Measurement Instrumentation

This course covers the principles, architectures and applications of measuring instrumentation used for electrical, electronic and electromagnetic quantities, with emphasis on understanding signal acquisition, processing, instrument subsystems, and practical use of modern instruments. Students become familiar with electronic building blocks of instrumentation, analog-to-digital conversion, voltage, resistance and power measurements, time- and frequency-domain instruments, as well as advanced instrumentation for electromagnetic compatibility and industrial testing. Particular emphasis is placed on linking theoretical operating principles with practical laboratory measurements and contemporary instrumentation solutions.

The course includes:

• basic architecture and functional blocks of measuring instruments,
• electronic building blocks: operational amplifiers, comparators, feedback, instrumentation amplifiers and filters,
• analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, ADC architectures and performance parameters,
• digital voltmeters and instrumentation for voltage, resistance, impedance and power measurements,
• oscilloscopes, counters and measurement of dynamic signals,
• spectrum/signal analyzers, EMI receivers and vector network analyzers,
• instrumentation for magnetic measurements, NMR and specialized sensors,
• EMC testing principles and related instrumentation,
• industrial applications of measuring instrumentation, signal integrity, grounding, shielding and noise mitigation.

The course introduce basic knowledge of measurement instrumentation and systems. Objectives of the course are:

a) to learn basic structure of measuring instruments and systems, their static and dynamic performances, and dependence on the influence quantities;

b) to introduce the basic principles of digitalization of the measurement signals in the time and frequency domain;

c) to get acquainted with software and hardware and the elements for automation of measurement systems;

d) to learn advanced communication protocols and interfaces;

e) to analyses the influences of electrical and electronic measuring instruments onto the circuit properties;

f) to learn basic characteristics of measurements for different electrical fields (telecommunications, energetics, electronics …), and for (magnetic) materials.

Lectures, laboratory tutorials, solving practical tasks (problems).