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Building Robots: Sensors and Data Acquisition
Overview
Learn to design and develop sensor systems and data acquisition applications for embedded robotic systems.
What you'll learn
- Explain the underlying principles of physical variables sensing
- Describe the electronic elements related to generic sensor modules
- Explain electronic sensing aspects (hardware and software) involved in a GEMS prototype
- Test and design sensing applications based on a GEMS prototype.From testing demos you’ll progress to design ad-hoc applications
- Make critical design choices for a practical sensing system in a robotic application
- Work with other disciplines to acquire data from sensors for various applications
- Deploy sensing electronics hardware and implement the firmware to acquire the data
Syllabus 13
- What does sensing mean?
- Sensing goals: monitoring and control
- The data involved
- Basic architecture
- Different types of sensors
- Calibration and errors
- Characteristics of an acquisition system
- Analysis of discretization signal effects (Sampling, Noise)
- Example of acquisition and processing process
- Charlieplexing in Ruby
- Ultrasound distance sensing in Ruby
- Direction of Arrival (DoA) detection
- Design ad-hoc applications based on given examples
Skills you'll practise
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
- A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
- From Delft University of Technology, a well-regarded name.
- Self-paced: start any time.
- A clear syllabus (13 parts) you can see before you start.
Disadvantages
- Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
- Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
- Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
- Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.
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Free to audit
- Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
- Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate $150). Audit access may end after the course closes.
Before you start
Fundamental analogue and digital electronics Preliminary microcontroller programming experience
Taught by
- Marta Marrón-RomeraAssociate Professor
- Felipe Espinosa-ZapataFull Professor
- Cristina Losada-GutiérrezAssociate Professor
- David Fuentes-JiménezAssistant Professor
- Daniel Pizarro-PérezFull Professor
Delft University of Technology is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (86/100).
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