Dynamics of measurement
systems
OR
The beauty of analogies
What is measured around you at this instant?
Typical measurement system
Same input, different responses
The Great Dictator (1940)
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Linear systems
Simple pendulum Spring Crystal oscillators
Uniform circular motion
Bourdon Guage
Generalized linear system
Zeroth Order system
1
− static sensitivity
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First Order system
Solution to linear ODE
Step input:
Initial condition
Time constant:
First Order system – Step response
Designating the steady-state value as x∞ and non-dimensionalising:
At t = τ, the value of x(t) will have responded to 63.2 percent of the step input
Rise time - Time required to achieve a response of 90 percent of the step input; t = 2.303τ
Analogies
Thermal Electrical
Lumped parameter system
First Order system – Harmonic response
Initial condition:
Phase-shift angle:
Time delay:
Amplitude reduction:
Second Order system
Second Order system - Frequency
response
Resonance
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Second Order system - Step input
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Capillary rise problem
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LCR circuit analogy
Laplace transform
Laplace transform
Differential equations
Integral equations
Unit step function
Solving initial value problems
Applying Laplace transform:
Transfer function:
Kreyszig's Advanced Engineering Mathematics , 10th Edition. Page: 222
First term:
Second term:
Fourier series
Periodic function of period p
Kreyszig's Advanced Engineering Mathematics
, 10th Edition. Page: 477
Fourier transform
Total energy in the system
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Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) – Reduction in the complexity
Let’s play some music!
The fundamental and the first 5 overtones in the harmonic series
Das Boot (1981)
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
A periodic signal must be sampled at more than twice the highest frequency component of the signal