Syllabus - INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL (AU402)

Introduction to instrument systems

classifications, functional elements of a measurement system, standards and calibration, static performance characteristics, measurement errors and uncertainties, analysis, sequential and random test, specifications of instrument static characteristics, data acquisition, reduction, data outliner detection

Dynamic characteristics of the instruments

formulation of system equations, dynamic response, compensation, periodic input, harmonic signal non-harmonic signal, Fourier transform, response to the transient input, response to random signal input, first and second order system compensation

Temperature measurements

thermometry based on thermal expansion, liquid in glass, bimetallic, electric resistance-thermometry, thermocouples, thermistors, detectors

Pressure and velocity measurements

barometer, manometer, dead weight tester, pressure gauges and transducers, dynamic measurements

Flow measurements

pressure differential meters, orifice meter, venturi meter, rota-meter

Strain gauges, strain and stress measurements

electrical circuits, compensations, motion force and torque measurements, displacement measurements, potentiometers, linear and rotary variable differential technique, stroboscope, load cell, measurement of torque on rotating shaft, power estimation from rotating shaft

Control systems

open loop and close loop control, mathematical modeling of dynamic systems – mechanical systems, electrical systems, fluid systems, thermal systems, transfer function, impulse response function, block diagrams of close loop systems, system modeling using software