Course description
Fundamentals of sensors and their significance in power engineering; Sensors and transducers of measurement quantities (basic concepts and definitions, measuring chain and definition of its components, ideal / real measuring components, static and dynamic properties, influential quantities, reliability and safety); Insight into physical backgrounds of thermal-electric conversion, optical-electric, mechanical-electrical, magnetic-electrical, chemical-electrical conversion and other geometric changes of material, which are used in modern measuring components; Measurements of mechanical and process quantities for applications in drive systems and mechanical structures (measurement of quantities such as linear displacement, rotation, speed and angular velocity, thickness of the layer, force, pressure and torque and power, mass, volume and mass flow of fluids and loose materials); Introduction to the transmission of the measurement signal through insulation barriers; Introduction to the adaptive circuits and the structure of modern measurement systems.
Course is carried out on study programme
2nd Cycle Postgraduate Study Programme in Electrical Engineering
Objectives and competences
The objective of the course is to familiarize the student with a wide range of sensors that exploit different material-geometric changes of the basic-active sensor material. The subject includes measurement challenges from different technical areas with an emphasis on mechatronics applications. It provides the student with knowledge about the limitations of the sensors in question and about the guidelines for the optimal selection of sensors and the design in the assessment of the properties of non-electrical and electrical quantities.
Learning and teaching methods
The lectures give the theoretical basics of the discussed chapters together with the presentation of the process of solving simpler practical challenges. Students are provided with detailed study material. Practical work is carried out within laboratory exercises, where students gradually become acquainted with sensors and their real case applications.
Laboratory models allow the simultaneous work of two or three students who report the final results at the end of the semester by comparing the results from the literature.
Intended learning outcomes
After successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- describe the operation of individual sensors and measurement transducers,
- compare different sensors and evaluate their advantages and drawbacks,
- select and design the measuring line with the selected sensor,
- analyse the impact of interference quantities,
- justify the choice of an individual sensor.
Reference nosilca
- PETKOVŠEK, Marko, LEBAN, Aleš, NEMEC, Mitja, VONČINA, Danijel, ZAJEC, Peter. Series active power filter for high-voltage synchronous generators, Informacije MIDEM, ISSN 0352-9045, Dec. 2013, vol. 43, no. 4, str. 228-234.
- FLISAR, Uroš, VONČINA, Danijel, ZAJEC, Peter. Voltage sag independent operation of induction motor based on Z-source inverter, Compel, ISSN 0332-1649, 2012, vol. 31, no. 6, str. 1931-1944.
- RUPAR, Uroš, LAHAJNAR, Franci, ZAJEC, Peter. Iterative-learning-based torque-ripple compensation in a transverse flux motor, IET control theory & applications, ISSN 1751-8644, 2012, vol. 6, no. 3, str. 341-348.
- PETKOVŠEK, Marko, KOSMATIN, Peter, ZEVNIK, Ciril, VONČINA, Danijel, ZAJEC, Peter. Measurement system for testing of bipolar plates for PEM electrolyzers, Informacije MIDEM, ISSN 0352-9045, mar. 2012, letn. 42, št. 1, str. 60-67.
- OSTROŽNIK, Simon, BAJEC, Primož, ZAJEC, Peter. A study of a hybrid filter, IEEE transactions on industrial electronics, ISSN 0278-0046, Mar. 2010, vol. 57, no. 3, str. 935-942.
Study materials
- D. Fefer, A. Jeglič: Senzorji in pretvorniki, Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, 2006.
- P.Zajec, zapiski predavanj
- J. Turner, Automotive Sensors. Momentum Press, 2009.
- E. Ramsden, Hall-Effect Sensors: Theory and Application. Newnes, 2011.
- P. P. L. Regtien, Sensors for Mechatronics. Elsevier, 2012.
- R.Pallás-Areny, J.G.Webster: Sensors and signal conditioning, New York, Wiley, 2001.
- H. Bernstein: Sensoren und Messelektronik, München, Pflaum, 1998.