Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

Introduction to the Course
Overvew of the course. Topics, textbook and exams. Thesis works and stage opportunities. Research and Industry together in electronic and optical instrumentation design and engineering. Intellectual property and start-ups.

Static and dynamic characteristics of instruments.
Static calibration. Measurement display. Signal analysis in time - and frequency domains. Linear first- and second order systems.

Fourier series and transforms: theory and experimental activity.

Measurement signal conditioning: amplification and operational amplifiers
Signal conditioning. The operational amplifier: real and Idealized AO's. Operational amplifier configurations. Charge amplifiers (basics). The oscilloscope. Noise and disturbances in measurements.

Signal filtering and A/D and D/A conversion
Characteristics of passive and active filters. Signal sampling, with particular reference to tha risk of undersampling and aliasing. Analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog conversion.

Measurement of time and frequency
Digital electronics concepts. Logic ports. Flip-flops. Counters. Measurement of time periods, delay between events, frequency.
Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers.

Basic optics, optical and optoelectronic components
Basic of geometrical and wave optics. Incoherent and coherent optical sources, detectors, optical fibres.

Optical instrumentation for industrial measurements.
Types of optical measurement instruments. Interferometers, speed measurement systems, vibrometers, stress measurement systems, temperature measurement systems, radiation measurement systems.

2D and 3D vision systems for industrial applications
Matrix optical sensors: CCD and CMOS. Vision systems and their applications. 2D and 3D vision: dimensional measurements, profile measurement, colour measuremens.