Sensor, Actuator and Signal Conditioning
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Sensor, Actuator and Signal Conditioning Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Sensor, Actuator and Signal Conditioning (subject code 1716206) as prescribed for IOT · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 53 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 (1716206)Unit 1 UNIT- I
- Sensor fundamentals and characteristics Sensor Classification
- Performance and Types
- Error Analysis characteristics. 04 10
Unit 2 UNIT-II
- Optical Sources and Detectors Electronic and Optical properties of semiconductors as sensors, LED, Semiconductor lasers
- Fiber optic sensors
- Thermal detectors
- photoconductive detectors
- Photo diodes
- Avalanche photodiodes
Unit 3 UNIT-III
- Intensity Polarization and Interferometric Sensors: Intensity sensor
- Micro bending concept
- Mach Zehnder
- Fabry-Perot and Sagnac
- Phase sensor: Phase detection
- Polarization maintaining fibers
Unit 4 UNIT-IV
- Torque and Pressure sensors: Strain gages
- strain gage beam force sensor
- piezoelectric force sensor
- load cell
- torque sensor
- Piezo-resistive and capacitive pressure sensor
- Wef-AY-2021-22 optoelectronic pressure sensors
- vacuum sensors
- Design of signal conditioning circuits for strain gauges
- capacitance and optoelectronics sensors
Unit 5 UNIT-V
- Displacement and Level Potentiometric and capacitive sensors
- Inductive and magnetic sensor
- eddy current
- transverse inductive
- Hall effect
- magneto resistive
- magnetostrictive sensors
- Fiber optic liquid level sensing
- Fabry Perot sensor
- ultrasonic sensor
- capacitive liquid level sensor
- Signal condition circuits for reactive and self generating sensors
Unit 6 UNIT-VI
- Velocity and Acceleration sensors Electromagnetic velocity sensor
- Doppler with sound
- Accelerometer characteristics
- piezoelectric accelerometer
- thermal accelerometer
- monolithic and optical gyroscopes
Unit 7 UNIT-VII
- Temperature and Acoustic sensors Flow sensors: pressure gradient technique
- thermal transport
- electromagnetic and Laser anemometer. microflow sensor
- Coriolis mass flow and drag flow sensor
- Temperature sensors- thermosensitive
- semiconductor and optical
- Piezoelectric temperature sensor
- Acoustic sensors- microphones-resistive
- fiber optic
- solid-state - electret microphone
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