Nathan Ida

Sensors, Actuators, and Their Interfaces: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thoroughly updated, revised and expanded, this second edition of a popular textbook now includes much more material on chemical sensors and chemical-biological sensors. It focuses on recent developments including Radar and Lidar sensors, lightning detector sensors, gunshot detector sensors, and more.

Produktdetails

• Control, Robotics and Sensors
• Verlag: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Seitenzahl: 928
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1497g
• ISBN-13: 9781785618352
• ISBN-10: 1785618350
• Artikelnr.: 56975516

Autorenporträt

Nathan Ida is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Akron, USA. He teaches electromagnetics, antenna theory, electromagnetic compatibility, sensing and actuation, and computational methods and algorithms. His research interests are various but include numerical modelling of electromagnetic fields. He serves as Editor in Chief for Sensing and Imaging and is a board member of the IET International Book Series on Sensors.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Performance characteristics of sensors and actuators
Chapter 3: Temperature sensors and thermal actuators
Chapter 4: Optical sensors and actuators
Chapter 5: Electric and magnetic sensors and actuators
Chapter 6: Mechanical sensors and actuators
Chapter 7: Acoustic sensors and actuators
Chapter 8: Chemical and biological sensors and actuators
Chapter 9: Radiation sensors and actuators
Chapter 10: MEMS and smart sensors and actuators
Chapter 11: Interfacing methods and circuits
Chapter 12: Interfacing to microprocessors
Appendix A: Least squares polynomials and data fitting
Appendix B: Thermoelectric reference tables
Appendix C: Computation on microprocessors
Answers to problems