Key words
automation
Objectives
The course aims at giving a profound knowledge of methods for measuring proces parameters and the ways these results can be deployed.
Topics
Theory:
Part 1: General concepts
1. Applications of measuring systems
2. General aspects and functional description of measuring systems
3. General performance characteristics of measuring systems
Part 2: Measurements
4. Position and movement detection
5. Force, torque and power measurements
6. Pressure and sound measurements
7. Flow measurements
8. Temperature and heat-flux measurements
9. Miscellaneous measurements
Part 3: Manipulation, transmission and recording of data
10. Signal conditioning devices
11. Data transmission and instrument connectivity
12. Indicating and recording devices
13. Data-acquisition systems for personal computers
14. Miscellaneous topics
Labo:
* Experimental use of existing acquisition systems
* Project(s) (instrumentation design, development data-acquisition system, design of a measurement and control system, ...)
Prerequisites
Elektronics, Informatics, System and control techniques, Electrical and electromechanical design
Final Objectives
(AC1) To be able to think, judge and operate in a permanent critical, creative and scientific way
(AIC1) To be able to apply scientific technical concepts to complex engineering problems.
(SC4) To be able to automate and optimize production processes, by applying sensors and actuators in an industrial context.
Materials used
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Course text: Maesurement Systems: Application and design, Ernest O. Doebelin, ISBN: 0071006974
Study costs
Course text: +/- 65 euro
Study guidance
Individual guidance is provided by contacting the responsible lecturer / lab responsible.
Teaching Methods
Ex cathedra colleges, group discussions (theory) and project(s), experiments for the practical sessions.
Assessment
Theory: oral evaluation after written preparation
Practical sessions: continuous evaluation.
A weighted average is used to compute the final score for a training item.
However, if a student gains a score of 7 or less on 20 on one of the different
courses (parts of training items) , he proves that his skill for certain
subcompetencies is insufficient. Consequently, one can turn from the arithmetical
calculation of the final assignment of quotas of a training item and the new
marks can be awarded on consensus.
Of course, the examiners can judge that the arithmetic regulations mentioned in
the study index card can also be used for 7 or less.
For each deviation a detailed motivation ought to be drawn up. In that case one
should point out that the skill for this subcompetency is proven to be
insufficient, if the student didn't pass the partim that is considered to be
important for certain subcompetencies.
Lecturer(s)
Paul Devos
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