Embedding Sensors and Motors Specialization

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Embedding Sensors and Motors Specialization

Experience Sensors and Motors in an IoT World. Master sensor and motor theory, and program these devices in a microprocessor system.

Instructors: James Zweighaft

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4 months

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4 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.6

(1,153 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 months

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Study a lab experiment or production process and understand how to specify the proper sensor solution for taking real-time process data
Implement the sensor into an embedded system in both hardware and software
Modify existing hardware schematic to add sensors and all support circuitry needed to implement the signal chain in existing microprocessor system
Create hardware and firmware to process the sensor signal and feed data to a microprocessor for further evaluation

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Specialization - 4 course series

The courses in this specialization can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5340-5343, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Enroll here.

Embedding Sensors and Motors will introduce you to the design of sensors and motors, and to methods that integrate them into embedded systems used in consumer and industrial products. You will gain hands-on experience with the technologies by building systems that take sensor or motor inputs, and then filter and evaluate the resulting data. You will learn about hardware components and firmware algorithms needed to configure and run sensors and motors in embedded solutions.

Applied Learning Project

You will create hardware and firmware solutions for sensors and motors that take real-time data and process it within an embedded environment. You will measure and record metrology data with oscilloscope traces and use the tools within the embedded system to amplify, filter and optimize the signals.

Sensors and Sensor Circuit Design

Course 131 hours4.6 (1,148 ratings)

What you'll learn

Use the core features of the Cypress PSOC development kit.
Choose the right temperature sensor, rotary sensor and amplifier for an application.
Interface sensors, LCD, and ADC to the PSOC development kit.

Motors and Motor Control Circuits

Course 236 hours4.7 (1,377 ratings)

What you'll learn

Understand how to specify the proper AC or DC motor for a machine design
Integrate the motor to a machine, based on analysis of motor equations for voltage, current, torque and speed
Implement the motor and accompanying rotary sensor into a motor control circuit in both hardware and software
Create hardware and firmware to process motor feedback data to a microprocessor for further evaluation

Pressure, Force, Motion, and Humidity Sensors

Course 323 hours4.7 (236 ratings)

What you'll learn

Choose the right pressure, force, strain, position, motion, acceleration, occupancy, and humidity sensor for an application.
Design these sensors into an embedded circuit.

Skills you'll gain

Category: PSoc Programming

Category: Analog hardware

Category: Sensor architecture

Category: Circuit Design

Category: Pressure and force sensors

Sensor Manufacturing and Process Control

Course 455 hours4.6 (266 ratings)

What you'll learn

Understand how sensor manufacturers characterize and calibrate their sensors.
Tune a PID control loop and access the PID control function of the Cypress PSoC development kit for a motor control application
Understand manufacturing methods used to build electro-mechanical and micro-machined sensors.

Skills you'll gain

Category: MEMS hardware

Category: MEMS sensors

Category: Process Control

Category: PID control

Category: Sensor manufacturing

Instructors

James Zweighaft

University of Colorado Boulder

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