The course provides engineering students with basic understanding of two of the main components of any modern electrical or electromechanical system; sensors as inputs and actuators as outputs. The covered topics include frequency responses and feedback control, Performance specification and analysis, Sensors: analog and digital motion sensors, optical sensors, temperature sensors, magnetic and electromagnetic sensors, force sensors. Actuators: stepper motors, DC and AC motors, magnet and electromagnetic actuators, Introduction to interfacing methods: bridge circuits, A/D and D/A converters, signal processing, filters. This course is useful for those students interested in control engineering, robotics and systems engineering.
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C103
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