Sensors Interfacing And Control

AY2014/2015 Semester 1

Introduction: Principles of Sensors and Transducers, Temperature and Displacement Transducers. The Basic Transistor Amplifier: Transistor operation as a linear device, Limitations. Operational Amplifiers: Op-Amp Basics, Signal Conditioning Circuits ? Non-Inverting, Inverting amplifiers, Buffer, Summation, Difference and Instrumentation amplifiers, Op-Amp Specifications, Signal conditioning circuit design. Passive and Active Filters: Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass and Band-reject filters, Integration and Differentiation functionalities of filters, Filter Design. Signal Conversion: Analog-to-Digital Converter and Digital-to-Analog Converter. Control Systems: Elements of a feedback control system, Sampled data control system, Proportional, Integral, Derivative Controllers, Stability, Computers in Process Control.