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1.3 General Input Output Configuration

This document discusses general input and output configuration for measurement systems. It describes how desired signals pass through a gain block to produce the output, while interfering and modifying inputs also pass through separate gain blocks and influence the output. Temperature variations are provided as examples of interfering and modifying inputs when measuring force with strain gages or capacitive gages. The document also provides an overview of the general functions and data flow in a measurement and control system.

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1.3 General Input Output Configuration

This document discusses general input and output configuration for measurement systems. It describes how desired signals pass through a gain block to produce the output, while interfering and modifying inputs also pass through separate gain blocks and influence the output. Temperature variations are provided as examples of interfering and modifying inputs when measuring force with strain gages or capacitive gages. The document also provides an overview of the general functions and data flow in a measurement and control system.

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GENERAL INPUT OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

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GENERAL INPUT OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

Interfering and Modifying Inputs


•The sensor is chosen to gather information about the measured quantity and
to convert it to an electric signal in a measurement system
•A priori it would be unreasonable to expect the sensor to be sensitive to only
the quantity of interest and also to expect the output signal to be entirely due to
the input signal.
•No measurement is ever obtained under ideal circumstances; therefore we
must address real situations.

•Figure 1.3 shows a general block diagram for classifying desired signal gains
and interfering input gain for instruments.

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• The desired signal x S passes through the gain block GS o the output y.
Interfering inputs xI represent quantities to which the instrument is unintentionally
sensitive.
• These pass through the gain block GI to the output y. Modifying inputs xM are the
quantities that through GM;
• S cause a change in GS for the desired signal and through GM;

• I cause a change in GI for interfering inputs.


• The gains G can be linear, nonlinear, varying, or random

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• To measure a force, it is common to use strain gages .
• Strain gages operate on the basis of variation in the electric resistance of a
conductor or semiconductor when stressed.
• Because temperature change also yields a resistance variation, we can regard any
temperature variation as an interference or external disturbance xI with gain GI.

• At the same time, to measure resistance changes as a result of the stress, an


electronic amplifier is required.
• Since any temperature change xM through GMS affects the amplifier gain GS and
therefore the output, it turns out that a temperature variation also acts as a
modifying input xM.
• If the same force is measured with a capacitive gage, a temperature variation does
not interfere but can still modify the amplifier gain

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• Figure 1.1 shows the functions and data flow of a measurement and control
system.

• In general, in addition to the acquisition of information carried out by a sensor, a


measurement requires the processing of that information and the presentation of
the result in order to make it perceptible to human senses.
• Any of these functions can be local or remote, but remote functions require
information transmission.
• Modern measurement systems are not physically arranged according to the data
flow in Figure 1.1 but are instead arranged according to their connection to the
digital bus communicating different subsystem

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