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Tranducers: ECE 427 - Industrial Electronics

This document provides an outline for a course on transducers, actuators, and sensors. It introduces transducers as devices that transform non-electrical physical quantities like temperature, sound, or light into electrical signals like voltage or current. Actuators are defined as transducers that use energy to provide motion, while sensors are transducers that receive and respond to signals produced by various forms of energy. The course will cover these transducer types as well as their practical applications.

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Tranducers: ECE 427 - Industrial Electronics

This document provides an outline for a course on transducers, actuators, and sensors. It introduces transducers as devices that transform non-electrical physical quantities like temperature, sound, or light into electrical signals like voltage or current. Actuators are defined as transducers that use energy to provide motion, while sensors are transducers that receive and respond to signals produced by various forms of energy. The course will cover these transducer types as well as their practical applications.

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Tranducers

ECE 427 – Industrial


Electronics
• Introduction to Transducers
• Different Types of
Transducers
• Practical Application of
transducers

Course Outline
Introduction to
Transducers,
Actuators and
What is a transducers?
• A transducer is a device which transforms a
non-electrical physical quantity (i.e.
temperature, sound or light) into an electrical
signal (i.e. voltage, current, capacity…)
• (another definition) A transducer is any
device which converts one form of energy
into another.
What is an Actuator?
• An actuator is a device that actuates or
moves something.
• An actuator uses energy to provide motion.
• Therefore, an actuator is a specific type of a
transducer
What is a Sensor
• A sensor is a device that receives and
responds to a signal.
• This signal must be produced by some type of
energy, such as heat, light, motion, or
chemical reaction.
• Therefore, a sensor is also a specific type of
transducers

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