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TTK4101

Instrumentation and Measurements

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Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.

Credits 7.5
Level Foundation courses, level I
Course start Spring 2026
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

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About the course

Course content

Analog signals and signal models. Passive and active circuits for signal conditioning. Current loops. Transmission lines and line termination. Modulation. Scaling and calibration. Basic measurement principles based on resistance, capacitance, light, magnetism etc.. Instrumentation for selected physical process variables. Camera as a sensor. Selected control elements.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The candidate

  • has thorough knowledge of common techniques, circuits and components for conditioning, conversion and transmission of analog measurement signals.
  • has thorough knowledge of elementary measurement principles and instrumentation for selected physical process variables.
  • has basic knowledge of selected industrial actuators.

Skills: The candidate

  • is able to choose appropriate instrumentation technology based on a description of process properties and performance requirements.
  • is able to construct and analyse circuits for conditioning, conversion and transmission of analog measurement signals.
  • is able to use various laboratory instruments.

General:

  • The candidate is able to communicate about industrial instrumentation with specialists as well as system users.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, mandatory activities (laboratory assignments and theory exersices) and practical project. Precise requirements for the obligatory activites will be published via the course learning platform.

Compulsory assignments

  • Mandatory exersices and laboratory assignments

Further on evaluation

The final course grade is based on two partial assessments, a portfolio and a final exam, that count 30% and 70%, respectively, towards the final grade. Both partial assessments must be passed for the student to pass the course.

The project assignment is conducted in groups, each group receiving a joint partial assessment in the form of a letter grade. The work consists of theoretical preparation, practical implementation and analysis of a servomotor based on analogue circuit components and a DC motor. The practical work takes place under guidance in the lab, and each group is assigned four lab hours per week for the duration of the project. Time for preparation and writing of a lab report is in addition to this. The assessment is based partly on weekly approval of progression and results in the lab, and partly on the form and content of the lab report. Assessment criteria are made known to the students in advance. Each group must submit one lab report, with deadline no earlier than one week after the last lab day.

Each student must complete two to three laboratory assignments; precise number depends on lab capacity and will be announced at the start of the semester. Guided groupwise completion and approval takes place in dedicated lab areas on campus. Each group is assigned four lab hours for each assignment; time for theoretical preparation is in addition to this.

As a main rule, weekly theory exercises are given, of which at least a certain number must be approved to get the mandatory activities approved; exact number required will be announced at the start of the semester. The theory exercises are guided and approved in groups, but the approval is individual, so each student who wants to have an exercise approved must attend the corresponding approval session. Guidance and approval are given either physically in the auditorium, electronically or as a combination; exact arrangements will be announced at the start of the semester.

If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may change from written to oral.

Resit (in case of failure or for improvement of grade) can be done for individual partial assessments without retaking all partial assessments. Mandatory but non-graded activities (laboratory and theory exercises) that have been approved do not need to be retaken.

Required previous knowledge

TTT4203 - Introduction to Analog and Digital Electronics, TTK4123 - Cybernetic Methods or equivalent.

If you have not completed TTT4203 or TTK4123 earlier, you will not be able to register for the course through Studentweb. If you completed a similar course or have otherwise gained equivalent knowledge, the course administrator must be contacted for approval of your registration.

Course materials

Syllabus will be announced at start of semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TTK4125 3 sp Autumn 2017
IELET2106 5 sp Autumn 2020
TPK4125 2 sp Autumn 2022
TTT4280 2 sp Autumn 2025
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Engineering Cybernetics
  • Engineering Subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Engineering Cybernetics