450-0501/05 – Electrical Measurements (EMBc)
| Gurantor department | Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Ludvík Koval, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Ludvík Koval, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2009/2010 |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Students will get knowledge how to use electrical measuring instruments.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
Students are supposed to be acquainted with all types of measuring instruments such as analog, digital as well as virtual ones, which they will even be able to try to get together. They will also met various methods of electrical quantity measuring.
Compulsory literature:
Velička, R.: Electrical Measurements (Basic Course),Ostrava 2007
Klátil, P.: Electrical Measurements (Hands-on Training), Ostrava 2007
Recommended literature:
Lenk, John D.: Electonic Testing Handbook, USA 1994, by McGraw-Hill Inc.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Verification of study:
Regular handover of protocols and writing of tests.
Conditions for credit:
Full attendance in laboratory training including the practical test measurement. It is necessary to get at least 25 assessing points
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
Accuracy and error of measurement. Errors of analog and digital instruments, errors of direct as well as indirect measurements, random errors, total measurement error.
Inharmonic waveforms of electrical quantities. Representation of periodical waveforms using Fourier transformation; form, crest and distortion factors.
Measuring converters.
Analog and digital measuring instruments.
Analog and digital osciloscopes.
Chart recording instruments.
Frequency analyzers.
Virtual measuring instruments, GPIB, RS 232, VXI buses, programming developments.
Methods for measuring active electrical quantities (voltage, current, power, frequency, period, time intervals).
Methods for measuring passive electrical quantities (resistor, inductance, capacitance, dissipation factor, quality factor, impedance).
Magnetic measurements. Measuring of ferromagnetic characteristics, display of hysteresis loops.
Disturbing effects and their limitation.
Laboratories:
Measuring of voltage and current.
Measuring of passive components.
Impact of frequency and waveform shape on measuring instrument's indication.
Analog osciloscopes.
Measuring of single-phase power.
Measuring of powers across unbalanced three-phase load.
Measuring of frequency, period and phase shift.
Magnetic measurements.
Virtual measuring instruments.
Digital osciloscope and its control over GPIB bus.
Practical test measurement.
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction