision time interval measuring instruments.
Miao Miao received her B.E. in Automation Engineering, M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Instrumentation Science and Engineering, from Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, in 2003, 2007 and 2012, respectively. Since Apr. 2007, Dr. Miao has been in School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University as a Lecturer. Dr. Miao focuses on the research of time and frequency technology. Her recent research interests include: time and frequency signal transmission and synchronization, Intelligent aging compensation for OCXOs of batch production.