Sensors and Transducers
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Sensors and Transducers Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Sensors and Transducers (subject code 3161008) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 6 divides the course into 8 units, covering 60 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3161008)Unit 1 Introduction to Electronics Measurement and Instrumentation
- Transducers and sensors- Static and Dynamic Characteristics Static characteristics: Accuracy
- drift etc
- Dynamic characteristics: Speed of response
- settling time
- lag etc
- Errors: Types of errors
- statistical analysis
- probability of errors
- limiting errors
- performance measures of sensors Classification of sensors
- Sensor calibration techniques
Unit 2 Temperature Sensors
- Resistance Vs Temperature characteristics for different materials
- Thermocouples - thermoelectric effects for thermocouples
- thermocouple tables, RTD, Other Thermal Sensors
- Radiation temperature sensors
- Pyro-electric type Temperature Sensor
Unit 3 Motion, Proximity And Ranging Sensors
- Motion Sensors – Potentiometers
- Encoders – Optical
- LVDT – RVDT
- Proximity Sensors - Magnetic
- Range Sensors – RF beacons
- Ultrasonic Ranging
- Reflective beacons
- Laser Range Sensor (LIDAR)
Unit 4 Pressure, Force, Displacement And Weight Measurement, Magnetic Sensor
- Capacitive and inductive transducers
- Piezo-electric sensors
- Tactile sensor
- Strain Gage
- Load Cell
- Magnetic Sensors –types
- requirement and advantages: Magneto resistive – Hall Effect – Current sensor
Unit 5 Flow Measurement, Power Measurement, Optical Sensors
- Flow Measurement - Magnetic and ultrasonic flow meter
- Power Measurement - Electrodynamometer type of wattmeter and power factor meter
- Single-phase induction and Electronic energy meters
- Optical Sensors - Photo conductive cell
- photo voltaic
- Photo resistive
- IR sensor, LDR
Unit 6 Subject Code
- AY 2018-19 Fiber optic sensors 6 Special Sensors: GPS, Bluetooth
- Smart Sensors - Film sensor
- MEMS & Nano Sensors
- LASER sensors
- Touch screen sensor
- Heading Sensors – Compass
- Applications of sensors in drone
Unit 7 Analog Signal Conditioning
- Signal conditioning
- Loading effects
- Bridges for measurement techniques
- Maxwell bridge and Hey bridge
- Applications of Attenuators
- Amplifiers and Passive filters in signal conditioning
- Op-amp based signal conditioning circuits
- Inverting and Non-Inverting Amplifiers
- Differential amplifiers and Instrumentation amplifiers
Unit 8 Digital Signal Conditioning
- Digital measuring techniques
- Sample and Hold Circuits
- D/A Conversion and A/D Conversion
- Weighted Resistor DAC, R- 2R ladder DAC, Dual Slope
- Parallel-comparator Successive Approximation ADC techniques
- Single channel and multi-channel Data Acquisition System (DAS)
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