Lecture 1: Introduction

ME-360: Instrumentation and Control Components

August 20, 2017

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 Introduction

Section 1

Introduction

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 Introduction

ME-360

Instructor: Dr. Vishesh Vikas /v-ih-sh-ai-sh/ /v-ih-k-ah-s/

email: vishesh.vikas@ua.edu
office: SERC 2013B
phone: 348-1607

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 Introduction

ME-360

Instructor: Dr. Vishesh Vikas /v-ih-sh-ai-sh/ /v-ih-k-ah-s/

email: vishesh.vikas@ua.edu
office: SERC 2013B
phone: 348-1607

Prerequisites:
1 Circuits: ECE-320 or ECE-225
2 Strength of Materials: AEM-250

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 Introduction

ME-360

Instructor: Dr. Vishesh Vikas /v-ih-sh-ai-sh/ /v-ih-k-ah-s/

email: vishesh.vikas@ua.edu
office: SERC 2013B
phone: 348-1607

Prerequisites:
1 Circuits: ECE-320 or ECE-225
2 Strength of Materials: AEM-250

Office Hours: 10-11am Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or by

appointment

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 Goals and Expectations

Section 2

Goals and Expectations

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 Goals and Expectations

Goals and Expectations

1 Labs: Understand the connect between theory and experiments
2 Report Writing: How to write lab and scientific reports? Learn to
articulate ideas.
3 Interdisciplinary concepts: Electrical engineering concepts
muddled with programming and mathematics to perform tasks like
data acquisition and control.
4 Mathematics: How is mathematics useful for estimating and
predicting things?
5 Aptitude: Develop the research aptitude and creativity.

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 Goals and Expectations

Goals and Expectations

1 Labs: Understand the connect between theory and experiments
2 Report Writing: How to write lab and scientific reports? Learn to
articulate ideas.
3 Interdisciplinary concepts: Electrical engineering concepts
muddled with programming and mathematics to perform tasks like
data acquisition and control.
4 Mathematics: How is mathematics useful for estimating and
predicting things?
5 Aptitude: Develop the research aptitude and creativity.

Explore and Challenge

If you’re passionate about something then it becomes hard to distinguish
work from play, why not immerse yourself in it?
Become passionate about what you study!
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 Goals and Expectations

1. Measure physical quantities

Mechanical quantities of interest: Position, velocity, acceleration, force,

strain, temperature
How are they measured? Indirectly through voltage, current, resistance
What is this relationship between measured and desired quantities?
Mathematical modeling. Linearity desired

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 Goals and Expectations

1. Measure physical quantities

Mechanical quantities of interest: Position, velocity, acceleration, force,

strain, temperature
How are they measured? Indirectly through voltage, current, resistance
What is this relationship between measured and desired quantities?
Mathematical modeling. Linearity desired

Example: Linear and non-linear

1
KE = mv 2
2
What is the relationship between KE and v?

P = mv
What is the relationship between P and v? What about KE and m?

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2. Communicate observations

1 What is the objective/motivation for this work?

People problem (big picture) and technical problem (literature review)
distill into a problem statement or question that the write-up will
answer.
2 What are the proposed solutions? Hypothesis or idea that will
answer the problem question.
3 What is the evaluation of the proposed solution? What
argument, implementation, and/or experiment makes the case for the
value of the ideas?
4 What is your analysis of the identified problem, idea and
evaluation? What are the results? Did it work?
5 What is your take-away message? Conclude the main implications
of the write-up. Identify the essence of the work.

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 Goals and Expectations

2. Communicate observations

The ABC’s are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

Communication ∝ quality of work.

Two (2) formal lab reports. You will hand two printed copies
Copy 1. I will grade one copy for technical content.
Copy 2. Graded by an English Department staff member for
writing skills.
Labs are 40% of the grade.
Formal lab: (100 technical + 100 English)×2 labs = 400 points.
Informal lab: 50 technical×8 labs = 400 points.
English grading is 10 % of your final grade.
Write your formal lab early, make an appointment with the Writing
Center, edit it, edit it, edit it...
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 Goals and Expectations

3. Control

1 Programming: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC),

Mictrocontrollers (Arduino)

2 Mechanical-electrical interfacing: Run actuators by giving

command

Implementation: Translate theory into practical

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 Course Outline

Section 3

Course Outline

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 Course Outline

Outline of Course Topics

1 Basic mathematical concepts, electrical engineering basics.

2 Analog and digital signals
3 Electronics lab basics
4 Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amps)
5 Microcontrollers (Arduino)
6 Data Acquisition Systems (DAQ)
7 Sensors : Strain gauges, force, torque, etc
8 Actuators: Motors
9 Dynamic behavior (mathematical modeling of systems)
10 Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

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 Pre-requisite knowledge

Section 4

Pre-requisite knowledge

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 Pre-requisite knowledge

Units in Engineering

Length (L): SI - m, Imperial - in ⇒ 1in = 2.54cm

Mass (M): SI -kg, Imperial - lbm ⇒ 1lbm = 0.4536kg
Force: SI - N, Imperial - lbf ⇒ 1lbf = 4.448N
Power: SI - W, Imperial - hp ⇒ 1hp = 550ft · lbf /s = 746W

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 Pre-requisite knowledge

Units in Engineering

Length (L): SI - m, Imperial - in ⇒ 1in = 2.54cm

Mass (M): SI -kg, Imperial - lbm ⇒ 1lbm = 0.4536kg
Force: SI - N, Imperial - lbf ⇒ 1lbf = 4.448N
Power: SI - W, Imperial - hp ⇒ 1hp = 550ft · lbf /s = 746W

Units in Engineering
1 1 6= 1 Units are important
2 1m 6= 1sec Consistent Dimensions
3 1m 6= 1in Incorrect Units

5km = 3.1miles

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Unit conversion

Example 1: rmp to rad/sec

Speed of rotation of shaft ω = 2500rpm
     
rev
 1
min 2πrad rad
ω = 2500 · · = 262

min
  60sec 1rev
 sec
| {z } |  {z }
1min=60sec 1rev =2πrad

Example 2: rad/sec to Hz
Speed of rotation of shaft ω = 262rad/sec
    !
rad
 1
cycle
 1Hz
ω = 262 ·  · 1  = 41.7Hz
cycle
sec
 2π
rad sec


| {z } | {z }
1cycle=2πrad
1Hz=1 cycle
sec

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Circuits
1 Voltage(V), Current(I), Power (P), DC, AC
Z T
PDC = V · I , PAC = V (t) · I (t)dt
0

2 Passive electric elements - Resistance (R), Capacitance (C) and

Inductance(L). RLC in parallel and series
N N
X 1 X 1
Rseries = Ri , =
Rparallel Ri
i i

N N
1 X 1 X
= , Cparallel = Ci
Cseries Ci
i i
N N
X 1 X 1
Lseries = Li , =
Lparallel Li
i i

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Significant Digits
Digits that carry meaning contributing to its measurement resolution
ME360 will follow rules for significant digits
Be careful with computer generated outputs
Microsoft Excel tables are prone to having excessive significant digits!

Some rules for significant digits

1 In multiplication, division, and other operations, carry the result to
the same number of significant digits that are in the quantity used in
the equation with the least number of significant digits.
2 In a lengthy computation, carry extra significant digits throughout the
calculation, then apply the significant digit rules at the end.
3 When no other information is available, assume
3 significant digits if first digit is 2 through 9
4 significant digits if first digit is 1

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 ME360 Website

Section 5

ME360 Website

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 ME360 Website

ME360 Website

I will create announcements and send emails through the 360

Blackboard site.
You should have received an announcement from me via Blackboard
already. If not, somethings wrong and you need to check on it.
Not receiving email/announcements due to the above failure is not an
acceptable excuse for not completing assignments.
Direct communication to me should be using the vvikas@ua.edu
address.

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