Mechatronics Systems -- Engineering and Design

3. Sensors and Transducers

1 An Introduction to Sensors and Transducers

• Sensor Classification
• Parameter Measurement in Sensors and Transducers
• Quality Parameters
• Errors and Uncertainties in Mechatronic Modeling Parameters

2 Sensitivity Analysis—Influence of Component Variation

3 Sensors for Motion and Position Measurement

• Resistance Transducers
• Inductive Transducers
• LVDT
• RVDT
• Capacitance Transducers

4 Digital Sensors

• 1 Digital Encoders
• 2 Encoder Principle
• 3 Incremental Encoders
• 4 Absolute Encoders
• 5 Linear Encoder
• 6 Moire Fringe Transducer
• 7 Applications

5 Force, Torque, and Tactile Sensors

• 1 Sensitivity of Resistive Transducers
• 2 Strain Gauges
• 3 Offset Voltage
• 4 Tactile Sensors

6 Vibration and Acceleration Sensors

• 1 Piezoelectric Transducers
• 2 Active Vibration Control
• 3 Magnetostrictive Transducer

7 Sensors for Flow Measurement

• 1 Solid Flow
• 2 Liquid Flow
• 3 Sensors Based on Differential Pressure
• 4 Ultrasonic Flow Transducers for Flow Measurement
• 5 Drag Force Flow Meter
• 6 Turbine Flow Meter
• 7 Rotor Torque Mass Flow Meter
• 8 Fluid Measurement using Laser Doppler Effect
• 9 Hot Wire anemometers
• 10 Electromagnetic Flow Meters

8 Temperature Sensing Devices

• 1 Thermistors
• 2 Thermocouple
• 3 Radiative Temperature Sensing
• 4 Temperature Sensing using Fiber Optics
• 5 Temperature Sensing using Interferometrics

9 Sensor Applications

• 1 Eddy Current Transducers
• 2 Hall Effect
• 3 Pneumatic Transducers
• 4 Ultrasonic Sensors
• 5 Range Sensors
• 6 Laser Interferometric Transducer
• 7 Fiber Optic Devices in Mechatronics

10 Summary

References

Problems

7. Signal Conditioning and Real-Time Interfacing

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