This course on integrating sensors with your Raspberry Pi is course 3 of a Coursera Specialization and can be taken separately or as part of the specialization. Although some material and explanations from the prior two courses are used, this course largely assumes no prior experience with sensors or data processing other than ideas about your own projects and an interest in building projects with sensors.
This course focuses on core concepts and techniques in designing and integrating any sensor, rather than overly specific examples to copy. This method allows you to use these concepts in your projects to build highly customized sensors for your applications.
Some of the ideas covered include calibrating sensors and the trade-offs between different mathematical methods of storing and applying calibration curves to your sensors. We also discuss accuracy, precision, and how to understand uncertainty in your measurements. We study methods of interfacing analog sensors with your Raspberry Pi (or other platform) with amplifiers and the theory and technique involved in reducing noise with spectral filters. Lastly, we borrow from the fields of data science, statistics, and digital signal processing, to post-process our data in Python.
This first module gets us all on the same page, no matter how much experience you have with sensors or measurement technology. We'll start by describing a straightforward sensor flow model to help us understand the myriad of sensors available in the world, and which you may later build. Then we'll move into the concepts of accuracy, precision, and uncertainty, which are necessary for understanding the inherent error in any measurement system. This module lays the groundwork for the circuits and examples in later modules.
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8个视频1个作业
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8个视频•总计113分钟
Introduction to Module 1•2分钟
Sensor Design Concepts 1 of 3•21分钟
Sensor Design Concepts 2 of 2•12分钟
Sensor Design Concepts 3 of 2•13分钟
Sensor Accuracy•10分钟
Sensor Precision•14分钟
Sensor Uncertainty•21分钟
Sensors and Real-Time Processing•20分钟
1个作业•总计45分钟
Module 1 Quiz•45分钟
Calibration Methods
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In this module, we'll look at examples of three common methods to store calibration data and apply that data to your sensor measurements. These examples range from simple to sophisticated, but none are complicated. We'll use Python and advanced open-source libraries to do the heavy math, just like you can implement in your Raspberry Pi projects.
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10个视频•总计89分钟
Introduction to Module 2•4分钟
Calibration Terminology•10分钟
Sensor Transfer Functions•18分钟
Analyzing Look-Up Tables in Python•13分钟
Piece-Wise Interpolated Calibration Data 1 of 2•10分钟
Piece-Wise Interpolated Calibration Data 2 of 2•5分钟
Calibration with Polynomial Fit 1 of 3•7分钟
Calibration with Polynomial Fit 2 of 3•12分钟
Calibration with Polynomial Fit 3 of 3•8分钟
Summary of Module 2•1分钟
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Module 2 Quiz•30分钟
Interface Circuits
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Once you have a sensor, and have a Raspberry Pi, there is often a need for circuitry in the middle to interface the two. In this module, we'll show how simple amplifier and filter circuits can be used to adapt voltage levels and reduce noise from your sensor data.
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9个视频•总计118分钟
Introduction to Module 3•1分钟
Integrated Sensors•17分钟
Sensor Signal Flow•6分钟
Sensor Interface Amplifiers 1 of 3•20分钟
Sensor Interface Amplifiers 2 of 3•14分钟
Sensor Interface Amplifiers 3 of 3•8分钟
Reducing Noise with Filters 1 of 2•24分钟
Reducing Noise with Filters 2 of 2•23分钟
Summary of Module 3•4分钟
1个作业•总计30分钟
Module 3 Quiz•30分钟
Introduction to Signal Processing
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The great thing about using a Raspberry Pi for your sensor projects is that you have access to great open-source software libraries and lots of processing power to manipulate your sensor data. This module looks at a few techniques for using statistical and digital signal processing methods to clean up your sensor data.
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