| Sensors for Intelligent Manufacturing and Condition Monitoring

| Course Contents

Introduction - Role of sensors in manufacturing automation - operation principles of different sensors - electrical, optical, acoustic, pneumatic, magnetic, electro-optical and vision sensors. Condition monitoring of manufacturing systems - principles - sensors for monitoring force, vibration and noise, selection of sensors and monitoring techniques. Acoustic emission - principles and applications - concepts of pattern recognition. Sensors for CNC machine tools - linear and angular position and velocity sensors. Automatic identification techniques for shop floor control - optical character and machine vision sensors - smart / intelligent sensors - integrated sensors, Robot sensors, Micro sensors, Nano sensors. Manufacturing of semi conductor sensors and fibre optic sensors - principles, applications.