Measurement in Engineering

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Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Synopsis:

Static and dynamic properties of measurement instruments. Measurement chain, measurement errors, they sources and correction. Summary of principles, sensors and transducers (temperature, position, force, pressure, speed, acceleration, torque, flow, humidity, liquid level). Calibration and verification of measurement instruments.

Requirements:

see moodle

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Measurement system, Static and dynamic characteristics of transducers. Accuracy and sensitivity of transducers and instruments. Uncertainty of measurements

2.Time constant of transducer and its determination, Electronic processing circuits, discretization of analog signals

3.Temperature transducers I - resistive, thermocouples

4.Temperature transducers II - semiconductor sensors, infrared

5.Force and torque transducers -resistive, inductive, capacitive and piezoresistive sensors

6.Pressure transducers I - resistive, capacitive, humidity

7.Pressure transducers II- inductive, piezoresistive

8.Position and distance transducers I

9.Position and distance transducers II

10.RPM, speed and acceleration - mechanical, impulse, inductive, resistive, capacitive and semiconductive sensors

11.Flow

12.Liquid level transducers

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Uncertainties of measurement

2.Optics I

3.Optics II

4.DC and AC bridges

5.Contact temperature sensors

6.Non-contact temperature sensors

7.Force

8.Pressure and humidity

9.Position 1

10.Position 2

11.Liquid level

12.Flow

13.Speed

Study Objective:

To master basic principles of sensors and theirs correct use. To master correct evaluation of experimental data.

Study materials:

RIPKA, Pavel, ed. a Alois TIPEK, ed. Master book on sensors: modular courses on sensors: Leonardo da Vinci project CZ/PP-134026. Part B. Praha: BEN, 2003. 1 sv. (různé stránkování). ISBN 80-7300-129-2.

Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition Spatial, Mechanical, Thermal, and Radiation Measurement

John G . Webster and Halit Eren

CRC Press 2014

Print ISBN: 978-1-4398-4888-3

eBook ISBN: 978-1-4398-4889-0

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Further information:

http://control.fs.cvut.cz/en/tem

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