“…Wear debris detection is key to the oil particulate analysis. A variety of methods for on-line wear debris detection, such as capacitive detection [6,7], acoustic detection [8,9], color extraction method [10,11] and inductive sensor, have been developed and they were reviewed in a recent article [12]. Among these methods, the inductive sensor shows great advantages such as simple structure, low cost, ability to differentiate ferrous and nonferrous debris and so on [13,14,15,16,17,18].…”