SENSORS AND ADVANCED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Bruno ANDÒ
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: ING-INF/07 - Electric and electronic measurements
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 70 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Detailed Course Content

·Basics on sensors

·Resistive sensors: potentiometers, Strain Gauges and RTD sensors.

·Conditioning electronics for resistive sensors

·Reactive sensors: capacitive, Inductive, LVDT

·Conditioning electronics for reactive sensors

·Active sensors: Thermocouples, Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric sensors

·Charge amplifier and measurement amplifier

·Absolute sensors (displacement, velocity, acceleration)

·Other sensors (Force, pressure, flux, etc.)

·Digital sensors and ultrasound sensor

·Smart sensor systems and sensor networks

·Basics on technologies for sensors

·Basics on signal processing


Textbook Information

E. Doebelin: Mesurement systems, Mc Graw Hill;

Pallas-Areny J.G. Webster: Sensors and Signal Conditioning

Tutorial on Smart sensor systems and sensor networks