Seventh International Symposium On Measurement Technology And Intelligent Instruments PDF Download

The subject covered in this series is wide-ranging and detailed. "Measurement Technology and Intelligent Instruments" is in fact a combination of enabling technologies brought together to make possible more meaningful metrology of a wide range of disciplines. This involves bringing together subjects such as the design and use of sensors measuring displacement and its derivatives; flow, pressure, temperature. Of critical importance is calibration and traceability without which quality control cannot be guaranteed. One aspect of measurement which is attracting much interest is the optimisation of information obtained from sensors and the use of the more significant information to improve instrument usage. Automatic checks on the data can be made to improve fidelity and speed up operation. Much effort has been expended in understanding the nature of the measurand and utilising the latest mathematical techniques to isolate hitherto untypical parameters such as scratches. Many of these new parameters lie outside the capability of traditional instruments. It is hoped that exposure of these new techniques in the proceedings will open the door to their use in a much wider range of applications than occurs at present. Also some papers devoted to measurement problems in conventional applications such as the railways should reassure sceptics that advanced theory in mathematics and associated software algorithms is useful today as well as in the future. Another aim of the publication is to demonstrate that measurement problems in nanotechnology and macro metrology are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Engineering and physics as well as biology and chemistry can all benefit from the integration of ideas and methods as shown.