Course title
環境機械システム特論Ⅳ   [Advanced Enviromental Mechanical Systems IV]
Course category interdisciplinary exchange courses  Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year   Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 112124
Instructor(s)
石田 寛   [ISHIDA Hiroshi]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
Recently, almost all mechanical products and systems come to have embedded electronics to attain at least some level of autonomy. Sensors are the indispensable components in such automatization of mechanical systems. Students will learn various sensors in this course. The topics covered in this course are optical sensors and mobile robot olfaction. Basic of quantum electronics that are necessary to understand working principles of optical sensors are also dealt in this course. Other types of sensors will be covered in Advanced Environmental Mechanical Systems III.

The topics covered in the course include:
- Energy band theory
- Optical sensors
- Mobile robot olfaction

This course is included in the Specialized Applied Courses of the curriculum of the Department of Bio-Functions and Systems Science.
Expected Learning
Students who successfully completed this course will be able to explain the working principles of popular sensors and to select appropriate sensors for their own experiments.
Corresponding criteria in the Diploma Policy: See the Curriculum maps.
Course schedule
Week 1: Energy band of intrinsic, p-type, and n-type semiconductors
Week 2: P-n junction diodes
Week 3: MOS transistors
Week 4: Photomultiplier tubes, photoconductors, photodiodes, phototransistors, and position sensitive devices
Week 5: CCDs, CMOS image sensors
Week 6: Infrared sensors, infrared imagers
Week 7: Mobile robot olfaction
Week 8: Recent topics in sensor technologies
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge on electronics. In addition to 16 hours of study in the classes, students are recommended to use at least the standard amount of time specified by the University for preparing for and reviewing the lecture contents using the lecture handouts and the references specified below.
Required Text(s) and Materials
No textbook is specified.
References
R. Pallas-Areny and J. G. Webster, Sensors and Signal Conditioning, 2nd Ed., Wiley, 2001.
J. G. Webster, Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors, CRC Press, 2000.
Assessment/Grading
Quiz posted on Moodle after each class (40%). Short paper (60%). Questions are designed to evaluate whether the students have acquired correct understandings of the materials dealt in the course and can clearly explain them by their own words.
Message from instructor(s)
The course will be given both in English and Japanese so that students can understand the contents in ether language.
Course keywords
Sensors, mechatronics, instrumentation
Office hours
From 13:00 to 14:00 on Tuesdays.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
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4/9/2021 12:05:43 PM