ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS MEASUREMENTS

The goal of this course consists in introducing the students to the discipline of metrology and to electrical measurements methodologies, measurements techniques and electronic instruments. These concepts will be discussed and applications to the area of electrical engineering will be presented.

This course aims to transfer basics and some advanced concepts regarding measures and measurements performed with electronic instruments.

An introduction to metrology will be given in order to assess competences regarding the estimation of uncertainties in measurements.

Measurements methodologies will be therefore discussed together with their implementation by using electronic instrumentation.

Both analog and digital electronic instruments will be considered, the working principles will be studied together with the transduction models and the metrological characteristics; some advance issues related to signal processing and noise reduction on measurement results will be also discussed.

A significant part of the course will be devoted to experimental activities in laboratory where the students will be asked to use real instruments, perform measurements, develop Virtual Instruments by using LabView.

Specialized seminars will be held on advanced subjects of basic and industrial research in the area of electronic instrumentations and measurements.

• Slides provided in class.
• Norme UNI 4546
• International vocabulary of metrology — (VIM)
• Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM)
• J.J. Carr, Elements of electronic instrumentation and measurements, Prentice Hall, 1996.