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50520 Advanced Instrumentation Design
Danish title: Videregående måling og instrumentering
Language: English Credit points: 10
Type: Open University
Language: English

Previous course: 50220
No credit points with: 50220
Prerequisite: C4703/50200/72141/49215/(D4293/92794.D4451/92492)
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Scope and form: Lectures and laboratory work 1 afternoon pr. week
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13-scale)
Contact person: John Leif Jørgensen, Building 327, Tel. +45 4525 3448, email jlj@oersted.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Automation
Aim: To learn the students in an independent way to - based on a specific measurement principle or a design sketch - to solve a complex instrumentation problem. Typical design parameters are strict demands on quality, precision, life span and environmental dependence. Based on this analysis and design work, critical parts of the instrument systems are established in the laboratory, and an evaluation test is carried out
Contents: The course is started by an introduction to the environmental issues which influence the instrument design such as termal control, shock, vibration, radiation, EMC and chemical influence. The next section contains more specific design demands such as protocol considerations, power supplies, power consumption and distribution, redundance fault tolerance and autonomy. Also demands on and choice of test and validation equipment and processes are considered. Finally a treatment is given of strategies for optimization of the equipment given the often contradictory demands posed on the systems. The theories will be applied on advanced instrumentation systems during the entire course.