Computer Measurement and Diagnostics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	410-6009/03
Abbreviation	PMDI
Course title	Computer Measurement and Diagnostics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Vladimír Král, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Basic principles of technical diagnostics. Types of measured signals, their adjustment and modification.
- Electrical transducers, industry standards. A/D and D/A converters.
- Data acquisition and transmission. Computer control of measuring instruments. Serial and parallel interfaces and their use in measurement.
- Sampling, effect of sampling rate on measurement accuracy and correctness evaluation of measured data.
- Signal analysis, time series analysis, digital filtering. Statistical tests.
- Design of measurement methodology. Selection of HW and SW resources.
- Protection against interference. Methods of separating the measuring equipment from the measured object.
- Use of technical and software tools for the design of the measurement application.
- Archiving and processing of measured data. Evaluation of the measurement and its graphical presentation. Mutual sharing of data.
- Systems for generating custom measurement, control and regulation programs. Use of virtual instruments.
- Modelling and simulation of measurements. Archiving and processing of measured data.

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en.

Literature

Haasz, Vladimír a Sedláček, Miloš. Electrical measurements. Praha: Česká technika - nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006.
Measurement, instrumentation, and sensors handbook : electromagnetic, optical, radiation, chemical, and biomedical measurement, edited by John G. Webster, Halit Eren. - 2nd ed. - Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4398-4891-3
Rosa, F. Harmonics, power systems, and smart grids. CRC Press, 2015, 242 stran.
WANG, Lingfeng, ed. Modeling and control of sustainable power systems: towards smarter and greener electric grids. Berlin: Springer, 2012, 366 stran. ISBN 978-3-642-22903-9

Advised literature

Operation and control of electric energy processing systems. [Hoboken]: Wiley, 2010.
Kolcun M., Heger V., Mülbacher J. Electric Power System Operation Control, Mercury - Smékal Publishing House, Praha 2003
Weerakorn Ongsakul, Dieu Ngoc Vo.: Artificial intelligence in power system optimization, CRC Press, c2013, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/b14906, eBook , ISBN 978-1-57808-805-8

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