450-8703/01 – Sensor Systems for Automotive (SSA)
Gurantor department | Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering | Credits | 6 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Bohumil Horák, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Bohumil Horák, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | USP | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Students will get acquainted with a group of sensors and sensor systems implemented in vehicles and their testing systems. The study will focus on issues of actual sensor systems in the automotive field.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
The course focuses on the issue of testing and measurement of noneleectric quantities, sensors and detectors and their application in the automotive industry. Theoretical lectures describing the various sensor systems are complemented by practical measurements in the laboratory. Student prepare a semestral project.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
During the semester student prepare protocols from measurements of 5 laboratory tasks and develop a semester project. Semester project goal is to demonstrate the ability to apply and solve problems of practical tasks. The course is completed the final test.
E-learning
Other requirements
There are not definet other requirements for student
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. Sensors, sensor systems definitions. Classification, comparison features, applications, application in the automotive industry. Technological procedures for production of microelectronic sensors.
2. Microelectronic sensors of mechanical signals. Torque sensors, pressure and vibration. Microelectronic pressure sensors and accelerometers. Speed measurement.
3. Application of speed sensors, pressure, vibration, hammering moment in vehicles.
4. Microelectronic sensors of thermal quantities. Temperature sensors. Semiconductor temperature sensors. The use of microelectronic sensors for measuring quantities of heat flow.
5. Thermal Imaging Systems. CCD infrared systems with pyroelectric detectors, infrared CCD quantum systems.
6. Application of temperature sensors in vehicles.
7. Microelectronic sensors magnetic variables. Integrated Hall sensors. Sensors and rotation speed. Navigation systems.
8. Applications of magnetic sensors in vehicles.
9. Microelectronic sensors radiation signals. Non-ionizing radiation detectors. Spectral characteristics of photoelectric sensors and its possible influence.
10. Photoconductive and photovoltaic effect. Photoelectric position sensor-PSD. Image sensors. Image sensors visible radiation. X-Y-addressed sensors. CCD image sensor with a line transmission. CCD image sensor with image transmission.
11. Application of radiation sensors in vehicles quantities.
12. Microelectronic sensors chemical variables. Sensors type ChemFET, IS FET. Chemresistors. Chemical sensors using surface acoustic wave (SAW. Humidity detectors. Integrated oxygen sensors.
13. Application of chemical sensors in vehicles quantities.
14. Processing of sensor signals. Multisensor array. SMART sensors.
Laboratories:
• Training - safety in laboratory, laboratory work organization during semsester,
laboratory tasks.
• Pressure measurement.
• Flow measurement.
• Temperature measurements.
• Measurement of position and speed.
• Measuring torque and power.
• Excursion - vibration measurement.
• Excursion – noise measurement.
• Excursion - EMC measurements.
• Excursion - Measurements of gas mixture composition and emissions.
• Consultation of measured laboratory tasks and semestral project
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction