Sensors and Applications

Author: Wang Yudong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book aims at the application of sensors and systematically introduces their principles, characteristics, and applications from an applied perspective. It dedicates significant space to modern novel sensors and their application methods and examples. The content is rich, innovative, and covers a broad scope, making it a highly practical and teaching-oriented textbook that adapts to economic development, technological progress, and production practices. The book is divided into 9 chapters and an introduction. It systematically introduces the fundamental knowledge of sensors, with a focus on potentiometric, strain, capacitive, inductive, eddy current, piezoelectric, ultrasonic, Hall-effect, photoelectric (introducing ultraviolet, pyroelectric, CCD, PSD, and color sensors), fiber-optic, thermistor, gas-sensitive, humidity-sensitive, ion-sensitive, frequency, and digital (digital encoders, inductive transducers, magnetic scales, and optical scales) sensors, along with their principles, characteristics, and applications. It comprehensively covers anti-interference techniques, sensor signal preprocessing methods, data acquisition, and the concept of intelligent sensors. It appropriately introduces the basic composition, types, and applications of detection instruments. The book provides numerous application examples of sensors in electromechanical equipment, including applications in machine tools, automated production lines, automobiles, and household appliances. Avoiding overly theoretical analysis and complex, non-computational, or non-essential formulas and derivations, the book offers extensive application methods and practical resources. The language is concise, concepts are clear, the structure is rigorous, and the focus is well-defined. The book includes appropriate photographs of actual sensors to enhance visual and real-world understanding. Each chapter is accompanied by relevant exercises for teaching purposes. This book can serve as a textbook for adult education, vocational colleges, and professional training, as well as a reference for engineering technicians in automation, electrification, instrumentation, and electrical engineering-related fields.