SENSORS AND ADVANCED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° YearCredit Value: 12
Scientific field: ING-INF/07 - Electric and electronic measurements
Taught classes: 70 hours
Exercise: 30 hours
Term / Semester: One-year
ENGLISH VERSION
Learning Objectives
The course would porovide fundamentals on the design and the synthesis of sensors and measurement systems. Mian topics presented during the course are related to sensor chracterization, sensing methodologies and sensors examples, conditioning electronics, smart multi-sensor systems and signal processing.
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