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Measurements and Instrumentation

Review of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering units. Transducers, Overview of
metrology and measurement. Errors & error analysis, uncertainty analysis,
statistical methods and least square method. Instrumentation: characteristics
static!s and dynamics", o#erational modes, measurement accuracy, and
measurement standards. Mechanical varia$les Mechatronics Engineering
%e#artment &''()&''* +, measurements: solid, fluid, and thermal. Electrical
instrumentation for measuring: current, voltage, #ower, resistance, ca#acitive, and
inductive quantities.
2. -ontrol .ystems
Review of transfer functions. Res#onse of high order systems and %ominate #oles.
Overview of feed$ac/ control systems, #erformance indices time, com#le0, and
frequency", testing signals, and o$1ectives of control systems. .ignal flow
re#resentation and Mason2s gain formula. 3ineari4ation of nonlinear systems.
.ta$ility 5nalysis using: Routh)6urwit4 criterion, root locus, and 7yquist criterion.
Introduction to multivaria$le systems. -ontroller design overview and
configuration, feed$ac/ and feed forward, 8I% controller design and tuning
techniques, 8hase lead controller, #hase lag controller, #ole 4ero cancellation.
5##lications: first, second and higher systems" motion control, level control,
environment control, sta$ility 9etc. %esign #ro1ect.
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