SYLLABUS FOR SEMESTER - VI ( INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS )

09ME604             INSTRUMENTATION AND SENSORS        

         

OBJECTIVE:                                                                                             

·      This course provides concepts, characteristics, control and applications of several            measurement systems that are required in the Mechatronics system design.

1. GENERAL CONCEPTS OF MEASUREMENT                                                    

Generalized Measurement System – Performance Characteristics – Static and Dynamic Characteristics – Errors in Measurements – Generalized Performance of Zero Order, First Order and Second Order Systems – Classifications of Transducers.

2. SENSORS                                                                                                      

Introduction -Sensor  Characteristics - Fundamentals of Time and Frequency- Linear and Rotational Sensors-Acceleration Sensors-Force Measurement-Torque and Power Measurement-Flow Measurement-Temperature Measurements-Distance Measuring and Proximity Sensors-Light sensor

3. SIGNAL CONDITIONING                                                                                 

Instrumentation amplifier characteristics, wheats stone bridge- integration, differentiation and  sampling, A/D and  D/A conversion, choppers, voltage to time A/D conversion, voltage to freq. Conversion concept and  methods.

4. DATA ACQUISITION                                                                                      

Real-time interfacing – Introduction - Elements of data acquisition and control - Overview of I/O process,

Data Acquisition conversion-General configuration-single channel and  multichannel data acquisition – Data Logging – Data conversion – Introduction To Digital Transmission system

5. VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION                                                                       

Block diagram and architecture of the virtual instrumentation - VIs and sub VIs, loops and charts, arrays, clusters and graphs, case and sequence structures, formula nodes, local and global variables, string and file I/O.

                                                                                                                       

TEXT BOOKS

1. John G. Webster, “Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook”, CRC Press. 1999. 
2. Brian Morriss, “Automated Manufacturing Systems - Actuators, Controls, Sensors and Robotics”, McGraw Hill International Edition, 1995.

3. Holeman . J, “Experimental Methods for Engineers”, Mc Graw Hill, 6^th Edition, 2000.
4. Deoblin E.O. “Measurement Systems - Application and Design”, McGraw  Hill, 4^th Edition, 2005.

rEFERENCES

1. Buchanan, W, “Industrial Instrumentation and Control”, Butterworth-Heinemann Publishers, 1999.
2. Patranabis, D, “Sensors and Transducers”, Wheeler Publishing Co, Ltd., New Delhi, 1997.