Sensors and Transducers

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Department of Measurement

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The aim of the subject is to provide students with a review of typical sensors and measuring methods for measurement non-electric quantities occurring in industry or research laboratories. The main stress is put on physical principles, signal conditioning circuits and specific properties of each sensor. Subject is oriented for future active users of automatic control and measuring systems and represents also a source of inspiration for solution of specific tasks of automatic control and measurement.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. The role of sensors in automatic control and measurement. Metrological properties of sensors

2. Resistive, variable reluctance and capacitive sensors of position and displacement

3. Optoelectronic sensors for geometrical quantities

4. Absolute and relative sensors of vibrations

5. Inductive and piezoelectric transducers for measurement of vibrations

6. Sensors for pressure, force and torque measurement

7. Sensors for flow measurement (turbine, pressure drop, magnetic, thermal and ultrasonic)

8. New type of flow sensors (vortex, Coriolis, correlation)

9. Temperature sensors (resistive, thermocouples)

10. Contactless measurement of temperature, radiation methods, pyrometry

11. Sensors using optical fibre sensors (OFS). OFS with amplitude and phase modulation

12. Sensors for ionising radiation

13. Sensors for chemical analysis. Electrochemical, chromatographic, chemfets, biosensors

14. Signal conditioning circuits. Smart sensors

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Measurement of time varying deformation by resistance strain gages

2. Sensors for torque and force measurements

3. Sensors for measurement of displacement (variable reluctance, inductosyn, ultrasound)

4. Resistance and capacitance pressure sensors

5. Correlation method of velocity measurement

6. Accelerometers

7. Sensors for flow measurement

8. Semiconductor sensors of temperature

9. Resistive sensors of temperature (RTD)

10. Thermocouples and measuring circuits

11. Radiation methods of temperature measurement (pyrometry)

12. Sensors for chemical analysis

13. Humidity sensors

14. Sensors for measurement of ionising radiation

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