Course detail

Sensors for Control and Measuring Circuits

FSI-GMB-K Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester

Fundamentals of electrical quantities measurement, A/D and D/A convertors and signal conditioning. Communication busses and protocols for sensors and sensor systems. Fundamentals of sensors with electric outputs. Selection and utilization of sensors for production machines and systems. Introduction into design and implementation of DAQ systems, data processing and archiving.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Entry knowledge

Theoretical knowledge of physics, fundamentals of electronics and algorithmization.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course credit award requirements: active participation in laboratories, elaboration and commit of laboratory reports. Examinations: written and oral, classified by ECTS.
Attendance at lectures is recommended, attendance at seminars is monitored. Maximally two absence are compensated by individual missing laboratory reports working out.

Aims

Theoretical fundamentals and practical know how of the applied sensors, data acquisition (DAQ) and industrial communication protocols. The course focused on the field of modern production machines and systems, mobile robotics and standalone testing. Acquired knowledge enables students to integrate into teams dealing with implementation of advanced systems within interdisciplinary fields in engineering practice.
Measurement fundamentals, signal processing methods (DAQ) and sensors overview based on various physical principles and sensors applications in practice. Introduction to modern sensor trends, the industrial communication protocols in sensorics and DAQ.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-VSR-K: Production Machines, Systems and Robots, Master's, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

9 hours, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction, basic terminology and general characteristic of sensors
2. Inputs and output of the digital systems
3-4. DAQ introduction
5. DAQ of slow process – temperature and humidity
6. DAQ of fast process – position and velocity
7. DAQ of dynamics process – velocity, acceleration, force and torque
8. Process sensors
9-10. Communications protocols
11. DAQ hardware
11-13. DAQ multi instruments synchronization

Guided consultation

34 hours, optionally

Syllabus

1. Introduction, basic terminology and general characteristic of sensors
2. Inputs and output of the digital systems
3-4. DAQ introduction
5. DAQ of slow process – temperature and humidity
6. DAQ of fast process – position and velocity
7. DAQ of dynamics process – velocity, acceleration, force and torque
8. Process sensors
9-10. Communications protocols
11. DAQ hardware
11-13. DAQ multi instruments synchronization

Laboratory exercise

9 hours, compulsory

Syllabus

1-3. Introduction to LabVIEW and DAQ
4-6. Static characteristic of Aripot
7-8. Position and velocity measurement
9-12. Sensors net
13. Laboratory works finishing , credit