Dan Gelbart

Created: 2025-03-08 Sat

Teacher - Engineer - Entrepreneur - Inventor

Courses

MECH 520 Sensors and Actuators UBC 2014 and 2016

Lecture Title Date Resources
Lecture 01: Intro and History 2016-01-05 * Video and Notes
* Stabilized Feedback Amplifiers, Harold Black, 1934
Lecture 02: Servo Systems Limits, Sensors Intro and LVDT 2016-01-07 * Video and notes
Lecture 03: Differential Sensors, Normalization, and Capacitive Sensors 2014-01-14 * Video and Notes
Lecture 04: Capacitive Sensos, Null Sensors and Optical Sensors 2014-01-16 * Video and Notes
Lecture 05: Optical Sensors 2014-01-21 * Video and Notes
Lecture 06: Optical Sensors, Light Modulation, Noise Filtering, Optical Encoders 2014-01-23 * Video and Notes
Lecture 07: Optical Encoders, Cameras and Interferometers 2014-01-28 * Video and Notes
Lecture 08: Tellurometers and Inductosyn 2014-01-30 * Video and Notes
Lecture 09: Summary of Sensors, Limits of Accuracy and Unusal Sensors 2014-02-04 * Video and Notes
Lecture 10: Interfacing, Filter Selection and Types of Wires 2014-02-06 * Video and Notes
Lecture 11: Transmission Lines, Shielding and Grounding 2014-02-11 * Video and Notes
Lecture 12: Choice of Filter, Grounding and Sampling 2014-02-13 * Video and Notes
Lecture 13: Introduction to Actuators and Moving Coil Actuators 2014-02-25 * Video and Notes
Lecture 14: Moving Magnte Actuators, Moving Iron Actuators and Capacitive Actuators 2014-02-27 * Video and Notes
Lecture 15: Moving Iron Actuators, Snap and AC Operation of Moving Iron Actuators 2014-03-04 * Video and Notes
Lecture 16: Piezoelectric Actuators, Magnetostrictive Actuators and Stepping Piezo Actuators 2014-03-06 * Video and Notes
Lecture 17: Series and Parallel wound DC Motors and PM vs non-PM Motors 2014-03-11 * Video and Notes
Lecture 18: DC Motors, Brushless DC Motors and Rotating Field Polyphase Systems 2014-03-13 * Video and Notes
Lecture 19: Synchronous Motors and Stepper Motors 2014-03-18 * Video and Notes
Lecture 20: Power Angle, Microstepping, Motor Drives and Induction Motors 2014-03-20 * Video and Notes
Lecture 21: Induction Motor Characteristics, Motor Selection, Cogging and Detent Torque 2014-03-25 * Video and Notes
Lecture 22: Induction Motor, Unusual Electromagnets, Braking of Motors and Tradeoff in Motor Design 2014-03-27 * Video and Notes
Lecture 23: MHD, System Design and Regenerative Braking 2014-04-01 * Video and Notes
Lecture 24: System Design 2014-04-03 * Video and Notes
Lecture 25: System Design 2014-04-08 * Video and Notes