Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Measurement

This examination of the general principles of instrumentation processes for scientists and industrial engineers explains the theoretical analysis of physical phenomena used by standard sensors and transducers to transform a physical value into an electrical signal. The preprocessing of these signals through electronic circuits—including amplification, signal filtering, and analog-to-digital conversion—are then detailed, as are instrumentation and measurement chains, sensor modelling, digital-signal processing and diagnostic methods, smart sensors, and microsystem design. In addition, numerous industrial examples are provided.