Measurement Instrumentation

Higher education teachers: Agrež Dušan, Drnovšek Janko
Collaborators: Begeš Gaber, Beguš Samo, Geršak Gregor, Hudoklin Domen

Subject description

Prerequisits:

• Enrolment in the academic year

Content (Syllabus outline):

• Structure of measuring instruments and systems (structure and elements, static and dynamic characteristics, influence quantities, analog and digital conditioning and signal processing).
• Electronic measurement instruments (multi-meter, analog and digital electronic osciloscop, universal counter, instrument with computer) and suitable condioning circuts.
• Measurement communication interfaces, protocols and software;
• Virtual measuring instruments and systems (structure, hardware, and software);
• Measurement of electrical quantities and caracteristics of measurement transducers;
• Measurement bridges and reduction of the influence of disturbing and noise signals;
• Characteristic measurement instruments and devices for different electrical fields (telecommunications, energetics, electronics …), for materials (specific conductivity), and for magnetic measurements.

Objectives and competences:

• To learn basic structure of measuring instruments and systems, their static and dynamic performances, and dependence on the influence quantities;
• To introduce the basic principles of digitalization of the measurement signals in the time and frequency domain;
• To get acquainted with software and hardware and the elements for automation of measurement systems;
• To learn advanced communication protocols and interfaces;
• To analyse the influences of electrical and electronic measuring instruments onto the circuit properties;
• To learn basic characteristics of measurements for different electrical fields (telecommunications, energetics, electronics …), and for (magnetic) materials.

Intended learning outcomes:

• Understanding of basic structures of clasical, and electrical instruments, and measuring instruments supported by computer;
• Understanding how measuring instruments work and their limitations in the context of the environment influence.

Learning and teaching methods:

• lectures, laboratory tutorials.

Study materials

• Morris A.S., Measurement and Instrumentation Principles, Third Edition, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010.
• Bhuyan M., Intelligent Instrumentation: Principles and Applications, CRC Press, 2010.
• Bentley, J.P., Principles of Measurement Systems (4. edition), Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Agrež D. in ostali, Meritve in merilna instrumentacija - laboratorijski praktikum (ver. 4), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2014.
• Tumanski S., Principles of Electrical Measurement, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 2006.