Syllabus

Course Code: EL 15    Course Name: Electronic Instrumentation & Control System

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Basic concepts of measurement: Introduction, system configuration basic characteristics of measuring devices, Transducer Classification :Introduction, Electrical transducer, classification, basic requirements, Performance characteristics of an instrumentation system: generalized system, zero order, first order, second order system, Measurement of displacement: principle of transduction, Variable resistance device, LVDT, Variable capacitance transducer, Hall effect devices, Measurement of pressure: Thin film pressure transducer, piezoelectric pressure transducer vibrating element pressure transducer
2 Measurement of position, velocity, force, torque (basics only) Measurement of flow: Head type flow meters based on differential pressure measurements, Anemometers Temperature measurements: resistance type temp. sensors, thermistors, thermocouples, solid state sensors, optical pyrometers Measurement of humidity, thickness, pH (basics only) Instrumentation amplifier, Q meter, Digital storage oscilloscope, Lock-in Amplifier,
3 Bioelectrical signals and their measurement, Electrodes for ECG
Control System:
Introduction: Basic components of a control system, Example of control system applications, Open loop and closed loop control system, Feedback and its effects, Types of feedback control systems, Transfer functions, block diagram, and Signal Flow graphs. Time response of feedback control systems: Steady state error analysis, Introduction and design of P, I PI, PD and PID Controllers .
4 Stability of linear control systems: introduction, Methods of determining stability, Routh –Hurwitz stability, Nyquist Stability Criterion, Root loci technique for analysis of LTI control system, Bode plots and Nyquist plots
Introduction to State variable analysis: Concepts of state, state variable and state models for electrical systems, Solution of state equations.
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