A typical mechatronic system consists of a multitude of components,and the sensors belong to an important and crucial class of such components.Optimal matching of the system components is implicit in the current defin...A typical mechatronic system consists of a multitude of components,and the sensors belong to an important and crucial class of such components.Optimal matching of the system components is implicit in the current definition of a mechatronic system.The focus of the present paper is the optimal matching of sensors with other hardware in the system.Sensor matching may be based on several concepts such as the operating frequency range(operating bandwidth),speed of response(and the corresponding rate of data sampling in digital conversion),the device sensitivity(or gain or data amplification),and the effect of component acc uracy on the overall accuracy of the system.The present paper explores all these concepts and presents suit able approaches for sensor matching through those criteria.The relevant procedures are illustrated using case studies.展开更多
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文摘A typical mechatronic system consists of a multitude of components,and the sensors belong to an important and crucial class of such components.Optimal matching of the system components is implicit in the current definition of a mechatronic system.The focus of the present paper is the optimal matching of sensors with other hardware in the system.Sensor matching may be based on several concepts such as the operating frequency range(operating bandwidth),speed of response(and the corresponding rate of data sampling in digital conversion),the device sensitivity(or gain or data amplification),and the effect of component acc uracy on the overall accuracy of the system.The present paper explores all these concepts and presents suit able approaches for sensor matching through those criteria.The relevant procedures are illustrated using case studies.