Section 1 Introduction

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Unit staff
Lecturer (Clayton): Dr. Jonathan Li Room 226, Building 72 Phone: +61 3 99051941 E-mail: jonathan.li@monash.edu Lecturer (Sunway): Dr. Kuppan Chetty Ramanathan Room 5-4-36 Phone: +60 3 55146202 E-mail: kuppan.chetty.ramanathan@eng.monash.edu.my

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Administration
Lectures: 3 hours of lectures per week (some lectures used as revision/test time) Laboratories (20% overall mark): 2 hours of laboratories per week 5 exercises worth 4% each DO NOT PLAGIARISE - checked with past submissions Mid Semester Test (10% overall mark): During lecture time - Week 7, Tuesday 17 April. Final Exam (70% overall mark) 3 hours long
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Administration
Lab induction Information on OH&S is in your lab manual, and the demonstrators will give you a refresher in the first lab.

To be able to submit assignments in Moodle, you need to correctly complete the Lab Induction Quiz score full marks.

If you do not complete this step, you will score zero for your lab reports.

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Steps for asking questions

Follow these steps if you have a question about TRC3500 Step 1: Try to find a solution yourself Look at lecture notes, textbook, unit guide etc Have a few tries at the problem Step 2a: Ask lab demonstrator Step 2b: Discussion boards on MUSO Dont be shy! Step 3: Ask lecturer Can e-mail questions or consultation requests Include TRC3500: in subject field
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Material Covered in this Unit

What is a sensor? What are the physical principles behind their operation? Give examples of commonly used sensors and some applications. Give examples of more specialised sensors used in robotic systems. Analogue signal conditioning for sensors - filtering and amplification. Converting analogue signals to digital form for processing by a computer. Elementary concepts from digital signal processing. Some specialised aspects of sensing - binary image processing, bar codes and RFID devices.

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Specific Aims (1/2)

To ensure that you become familiar with the operation of sensors To indicate how sensor technology will develop in the future To enable you to select appropriate sensors for use in industrial automation and similar applications To show some of the sensors used in robotic applications

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Specific Aims (2/2)

To indicate how you would:
connect a sensor to an information processing system filter and amplify its signal convert to digital form apply elementary digital signal processing operations to help remove noise

To outline image processing techniques used in industrial computer vision To indicate important big growth areas in sensing technology
machine readable item identification by means of bar codes RFID technology

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Sensors - An Essential Mechatronic Component

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Sensors in Many Consumer Products

What sensors do you think that this Wii remote contains?

Buttons (switches) Bluetooth communication Infrared receivers 3D capacitive accelerometer

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Microwave Ovens Contain Sensors

Most modern white goods are microprocessor controlled and contain sensors to improve their performance

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Robots

Even simple swarm robots that emulate insects contain many sensors
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Capsule Endoscopy
There are some sensory devices that you may not be familiar with. This is a miniature camera that is swallowed and takes one picture per second as it passes through your gastrointestinal tract. It is used to diagnose intestinal problems.
http://www.givenimaging.com
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Capsule Endoscopy Pictures

NSAID injury

Nematode parasites http://www.givenimaging.com

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Industrial Processes

Most industrial processes and production lines are computer controlled and rely very heavily on sensors to monitor the quantities that need to be controlled.

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The Unit Contents - By Section

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Introduction - this introduction Sensor Technology - principles of sensor operation Sensor Examples Robotic Sensors - some examples Noise and Loading - problems acquiring sensor data Binary Image Processing - sufficient for many industrial applications Bar Codes - what they are and how to interpret them Dedicated Short-Range Communication Systems Operational Amplifiers and Filters - some solutions Analogue <> Digital Conversion Digital Signal Processing

The following textbook covers a large portion of the contents of this unit and although some of the material is not treated in the same depth it is a very useful reference: W. Bolton, Mechatronics - 4rd Edition, Pearson, 2008.
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Problems for Section 1

1.1 List the four essential components of a mechatronic system. 1.2 Thinking of a modern motorcar as a mechatronic system explain which parts correspond to the four essential components of a mechatronic system. 1.3 Describe the kinds of mechatronic systems that would be involved in the high-volume manufacture of a chocolate bar. 1.4 Could a laptop computer be classified as a mechatronic device? Justify your answer.
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